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We theoretically investigate the second harmonic generation and photon drag effect induced by an incident plane wave to a doped graphene placed on a two-dimensional diffraction grating. The relevant nonlinear conductivity of the graphene is…

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We theoretically consider the effect of plasmon collective modes on the frequency-dependent conductivity of graphene in the presence of the random static potential of charged impurities. We develop an equation of motion approach suitable…

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Van der Waals heterostructures display a rich variety of unique electronic properties. To identify novel transport mechanisms, nonlocal measurements have been widely used, wherein a voltage is measured at contacts placed far away from the…

We consider the near-field radiative energy transfer between two separated parallel plates: graphene supported by a substrate and a magneto-optic medium. We first study the scenario in which the two plates have the same temperature. An…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-14 Gaomin Tang , Lei Zhang , Yong Zhang , Jun Chen , C. T. Chan

We introduce the concept of nonlinear graphene metasurfaces employing the controllable interaction between a graphene layer and a planar metamaterial. Such hybrid metasurfaces support two types of subradiant resonant modes, asymmetric modes…

We study nonlinear modes in one-dimensional arrays of doped graphene nanodisks with Kerr-type nonlinear response in the presence of an external electric field. We present the theoretical model describing the evolution of the disks'…

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…

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The concept, analysis, and design of series switches for graphene-strip plasmonic waveguides at near infrared frequencies are presented. Switching is achieved by using graphene's field effect to selectively enable or forbid propagation on a…

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Flexoelectricity phenomenon is the response of electric polarization to an applied strain gradient and is developed as a consequence of crystal symmetry in all materials. In this study, we show that the presence of strain gradient in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 S. I. Kundalwal , S. A. Meguid , G. J. Weng

The electromagnetic response of subwavelength wires coated with a graphene monolayer illuminated by a linearly polarized plane waves is investigated. The results show that the scattering and extintion cross-sections of the coated wire can…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Máximo Riso , Mauro Cuevas , Ricardo A. Depine

A novel broadband technique to effectively launch plasmons along a single graphene layer at terahertz (THz) frequencies is proposed. To this end, the coupling of the electromagnetic wave from a readily available plasmonic waveguide…

Optics · Physics 2014-04-08 Mohammad Ali Khorrami , Samir El-Ghazaly

Large photon drag effect of the massless Dirac Fermions in intrinsic graphene is predicted for a graphene-on-plasmonic-layer system. The surface plasmons in the plasmonic layer enlarge the wave number of photon for hundreds of time of that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Ma Luo , Zhibing Li

We analyze nonlinear optics schemes for generating pairs of quantum entangled plasmons in the terahertz-infrared range in graphene. We predict that high plasmonic field concentration and strong optical nonlinearity of monolayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Zhiyuan Sun , D. N. Basov , M. M. Fogler

Quantum confinement of graphene carriers is an effective way to engineer its properties. It is commonly realized through physical edges that are associated with the deterioration of mobility and strong suppression of plasmon resonances.…

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…

Graphene plasmons were predicted to possess ultra-strong field confinement and very low damping at the same time, enabling new classes of devices for deep subwavelength metamaterials, single-photon nonlinearities, extraordinarily strong…

We continue the study of surface corrugations influence on the monolayer graphene local electromagnetic response in terahertz range we started earlier. The effects of radiative decay, double-valley structure of charge carriers spectrum in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yu. A. Firsov , N. E. Firsova

Monolayer graphene with an energy gap presents a pseudospin symmetry broken ferromagnet with a perpendicular pseudomagnetization whose direction is switched by altering the type of doping between n and p. We demonstrate an electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Leyla Majidi , Malek Zareyan

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