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Graphene, the atomically-thin honeycomb carbon lattice, is a highly conducting 2D material whose exposed electronic structure offers an ideal platform for sensing. Its biocompatible, flexible, and chemically inert nature associated to the…

Electrically injected terahertz (THz) radiation sources are extremely appealing given their versatility and miniaturization potential, opening the venue for integrated-circuit THz technology. In this work, we show that coherent THz…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Pedro Cosme , Hugo Terças

Single-layer graphene exhibits exceptional mechanical properties attractive for optomechanics: it combines low mass density, large tensile modulus, and low bending stiffness. However, at visible wavelengths, graphene absorbs weakly and…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-10 S. Hossein Mousavi , Peter T. Rakich , Zheng Wang

Using a realistic quantum master equation we show that the resonance fluorescence spectra of a two-level artificial atom (quantum dot) can be tuned by adjusting its photonic local density of states via biasing of one or more graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ebrahim Forati , George W. Hanson , Stephen Hughes

Graphene is an ideal 2D material system bridging electronic and photonic devices. It also breaks the fundamental speed and size limits by electronics and photonics, respectively. Graphene offers multiple functions of signal transmission,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-19 Rong Wang , Xingang Ren , Ze Yan , Lijun Jiang , Wei E. I. Sha , Guangcun Shan

Graphene is a single layer of covalently bonded carbon atoms, which was discovered only 8 years ago and yet has already attracted intense research and commercial interest. Initial research focused on its remarkable electronic properties,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-06 Callum J. Docherty , Cheng-Te Lin , Hannah J. Joyce , Robin J. Nicholas , Laura M. Herz , Lain-Jong Li , Michael B. Johnston

We propose the concept of terahertz (THz) photomixing enabled by the interband electron transitions due to the absorption of modulated optical radiation in double-graphene layer (double-GL) structures and the resonant excitation of plasma…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 V. Ryzhii , M. Ryzhii , V. Mitin , M. S. Shur , A. Satou , T. Otsuji

The rapid technological progress in the 21st century demands new multi-functional materials applicable to a wide variety of industries. Two-dimensional (2D) materials are predicted to have a revolutionary impact on the cost, size, weight,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-17 Samira Naghdi , Gonzalo Sanchez-Arriaga , Kyong Yop Rhee

Spatially-resolved organic functionalization of monolayer graphene is successfully achieved by combining low-energy electron beam irradiation with 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of azomethine ylide. Indeed, the modification of the graphene…

For optical communication, information is converted between optical and electrical signal domains at a high rate. The devices to achieve such a conversion are various types of electro-optical modulators and photodetectors. These two types…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Nathan Youngblood , Yoska Anugrah , Rui Ma , Steven J. Koester , Mo Li

It was demonstrated that optical modulation together with simultaneous terahertz (THz) imaging application enables an increase in contrast by an order of magnitude illustrating hence the technique as convenient contactless tool for…

Recent intense electrical and optical studies of graphene have pushed the material to the forefront of optoelectronic research. Of particular interest is the few terahertz (THz) frequency regime where efficient light sources and highly…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-28 Jiayue Tong , Martin Muthee , Shao-Yu Chen , Sigfrid K. Yngvesson , Jun Yan

Graphene exhibits unique material properties and in electromagnetic wave technology, it raises the prospect of devices miniaturized down to the atomic length scale. Here we study split-ring resonator metamaterials made from graphene and we…

We report a highly efficient tunable THz reflector in graphene. By applying a small gate voltage (up to 3 V), the reflectance of graphene is modulated from a minimum of 0.79% to a maximum of 33.4% using graphene/ionic liquid structures at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Yang Wu , Xuepeng Qiu , Hongwei Liu , Jingbo Liu , Yuanfu Chen , Lin Ke , Hyunsoo Yang

A hybrid plasmonic-dielectric metasurface is proposed in order to manipulate beam propagation in desired manners. The metasurface is composed of patterned hybrid graphene-silicon nano-disks deposited on a low-index substrate, namely silica.…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-08 Kamalodin Arik

In heterostructures consisting of atomically thin crystals layered on top of one another, lattice mismatch or rotation between the layers results in long-wavelength moir\'e superlattices. These moir\'e patterns can drive significant band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Nathan R. Finney , Matthew Yankowitz , Lithurshanaa Muraleetharan , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Cory R. Dean , James Hone

Metasurfaces have become one of the most prominent research topics in the field of optics owing to their unprecedented properties and novel applications on an ultrathin platform. By combining graphene with metasurfaces, electrical tunable…

Graphene - a monolayer of carbon atoms densely packed into a hexagonal lattice - has one of the strongest possible atomic bonds and can be viewed as a robust atomic-scale scaffold, to which other chemical species can be attached without…

Exerting well-defined control over the reflection $(R)$, absorption $(A)$, and transmission $(T)$ of electromagnetic waves is a key objective in quantum optics. To this end, one often utilizes hybrid structures comprised of elements with…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-06 Jacob Linder , Klaus Halterman

The unique optoelectronic properties of single layer graphene (SLG) are ideal for the development of photonic devices across a broad range of frequencies, from X-rays to microwaves. In the terahertz (THz) range (0.1-10 THz frequency) this…