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Thermal radiation can be substantially enhanced in the near-field scenario due to the tunneling of evanescent waves. The monolayer graphene could play a vital role in this process owning to its strong infrared plasmonic response, however,…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-05 Jiang Yang , Yishu Su , Yang Fu , Shaoxiang Gong , Wei Du , Sailing He , Yungui Ma

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…

Control over the spontaneous emission of light through tailored optical environments remains a fundamental paradigm in nanophotonics. The use of highly-confined plasmons in materials such as graphene provides a promising platform to enhance…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-14 Jamison Sloan , Nicholas Rivera , Marin Soljačić , Ido Kaminer

Plasmonics takes advantage of the collective response of electrons to electromagnetic waves, enabling dramatic scaling of optical devices beyond the diffraction limit. Here, we demonstrate the mid-infrared (4 to 15 microns) plasmons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-16 Hugen Yan , Tony Low , Wenjuan Zhu , Yanqing Wu , Marcus Freitag , Xuesong Li , Francisco Guinea , Phaedon Avouris , Fengnian Xia

The dispersion relation for the collective plasma excitations of optically dressed Dirac electrons in single and double graphene layers is calculated in the random-phase approximation. The presence of circularly polarized light gives rise…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Oleksiy Roslyak , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

It is very interesting to bring plasmonic circular dichroism spectroscopy to the mid-infrared spectral interval, and there are two reasons for this. This spectral interval is very important for thermal bio-imaging and, simultaneously, this…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-08 Xiang-Tian Kong , Runbo Zhao , Zhiming Wang , Alexander O. Govorov

Graphene plasmons are rapidly emerging as a viable tool for fast electrical manipulation of light. The prospects for applications to electro-optical modulation, optical sensing, quantum plasmonics, light harvesting, spectral photometry, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-20 F. Javier Garcia de Abajo

In the framework of full Maxwell equations, we systematically study the electromagnetic radiation, namely the transition radiation, when a swift electron perpendicularly crosses a monolayer graphene. Based on the plane wave expansion and…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-03 Jialin Chen , Hongsheng Chen , Xiao Lin

Graphene plasmons have recently attracted a great deal of attention because of their tunability, long lifetime, and high degree of field confinement in the vertical direction. Nearby metal gates have been shown to modify the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Alessandro Principi , Erik van Loon , Marco Polini , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

In this paper, we calculated the dielectric function, the loss function, the magnetoplasmon dispersion relation and the temperature-induced transitions for graphene in a uniform perpendicular magnetic field B. The calculations were…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-14 Jhao-Ying Wu , Szu-Chao Chen , Oleksiy Roslyak , Godfrey Gumbs , Ming-Fa Lin

We report mid-infrared photocurrent spectra of graphene nanoribbon arrays on SiO2 dielectrics showing dual signatures of the substrate interaction. First, hybrid polaritonic modes of graphene plasmons and dielectric surface polar phonons…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-18 Marcus Freitag , Tony Low , Luis Martin-Moreno , Wenjuan Zhu , Francisco Guinea , Phaedon Avouris

Electronic control of blackbody emission from graphene plasmonic resonators on a silicon nitride substrate is demonstrated at temperatures up to 250 C. It is shown that the graphene resonators produce antenna-coupled blackbody radiation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Victor W. Brar , Michelle C. Sherrott , Luke A. Sweatlock , Min Seok Jang , Laura Kim , Mansoo Choi , Harry A. Atwater

High level of dissipation in normal metals makes challenging development of active and passive plasmonic devices. One possible solution to this problem is to use alternative materials. Graphene is a good candidate for plasmonics in near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Yu. E. Lozovik , I. A. Nechepurenko , A. V. Dorofeenko , E. S. Andrianov , N. M. Chtchelkatchev , A. A Pukhov

We point out that plasmons in doped graphene simultaneously enable low-losses and significant wave localization for frequencies below that of the optical phonon branch $\hbar\omega_{Oph}\approx 0.2$ eV. Large plasmon losses occur in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Marinko Jablan , Hrvoje Buljan , Marin Soljačić

At low energy, electrons in doped graphene sheets behave like massless Dirac fermions with a Fermi velocity which does not depend on carrier density. Here we show that modulating a two-dimensional electron gas with a long-wavelength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 M. Gibertini , A. Singha , V. Pellegrini , M. Polini , G. Vignale , A. Pinczuk , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

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

The interband pi and pi+sigma plasmons in pristine graphene and the Dirac plasmon in doped graphene are not applicable, since they are broad or weak, and weakly couple to an external longitudinal or electromagnetic probe. Therefore, the ab…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-13 Vito Despoja , Leonardo Marušić

When the Fermi level matches the Dirac point in graphene, the reduced charge screening can dramatically enhance electron-electron (e-e) scattering to produce a strongly interacting Dirac liquid. While the dominance of e-e scattering already…

This work analyzes the emission and radiation properties of a single optical emitter embedded in a graphene-coated subwavelength wire. We discuss the modifications of the spontaneous emission rate and the radiation efficiency as a function…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-23 Mauro Cuevas

We employ tip-enhanced infrared near-field microscopy to study the plasmonic properties of epitaxial quasi-free-standing monolayer graphene on silicon carbide. The near-field images reveal propagating graphene plasmons, as well as a strong…