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We have theoretically studied a graphene-based plasmonic waveguide, which can gate the transmission of a surface plasmon polariton (SPP) localized at the graphene-semiconductor interface. When a gate voltage is applied above a certain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-27 Kyungsun Moon , Suk-Young Park

Graphene supports surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) with extreme field confinement and electrical tunability, but these waves are typically short-lived due to ohmic loss in the sheet. We show that embedding graphene in an active dielectric…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-24 Andrianos Sygrimis , Giorgos P. Tsironis

We analyze theoretically the propagation of surface plasmon polaritons about a metallic corner with a finite bend radius, using a one-dimensional model analogous to the scattering from a finite-depth potential well. We obtain expressions…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Keisuke Hasegawa , Jens U. Noeckel , Miriam Deutsch

We discuss the properties of surface plasmons-polaritons in graphene and describe three possible ways of coupling electromagnetic radiation in the terahertz (THz) spectral range to this type of surface waves. (i) the attenuated total…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-18 Yu. V. Bludov , A. Ferreira , N. M. R. Peres , M. I. Vasilevskiy

In this paper, we predict the existence of low-frequency nonlocal plasmon excitations at the vacuum-surface interface of a superlattice of $N$ graphene layers interacting with a thick conducting substrate. This is different from graphite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Jhao-Ying Wu , M. F. Lin , Paula Fekete

We theoretically investigate under which conditions nonlocal plasmon response in monolayer graphene can be detected. To this purpose, we study optical scattering off graphene plasmon resonances coupled using a subwavelength dielectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Tobias Wenger , Giovanni Viola , Philippe Tassin , Mikael Fogelström , Jari Kinaret

Using numerical simulations, here we demonstrate that a single sheet of graphene with properly designed inhomogeneous, nonuniform conductivity distributions can act as a convex lens for focusing and collimating the transverse-magnetic (TM)…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ashkan Vakil , Nader Engheta

The practical applications of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) require the deep understanding of the impact of electrical characteristics variability and geometrical irregularity of the metal-dielectric interface. Traditional methods in…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-10 Yu. V. Tarasov , O. M. Stadnyk

By using numerical and analytical methods, we describe the generation of fine-scale lateral electromagnetic waves, called surface plasmon-polaritons (SPPs), on atomically thick, metamaterial conducting sheets in two spatial dimensions (2D).…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-02-06 Matthias Maier , Dionisios Margetis , Mitchell Luskin

This paper aims to investigate the conditions necessary to control, enhance, and modify the propagation length of graphene surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) at room temperature, using an all-dielectric metamaterial substrate in comparison…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-07 Zoya Eremenko , Igor Volovichev

In this article, an analytical model is proposed for the study of Transverse-electric (TE) surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in nonlinear multi-layer graphene-based waveguides. Each graphene sheet has been located between two different…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-06 Mohammad Bagher Heydari

The condition of phase matching prohibits the transfer of excitation from free-space photons to surface plasmon polaritons (SPP). We propose and analyze a scheme that excites an ensemble of emitters in a collective state, which is phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-21 Yu-Xiang Zhang , Yuan Zhang , Klaus Mølmer

We show that the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) radiation patterns of point-dipole emitters in the vicinity of a metal-dielectric interface are generally asymmetric with respect to the location of the emitter. In particular rotating…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-02 J. P. Balthasar Mueller , Federico Capasso

Channeling surface plasmon-polaritons to control their propagation direction is of the utmost importance for future optoelectronic devices. Here, we develop an effective-index method to describe and characterize the properties of 2D…

Screened plasmon properties of graphene near a perfect electric conductor are investigated using classical electrodynamics and a linearized hydrodynamic model that includes Fermi correction. A general expression for the dispersion relation…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-08 Afshin Moradi , Nurhan Turker Tokan

We develop a novel theoretical framework describing polariton-enhanced spin-orbit interaction of light on the surface of two-dimensional media. Starting from the integral formulation of electromagnetic scattering, we exploit the reduced…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-30 A. Ciattoni , C. Rizza , H. W. H. Lee , C. Conti , A. Marini

The properties of surface plasmons localized at the interface between graphene and kerr-type nonlinear medium in three dimensions are investigated. Compared with surface plasmons at the surface of metal, with the inevitable nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lei Wang , Wei Cai , Xinzheng Zhang , F. J. Garcia de Abajo , Jingjun Xu

The phase picked up by a graphene plasmon upon scattering by an abrupt edge is commonly assumed to be $-\pi$. Here, it is demonstrated that for high plasmon momenta this reflection phase is $\approx -3\pi/4$, virtually independent on either…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Yu. Nikitin , T. Low , L. Martin-Moreno

Surface plasmon polaritons (SSP), moving along a smooth curved interface between two isotropic media with slowly varying dielectric permittivities and magnetic permeabilities and supporting SSP, are studied theoretically. Solutions of…

Optics · Physics 2011-04-20 Maria V. Perel , Dmitry Yu. Zaika

This paper presents an analytical study of TM-polarized surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in nonlinear multi-layer structures containing graphene sheets. In the general structure, each graphene sheet has been sandwiched between two…