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Graphene can support surface plasmons with higher confinement, lower propagation loss, and substantially more tunable response compared to usual metal-based plasmonic structures. Interestingly, plasmons in graphene can strongly couple with…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-03 Tianjing Guo , Christos Argyropoulos

Graphene has shown great potentials for high-speed photodetection. Yet, the responsivities of graphene-based high-speed photodetectors are commonly limited by the weak effective absorption of atomically thin graphene. Here, we propose and…

We demonstrate a graphene-based Salisbury screen consisting of a single layer of graphene placed in close proximity to a gold back reflector. The light absorption in the screen can be actively tuned by electrically gating the carrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-09 Vrinda Thareja , Juhyung Kang , Hongtao Yuan , Kaveh M. Milaninia , Harold Y. Hwang , Yi Cui , Mark L. Brongersma

We show that surface-plasmon polaritons excited in negative permittivity metamaterials having shallow periodic surface corrugation profiles can be explored to push the absorption of single and continuous sheets of graphene up to 100%. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 A. Ferreira , N. M. R. Peres

We propose a tunable coherent perfect absorber based on ultrathin nonlinear metasurfaces. The nonlinear metasurface is made of plasmonic nanoantennas coupled to an epsilon-near-zero material with a large optical nonlinearity. The coherent…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-30 Rasoul Alaee , Yaswant Vaddi , Robert W. Boyd

We exploited graphene nanoribbons based meta-surface to realize coherent perfect absorption (CPA) in the mid-infrared regime. It was shown that quasi-CPA frequencies, at which CPA can be demonstrated with proper phase modulations, exist for…

The observation and electrical manipulation of infrared surface plasmons in graphene have triggered a search for similar photonic capabilities in other atomically thin materials that enable electrical modulation of light at visible and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 F. Javier Garcia de Abajo , Alejandro Manjavacas

Graphene plasmons are rapidly emerging as a viable tool for fast electrical manipulation of light. The prospects for applications to electro-optical modulation, optical sensing, quantum plasmonics, light harvesting, spectral photometry, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-20 F. Javier Garcia de Abajo

Graphene-based devices have shown great promise for several applications. For graphene devices to be used in real-world systems, it is necessary to demonstrate competitive device performance, repeatability of results, reliability, and a…

Singular graphene metasurfaces, conductivity gratings realized by periodically suppressing the local doping level of a graphene sheet, have recently been proposed to efficiently harvest THz light and couple it to surface plasmons over broad…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 E. Galiffi , P. A. Huidobro , P. A. D. Gonçalves , N. A. Mortensen , J. B. Pendry

Periodic metallic structures are known to support resonant extraordinary transmission (EOT). When covered with graphene, these structures can be employed to effectively manipulate the light. In this work, we propose an analytical circuit…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-04 Amirmasood Bagheri , Babak Rahmani , Amin Khavasi

Graphene is promising for nanoscale, efficient, ultra-fast photo- and opto-electronic devices because of its remarkable electrical and optical properties, such as fast electron relaxation and heat dissipation. Here, we realize…

Graphene photonics has emerged as a promising platform for providing desirable optical functionality. However, graphene's monolayer-scale thickness fundamentally restricts the available light matter interaction, posing a critical design…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-11 PoHan Chang , Charles Lin , Amr S. Helmy

We investigate the design and performance of a new multilayer graphene metasurface for achieving ultrabroadband coherent perfect absorption (CPA) in the THz regime. The proposed structure comprises of three graphene patterned metasurfaces…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-30 Wei Zou , Tianjing Guo , Christos Argyropoulos

Graphene is known to possess strong optical nonlinearity. Its nonlinear response can be further enhanced by graphene plasmons. Here, we report a novel nonlinear electro-absorption effect observed in nanostructured graphene due to excitation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 D. Kundys , B. Van Duppen , O. P. Marshall , F. Rodriguez , I. Torre , A. Tomadin , M. Polini , A. N. Grigorenko

We demonstrate a dynamic surface plasmonic modulation of graphene-nanowire hybrid structures in visible light range, which was thought to be a tough task for graphene based field effect transistor modulator previously. Static modulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-02 Haoliang Qian , Yaoguang Ma , Qing Yang , Bigeng Chen , Ying Liu , Xin Guo , Shisheng Lin , Jili Ruan , Xu Liu , Limin Tong , Zhong Lin Wang

Nanoscale photothermal sources find important applications in theranostics, imaging, and catalysis. In this context, graphene offers a unique suite of optical, electrical, and thermal properties, which we exploit to show self-consistent…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-08 Renwen Yu , Qiushi Guo , Fengnian Xia , F. Javier García de Abajo

Amongst the wide spectrum of potential applications of graphene, ranging from transistors and chemical-sensors to nanoelectromechanical devices and composites, the field of photonics and optoelectronics is believed to be one of the most…

We present an asymmetric bifacial graphene metasurface to realize tunable and broadband coherent perfect absorption (CPA) at terahertz (THz) frequencies. The proposed design is composed of two dissimilar graphene square patch metasurfaces…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-06 Tianjing Guo , Christos Argyropoulos

Perfect, narrow-band absorption is achieved in an asymmetric 1D photonic crystal with a monolayer graphene defect. Thanks to the large third order nonlinearity of graphene and field localization in the defect layer we demonstrate the…

Optics · Physics 2013-06-20 M. A. Vincenti , D. de Ceglia , M. Grande , A. D'Orazio , M. Scalora