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Control of the polarization state of light is essential for many technologies, but is often limited by weak light-matter interactions that necessitate long device path lengths or significantly reduce the signal intensity. Here, we…

Interaction of single-walled carbon nanotubes with electron donor and acceptor molecules causes significant changes in the electronic and Raman spectra, the relative proportion of the metallic species increasing on electron donation through…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-05-29 Rakesh Voggu , Chandra Sekhar Rout , Aaron D. Franklin , Timothy S. Fisher , C. N. R. Rao

We measured a change in the current transport of an antenna-coupled, multi-gate, GaAs/AlGaAs field-effect transistor when terahertz electromagnetic waves irradiated the transistor and attribute the change to bolometric heating of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Gregory C. Dyer , Gregory R. Aizin , Sascha Preu , N. Q. Vinh , S. James Allen , John L. Reno , Eric A. Shaner

In this letter, we show that asymmetric transmission of circularly polarized waves through a nanostructured planar chiral graphene film can be observed in terahertz range. The asymmetric transmission effect of monatomic layer graphene…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 Junyang Zhao , Jianfa Zhang , Zhihong Zhu , Xiaodong Yuan , Shiqiao Qin

Circular dichroism is widely used for characterizing organic and biological materials, but measurements at a single molecule level are challenging because differences in absorption for opposite helicities are small. Here we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-23 A. Yokoyama , M. Yoshida , A. Ishii , Y. K. Kato

The spectral response of a plasmonic nanostructure may heavily depend on the refractive index of its surroundings. The key idea of this paper is to control this response by coherent optical means, i.e. with an optically controlled…

Negative refraction provides an attractive platform to manipulate mid-infrared and terahertz radiation for molecular sensing and thermal radiation applications. However, its implementation based on available metamaterials and plasmonic…

We design a polarization-sensitive resonator for use in midinfrared photodetectors, utilizing a photonic crystal cavity and a single or double-metal plasmonic waveguide to achieve enhanced detector efficiency due to superior optical…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-16 Jessie Rosenberg , Rajeev V. Shenoi , Sanjay Krishna , Oskar Painter

Coherent radiation with frequencies ranging from 0.3 to 30 THz has recently become accessible by femtosecond laser technology. Terahertz (THz) waves have already found many applications in spectroscopy and imaging, and they can be…

A magnetic field, through its vector potential, usually causes measurable changes in the electron wave function only in the direction transverse to the field. Here we demonstrate experimentally and theoretically that in carbon nanotube…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-08 M. Marganska , D. R. Schmid , A. Dirnaichner , P. L. Stiller , Ch. Strunk , M. Grifoni , A. K. Hüttel

We report on electrical resistance measurements of an individual carbon nanotube down to a temperature T=20 mK. The conductance exhibits a ln T dependence and saturates at low temperature. A magnetic field applied perpendicular to the tube…

Motivated by the possibility of combining spintronics with molecular structures, we investigate the conditions for the appearance of spin-polarization in low-dimensional tubular systems by contacting them to a magnetic substrate. We derive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mauro S. Ferreira , Stefano Sanvito

In recent years, neuromorphic computing has gained attention as a promising approach to enhance computing efficiency. Among existing approaches, neurotransistors have emerged as a particularly promising option as they accurately represent…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-06-23 Ertürk Enver Yildirim , Luis-Antonio Panes-Ruiz , Pratyaksh Yemulwar , Ebru Cihan , Bergoi Ibarlucea , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

We present a theoretical study of the directionality effects in spontaneous emission and resonance fluorescence of a quantum two-level dipole emitter near an ultrathin closely packed periodically aligned single-wall carbon nanotube film.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Michael D. Pugh , SK Firoz Islam , Igor V. Bondarev

Visible and infrared photons can be detected with a broadband response via the internal photoeffect. By using plasmonic nanostructures, i.e. nanoantennas, wavelength selectivity can be introduced to such detectors through geometry-dependent…

Controlling light polarization is one of the most essential routines in modern optical technology. Since the demonstration of optical pulse shaping by spatial light modulators and its potential in controlling the quantum reaction pathways,…

The directional control of light in miniaturized plasmonic waveguides holds appealing possibilities for emerging nanophotonic technologies, but is hindered by the intrinsic reciprocal optical response of conventional plasmonic materials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri , F. Javier García de Abajo , Joel D. Cox

A single-walled carbon nanotube presents a seamless cylindrical graphene surface and is thus an ideal adsorption substrate for investigating the physics of atoms and molecules in two dimensions and approaching the one-dimensional limit.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Boris Dzyubenko , Hao-Chun Lee , Oscar E. Vilches , David H. Cobden

Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors with structures and properties near the scaling limit with short (down to 50 nm) channels, self aligned geometries, palladium electrodes with low contact resistance and high-k dielectric gate…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Ali Javey , Jing Guo , Damon B. Farmer , Qian Wang , Erhan Yenilmez , Roy G. Gordon , Mark Lundstrom , Hongjie Dai

We designed a cut-wire-pair metasurface that works as a transparent terahertz half-wave plate, by matching the electric and magnetic resonances of the structure. Due to the impedance matching nature of the resonances, a large transmission…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-31 Yosuke Nakata , Yudai Taira , Toshihiro Nakanishi , Fumiaki Miyamaru