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Optics is a promising platform in which to help realise the next generation of fast, parallel and energy-efficient computation. We demonstrate a reconfigurable free-space optical multiplier that is capable of over 3000 computations in…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-23 James Spall , Xianxin Guo , Thomas D. Barrett , A. I. Lvovsky

Many of the properties of graphene are tied to its lattice structure, allowing for tuning of charge carrier dynamics through mechanical strain. The graphene electro-mechanical coupling yields very large pseudomagnetic fields for small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Shuze Zhu , Joseph A. Stroscio , Teng Li

Graphene is an atomically thin metallic membrane capable of sustaining reversible strain and offers a tempting prospect of controlling its optoelectronic properties via strain. Graphenes exceptional mechanical flexibility and tensile…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-06 Paul Froeter , Parsian Moseni , Apratim Khandelwal , Xiuling Li

In nanofabrication, just as in any other craft, the scale of spatial details is limited by the dimensions of the tool at hand. For example, the smallest details for direct laser writing with far-field light are set by the diffraction limit,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Pekka Koskinen , Karoliina Karppinen , Pasi Myllyperkiö , Vesa-Matti Hiltunen , Andreas Johansson , Mika Pettersson

Graphene has recently been shown to possess giant nonlinearity; however, the utility of this nonlinearity is limited due to high losses and small interaction volume. We show that by performing waveguide engineering to graphene's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-19 Kelvin J. A. Ooi , Lay Kee Ang , Dawn T. H. Tan

Optical metasurfaces have been enabling reduced footprint and power consumption, as well as faster speeds, in the context of analog computing and image processing. While various image processing and optical computing functionalities have…

An analysis of electron transport in graphene is presented in the presence of various arrangement of delta-function like magnetic barriers. The motion through one such barrier gives an unusual non specular refraction leading to asymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-09 Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

Nonlinear metasurfaces are multifunctional photonic elements that generate and control light, enabling multiple proof-of-principle applications, such as in nonlinear holography, beam shaping, and nanoscale sources of entangled photon pairs.…

We present a graphene-based metasurface that can be actively tuned between different regimes of operation, such as anomalous beam steering and focusing, cloaking and illusion optics, by applying electrostatic gating without modifying the…

Graphene is being increasingly used as an interesting transducer membrane in micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS, respectively) due to its atomical thickness, extremely high carrier mobility, high mechanical strength and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Xuge Fan , Chang He , Jie Ding , Qiang Gao , Hongliang Ma , Max C. Lemme , Wendong Zhang

The active photonics based on the two-dimensional material graphene has attracted enormous interests for developing the tunable and compact optical devices with high efficiency. Here we integrate graphene into the Fano-resonant…

Undoped graphene is semi-metallic and thus not suitable for many electronic and optoelectronic applications requiring gapped semiconductor materials. However, a periodic array of holes (antidot lattice) renders graphene semiconducting with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-24 Thomas G. Pedersen , Christian Flindt , Jesper Pedersen , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Niels Asger Mortensen , Kjeld Pedersen

Advances in graphene plasmonics offer numerous opportunities for enabling the design and manufacture of a variety of nanoelectronics and other exciting optical devices. However, due to the limitation of material properties, its operating…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 Li-Zheng Yin , Tie-Jun Huang , Di Wang , Pu-Kun Liu

Neuromorphic chip refers to an unconventional computing architecture that is modelled on biological brains. It is ideally suited for processing sensory data for intelligence computing, decision-making or context cognition. Despite rapid…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Shuchao Qin , Fengqiu Wang , Yujie Liu , Qing Wan , Xinran Wang , Yongbing Xu , Yi Shi , Xiaomu Wang , Rong Zhang

The speed of silicon-based transistors has reached an impasse in the recent decade, primarily due to scaling techniques and the short-channel effect. Conversely, graphene (a revolutionary new material possessing an atomic thickness) has…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-03 K. C. Yung , W. M. Wu , M. P. Pierpoint , F. V. Kusmartsev

Graphene is at the centre of an ever growing research effort due to its unique properties, interesting for both fundamental science and applications. A key requirement for applications is the development of industrial-scale, reliable,…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-18 F. Bonaccorso , A. Lombardo , T. Hasan , Z. Sun , L. Colombo , A. C. Ferrari

Graphene supported on a substrate in contact with water underpins a wide range of processes and technologies, yet its wettability remains controversial. Understanding how substrate charges and graphene's properties influence water…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Yongkang Wang , Yair Litman , Minhaeng Cho , Stephen Cox , Mischa Bonn

There has been a resurgence of interest in optical computing over the past decade, both in academia and in industry, with much of the excitement centered around special-purpose optical computers for neural-network processing. Optical…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-10 Peter L. McMahon

The interaction between graphene and substrates provides a viable routes to enhance functionality of both materials. Depending on the nature of electronic interaction at the interface, the electron band structure of graphene is strongly…

Metasurfaces have revolutionized the design concepts for opticalcomponents, fostering an excitingfield offlat optics. Thanks to theflat and ultrathinnature, metasurfaces possess unique advantages over conventional optical components,such as…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-03 Jianxiong Li , Ping Yu , Shuang Zhang , Na Liu