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Graphene is widely recognized for its ultrafast and broadband photocurrent response, but whether the broadband ultrafast characteristics are preserved at mid-infrared wavelengths with photon energies below the optical phonon energy remains…

We obtained numerical and closed-form analytic expressions for finite-temperature plasmon dispersion relations for intrinsic graphene in the presence of a finite energy gap in the energy spectrum. The calculations were carried out using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-20 Andrii Iurov , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , V. Silkin

Graphene is a unique material to study fundamental limits of plasmonics. Apart from the ultimate single-layer thickness, its carrier concentration can be tuned by chemical doping or applying an electric field. In this manner the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 Dmitry A. Kuzmin , Igor V. Bychkov , Vladimir G. Shavrov , Vasily V. Temnov

We theoretically study a doped graphene ribbon suspended over a trench and subject to an ac-electrical field polarized perpendicularly to the graphene plane. In such a system, the external ac-field is coupled to the relatively slow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Axel M. Eriksson , Leonid Y. Gorelik

We discuss the renormalization of the polarizability of a nanoparticle in the presence of either (i) a continuous graphene sheet or (ii) a plasmonic graphene grating, taking into account retardation effects. Our analysis demonstrates that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Bruno Amorim , P. A. D. Gonçalves , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. M. R. Peres

The nonlinear optical and optoelectronic properties of graphene with the emphasis on the processes of harmonic generation, frequency mixing, photon drag and photogalvanic effects as well as generation of photocurrents due to coherent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 M. M. Glazov , S. D. Ganichev

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

Diffusion and drift of a graphene flake on a graphite surface are analyzed. A potential energy relief of the graphene flake is computed using ab initio and empirical calculations. Based on the analysis of this relief, different mechanisms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Irina V. Lebedeva , Andrey A. Knizhnik , Andrey M. Popov , Olga V. Ershova , Yurii E. Lozovik , Boris V. Potapkin

The propagation of electromagnetic waves along the surface of a nonlinear dielectric covered by a graphene layer is investigated. The main result is that such a surface can support and stabilize nonlinear transverse electric (TE) plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-30 Yuliy V. Bludov , Daria A. Smirnova , Yuri S. Kivshar , Nuno M. R. Peres , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy

One of the factors limiting electron mobility in supported graphene is remote phonon scattering. We formulate the theory of the coupling between graphene plasmon and substrate surface polar phonon (SPP) modes, and find that it leads to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zhun-Yong Ong , Massimo V. Fischetti

We review the transmission of Dirac electrons through a potential barrier in the presence of circularly polarized light. A different type of transmission is demonstrated and explained. Perfect transmission for nearly head-on collision in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Andrii Iurov , Bo Gao

Plasmons produce large confinement and enhancement of light that enable applications as varied as cancer therapy and catalysis. Adding to these appealing properties, graphene has emerged as a robust, electrically tunable material exhibiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-20 Alejandro Manjavacas , Sukosin Thongrattanasiri , F. Javier Garcia de Abajo

The Josephson current is investigated in a superconducting graphene bilayer where pristine graphene sheets can make in-plane or out-of-plane displacements with respect to each other. The superconductivity can be of an intrinsic nature, or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 Mohammad Alidoust , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Jaakko Akola

Nonuniform strain distributions in a graphene lattice can give rise to uniform pseudomagnetic fields and associated pseudo-Landau levels without breaking time-reversal symmetry. We demonstrate that by inducing superconductivity in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 Shu-Ping Lee , Debaleena Nandi , Frank Marsiglio , Joseph Maciejko

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

In mechanical systems, Maxwell-Betti reciprocity means that the displacement at point B in response to a force at point A is the same as the displacement at point A in response to the same force applied at point B. Because the notion of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-25 Duc Tam Ho , Harold Park , Sung Youb Kim

We investigate the impact of nonlocality, owing to diffusive behavior, on transverse instabilities of a dark stripe propagating in a defocusing cubic medium. The nonlocal response turns out to have a strongly stabilizing effect both in the…

Optics · Physics 2012-02-02 Andrea Armaroli , Andrea Fratalocchi , Stefano Trillo

Ab initio density functional theory (DFT) simulations were used to investigate an influence of electric field, parallel to single and multilayer graphene on its electron dispersion relations close to K point. It was shown that for both…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-09 Stanisław Krukowski , Jakub Sołtys , Jolanta Borysiuk , Jacek Piechota

Localized plasmons in metallic nanostructures have been widely used to enhance nonlinear optical effects due to their ability to concentrate and enhance light down to extreme-subwavelength scales. As alternatives to noble metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Joel D. Cox , F. Javier Garcia de Abajo

Localized states in graphene have garnered significant attention in quantum information science due to their potential applications. Despite graphene's superior transport and electronic properties compared to other semiconductors, achieving…

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