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By using a non-local, quantum mechanical response function we study graphene plasmons in a one-dimensional superlattice (SL) potential $V_0 \cos G_0x$. The SL introduces a quantum energy scale $E_G \sim \hbar v_F G_0$ associated to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-25 Luis Brey , T. Stauber , L. Martín-Moreno , G. Gómez-Santos

In this paper, we proposed a theoretical model in the far-infrared and terahertz (THz) bands, which is a dumbbell-shaped graphene metamaterial arrays with a combination of graphene nanorod and two semisphere-suspended heads. We report a…

Epitaxial graphene mesas and ribbons are investigated using terahertz (THz) nearfield microscopy to probe surface plasmon excitation and THz transmission properties on the sub-wavelength scale. The THz near-field images show variation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Oleg Mitrofanov , Wenlong Yu , Robert J. Thompson , Yuxuan Jiang , Igal Brener , Wei Pan , Claire Berger , Walter A. de Heer , Zhigang Jiang

In the present paper, using Pseudo-Quantum Electrodynamics to describe the interaction between electrons in graphene, we investigate the longitudinal and optical conductivities of a neutral graphene sheet near a grounded perfectly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-04 D. C. Pedrelli , D. T. Alves , V. S. Alves

Plasmons --the collective oscillations of electrons in conducting materials-- play a pivotal role in nanophotonics because of their ability to couple electronic and photonic degrees of freedom. In particular, plasmons in graphene --the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-08 Renwen Yu , F. Javier García de Abajo

We study the electromagnetic properties of a metamaterial consisting of polarizable (nano)particles and a single graphene sheet placed at the interface between two dielectrics. We show that the particle's polarizability is renormalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Jaime E. Santos , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. M. R. Peres , G. Smirnov , Yu. V. Bludov

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

A hybrid structure of a graphene nanomesh with the gold nanodisks is studied to enhance the light absorption by localized surface plasmon resonance. From the reflection spectra of the visible range for graphene nanomesh samples without and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-02 Yang Wu , Jing Niu , Mohammad Danesh , Jingbo Liu , Yuanfu Chen , Lin Ke , Chengwei Qiu , Hyunsoo Yang

Plasmon in graphene possesses many unique properties. It originates from the collective motion of massless Dirac fermions and the carrier density dependence is distinctively different from conventional plasmons. In addition, graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Shenyang Huang , Chaoyu Song , Guowei Zhang , Hugen Yan

Plasmon oscillations have been intensively studied for more than forty years in conventional two-dimensional electron gas systems in order to find new alternatives to the vacuum devices based on the Smith-Purcell effect in the far-infrared…

Absorption of terahertz waves by a metasurface comprising a biperiodic array of pixellated meta-atoms on top of a dielectric substrate backed by a perfect electric conductor was simulated using a commercial software, with either all or a…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-12 Pankaj Kumar , Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Pradip K. Jain

The optical nonlinear effects can provide different advanced electromagnetic functionalities, such as wave mixing and phase conjugation, which can be applied in a variety of new applications. However, these effects usually suffer from…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-29 Boyuan Jin , Christos Argyropoulos

We develop a theory to model the interaction of graphene substrate with localized plasmon resonances in metallic nanoparticles. The influence of a graphene substrate on the surface plasmon resonances is described using an effective…

Graphene, a one-atom thick zero gap semiconductor [1, 2], has been attracting an increasing interest due to its remarkable physical properties ranging from an electron spectrum resembling relativistic dynamics [3-12] to ballistic transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 T. O. Wehling , K. S. Novoselov , S. V. Morozov , E. E. Vdovin , M. I. Katsnelson , A. K. Geim , A. I. Lichtenstein

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

We experimentally demonstrate graphene-plasmon polariton excitation in a continuous graphene monolayer resting on a two-dimensional subwavelength silicon grating. The subwavelength silicon grating is fabricated by a nanosphere lithography…

The study is devoted to development and optimization of a metasurface-based sensor with graphene constituents for potential biosensing applications. A unit cell of the proposed metasurface consists of a thin flexible dielectric substrate…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-12 K. S. Kuznetsova , V. A. Pashynska , Z. E. Eremenko

Graphene-based plasmonic devices are regarded to be suitable for a plethora of applications, ranging from mid-infrared to terahertz frequencies. In this regard, among the peculiarities associated with graphene, it is well known that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Karina A. Guerrero-Becerra , Remo Proietti Zaccaria

This work analyses how impurities and vacancies on the surface of a graphene sample affect its optical conductivity and plasmon excitations. The disorder is analysed in the self-consistent Green's function formulation and nonlocal effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Giovanni Viola , Tobias Wenger , Jari Kinaret , Mikael Fogelström

Graphene offers a possibility for actively controlling plasmon confinement and propagation by tailoring its spatial conductivity pattern. However, implementation of this concept has been hampered because uncontrollable plasmon reflection is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 Ngoc Han Tu , Katsumasa Yoshioka , Satoshi Sasaki , Makoto Takamura , Koji Muraki , Norio Kumada