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Phase diffusion represents a crucial obstacle towards the implementation of high precision interferometric measurements and phase shift based communication channels. Here we present a nearly optimal interferometric scheme based on homodyne…

High-energy (1-100 keV) electrons can coherently couple to plasmonic and dielectric nanostructures creating cathodoluminescence (CL) of which the spectral features reveal details of the material's resonant modes at deep-subwavelength…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-10 N. J. Schilder , H. Agrawal , E. C. Garnett , A. Polman

Graphene's optical properties in the infrared and terahertz can be tailored and enhanced by patterning graphene into periodic metamaterials with sub-wavelength feature sizes. Here we demonstrate polarization sensitive and gate tunable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-05 Marcus Freitag , Tony Low , Wenjuan Zhu , Hugen Yan , Fengnian Xia , Phaedon Avouris

An electron beam traversing a structured plasmonic field is shown to undergo diffraction with characteristic angular patterns of both elastic and inelastic outgoing electron components. In particular, a plasmonic {\it grating} (e.g., a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 F. Javier Garcia de Abajo , Brett Barwick , Fabrizio Carbone

The great potential of Dirac electrons for plasmonics and photonics has been readily recognized after their discovery in graphene, followed by applications to smart optical devices. Dirac carriers are also found in topological insulators…

The terahertz detection performance and operating regimes of graphene plasmonic field-effect transistors (FETs) were investigated by a hydrodynamic model. Continuous wave detection simulations showed that the graphene response sensitivity…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-02-16 Yuhui Zhang , Michael S. Shur

Two types of novel graphene-based components, namely, filters and electro-optical switches in guided wave configuration are suggested and analysed. The filters differ from the known ones with collinear orientation of the input and output…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-04 Victor Dmitriev , Geraldo Melo , Wagner Castro

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

In this minireview, we explore the main features and the prospect of plasmonics with two-dimensional semiconductors. Plasmonic modes in each class of van der Waals semiconductors have their own peculiarities, along with potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 Amit Agarwal , Miriam S. Vitiello , Leonardo Viti , Anna Cupolillo , Antonio Politano

Surface plasmons with MHz-GHz energies are predicted by using milliparticles made of metamaterials that behave like metals in the radiofrequency range. In this work, the so-called Radioplasmonics is exploited to design scatterers embedded…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-02-08 Ricardo Martin Abraham-Ekeroth

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

Plasmonic bowtie antennas made of doped silicon can operate as plasmonic resonators at terahertz (THz) frequencies and provide large field enhancement close to their gap. We demonstrate both experimentally and theoretically that the field…

Visible surface plasmon resonances (SPRs) could be excited by TE wave polarization in one-dimensional photonic crystals (PCs) coated by a graphene layer under the Kretschmann configuration. In this work, the plasmonic Bloch wave properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 A. Alidoust Ghatar , D. Jahani , W. Fritzche , F. Garwe

Plasmonic metasurfaces enable simultaneous control of the phase, momentum, amplitude and polarisation of light and hence promise great utility in realisation of compact photonic devices. In this paper, we demonstrate a novel chip-scale…

Terahertz time domain spectroscopy employing free-space radiation has frequently been used to probe the elementary excitations of low-dimensional systems. The diffraction limit blocks its use for the in-plane study of individual laterally…

Frequency-selective or even frequency-tunable Terahertz (THz) photodevices are critical components for many technological applications that require nanoscale manipulation, control and confinement of light. Within this context, gate-tunable…

We present a theory for plasmonic crystal instability in a semiconductor field-effect transistor with a dual grating gate, designed with strong asymmetry in the crystal elementary cell. Under the action of a dc current bias, we demonstrate…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 G. R. Aizin , S. Mundaganur , A. Mundaganur , J. P. Bird

Owing to its two dimensional electronic structure, graphene exhibits many unique properties. One of them is a wave vector and temperature dependent plasmon in the infrared range. Theory predicts that due to these plasmons, graphene can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 P. J. van Zwol , S. Thiele , C. Berger , W. A. de Heer , J. Chevrier

Plasmonic terahertz detection by a double-grating gate field-effect transistor structure with an asymmetric unit cell is studied theoretically. Detection responsivity exceeding 8 kV/W at room temperature in the photovoltaic response mode is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 V. V. Popov , D. V. Fateev , T. Otsuji , Y. M. Meziani , D. Coquillat , W. Knap

We address the recently-observed unexpected behavior of Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in the electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer that was realized experimentally in a quantum Hall system [1]. We argue that the measured lobe structure in the…

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