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We demonstrate the coexistence of pseudospin- and valley-Hall-like edge states in a photonic crystal with $C_{3v}$ symmetry, which is composed of three interlacing triangular sublattices with the same lattice constants. By tuning the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-05 Menglin L. N. Chen , Li Jun Jiang , Zhihao Lan , Wei E. I. Sha

The extensive research of two-dimensional layered materials has revealed that valleys, as energy extrema in momentum space, could offer a new degree of freedom for carrying information. Based on this concept, researchers have predicted…

We propose a two-dimensional plasmonic platform - periodically patterned monolayer graphene - which hosts topological one-way edge states operable up to infrared frequencies. We classify the band topology of this plasmonic system under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Dafei Jin , Thomas Christensen , Marin Soljačić , Nicholas X. Fang , Ling Lu , Xiang Zhang

Plasma photonic crystals designed in this paper are composed of gas discharge tubes to control the flow of electromagnetic waves. The band structures calculated by the finite element method are consistent with the experimental results in…

Enhancing light-matter interaction by exciting Dirac plasmons on nanopatterned monolayer graphene is an efficient route to achieve high infrared absorption. Here, we designed and fabricated the hexagonal planar arrays of nanohole and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Alireza Safaei , Sayan Chandra , Michael N. Leuenberger , Debashis Chanda

Valley-contrast physics has gained considerable attention, particularly for realizing photonic topological insulators (PTIs) that support reflection-free valley-polarized edge modes (VPEMs) in the absence of inter-valley scattering. It is…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-19 Dia'aaldin Bisharat , Dan Sievenpiper

Valley photonic crystal (VPhC) waveguides have attracted much attention because of their ability to enable robust light propagation against sharp bends. However, their demonstration using a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor…

The ability to effectively guide electromagnetic radiation below the diffraction limit is of the utmost importance in the prospect of all-optical plasmonic circuitry. Here, we propose an alternative solution to conventional metal-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 P. A. D. Gonçalves , E. J. C. Dias , Sanshui Xiao , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. Asger Mortensen , N. M. R. Peres

Surface plasmon polaritons enable light concentration within subwavelength regions, opening thereby new avenues for miniaturizing the device and strengthening light-matter interactions. Here we realize effective electro-optic modulation in…

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

Topological photonic edge states are conventionally formed at the interface between two domains of topologically trivial and nontrivial photonic crystals. Recent works exploiting photonic quantum Hall and quantum valley Hall effects have…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-26 Zhihao Lan , Menglin L. N. Chen , Jian Wei You , Wei E. I. Sha

Valley-Hall-like second-order photonic topological insulators are designed in Kagome-lattice photonic crystals with C3v point-group symmetry. The photonic crystal consists of circular air holes in pure dielectric materials. Different from…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-02 Le Zhang

We show analytically that the ability of Dirac materials to localize an electron in both a barrier and a well can be utilized to open a pseudo-gap in graphene's spectrum. By using narrow top-gates as guiding potentials, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 R. R. Hartmann , M. E. Portnoi

The gate-controllable complex conductivity of graphene offers unprecedented opportunities for reconfigurable plasmonics at THz and mid-IR frequencies. However, the requirement of a gating electrode close to graphene and the single `control…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 J. S. Gomez-Diaz , C. Moldovan , S. Capdevilla , J. Romeu , L. S. Bernard , A. Magrez , A. M. Ionescu , J. Perruisseau-Carrier

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…

Realizations of some topological phases in two-dimensional systems rely on the challenge of jointly incorporating spin-orbit and magnetic exchange interactions. Here, we predict the formation and control of a fully valley-polarized quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 Marc Vila , Jose H. Garcia , Stephan Roche

It is known that the lowest propagating mode in a narrow ballistic ribbon of graphene may lack the twofold valley degeneracy of higher modes. Depending on the crystallographic orientation of the ribbon axis, the lowest mode mixes both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Rycerz , J. Tworzydlo , C. W. J. Beenakker

Plasmonic, as a rapidly growing research field, provides new pathways to guide and modulate highly confined light in the microwave to the optical range of frequencies. We demonstrate a plasmonic slot waveguide, at the nanometer scale, based…

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

The strong light-matter interaction in graphene over a broad frequency range has opened up a plethora of photonics applications of graphene. The goal of this paper is to present the voltage tunability of plasmons in gated single- and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-20 Shaloo Rakheja , Parijat Sengupta