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Surface plasmons are collective oscillations of electrons in metals or semiconductors enabling confinement and control of electromagnetic energy at subwavelength scales. Rapid progress in plasmonics has largely relied on advances in device…

The interest in two-dimensional and layered materials continues to expand, driven by the compelling properties of individual atomic layers that can be stacked and/or twisted into synthetic heterostructures. The plethora of electronic…

Metamaterials and plasmonics are powerful tools for unconventional manipulation and harnessing of light. Metamaterials can be engineered to possess intriguing properties lacking in natural materials, such as negative refractive index.…

Graphene plasmons provide a suitable alternative to noble-metal plasmons because they exhibit much larger confinement and relatively long propagation distances, with the advantage of being highly tunable via electrostatic gating. We report…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Frank H. L. Koppens , Darrick E. Chang , F. Javier Garcia de Abajo

This paper presents an analytical study of TM-polarized surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in nonlinear multi-layer structures containing graphene sheets. In the general structure, each graphene sheet has been sandwiched between two…

Plasmons in low-dimensional systems respresent an important tool for coupling energy into nanostructures and the localization of energy on the scale of only a few nanometers. Contrary to ordinary surface plasmons of metallic bulk materials,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 H. Pfnür , C. Tegenkamp , L. Vattuone

Graphene plasmons promise exciting nanophotonic and optoelectronic applications. Owing to their extremely short wavelengths, however, the efficient coupling of photons to graphene plasmons - critical for the development of future devices -…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-10 A. Y. Nikitin , P. Alonso-Gonzalez , R. Hillenbrand

Graphene supports surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) with extreme field confinement and electrical tunability, but these waves are typically short-lived due to ohmic loss in the sheet. We show that embedding graphene in an active dielectric…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-24 Andrianos Sygrimis , Giorgos P. Tsironis

Inspired by recent advancement of low-power ferroelectic-gated memories and transistors, we propose a design of ferroelectic-gated nanoplasmonic devices based on graphene sheets clamped in ferroelectric crystals. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-23 Dafei Jin , Anshuman Kumar , Kin Hung Fung , Jun Xu , Nicholas X. Fang

The unique gate-voltage dependent optical properties of graphene make it a promising electrically-tunable plasmonic material. In this work, we proposed in-situ control of the polarization of nanoantennas by combining plasmonic structures…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-26 Yuwei Qin , Xiaoyan Y. Z. Xiong , Wei E. I. Sha , Li Jun Jiang

Light scattering by two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) is immense, especially given their infinitesimal volume, thus enabling strong light-matter interactions. Surface 2D polariton waves manifest through large…

Graphene is an atomically thin plasmonic medium that supports highly confined plasmon polaritons, or nano-light, with very low loss. Electronic properties of graphene can be drastically altered when it is laid upon another graphene layer,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-25 S. S. Sunku , G. X. Ni , B. -Y. Jiang , H. Yoo , A. Sternbach , A. S. McLeod , T. Stauber , L. Xiong , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , P. Kim , M. M. Fogler , D. N. Basov

The combination of plasmonic nanoparticles and graphene enhances the responsivity and spectral selectivity of graphene-based photodetectors. However, the small area of the metal-graphene junction, where the induced electron-hole pairs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 T. J. Echtermeyer , S. Milana , U. Sassi , A. Eiden , M. Wu , E. Lidorikis , A. C. Ferrari

The paper deals with the theoretical consideration of surface plasmon-polaritons in the graphene monolayer, embedded into dielectric with spatially separated gain and losses. It is demonstrated, that presence of gain and losses in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 O. A. Zhernovnykova , O. V. Popova , G. V. Deynychenko , T. I. Deynichenko , Yuliy V. Bludov

We study dispersion properties of TM-polarized electromagnetic waves guided by a multilayer graphene metamaterial. We demonstrate that both dispersion and localization of the guided modes can be efficiently controlled by changing the number…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Daria Smirnova , Ivan Iorsh , Ilya Shadrivov , Yuri Kivshar

Graphene plasmons are able to become the fundermental of novel conceptual photonic devices, resulting from their unique characteristics containing excitation at room temperature and tunable spectral selectivity in different frequencies. The…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-27 Junxiong Guo , Shangdong Li , Jianbo Chen , Ji Cai , Xin Gou , Shicai Wang , Jinghua Ye , Yu Liu , Lin Lin

Plasmonic metasurfaces form a convenient platform for light manipulation at the nanoscale due to their specific localized surface plasmons. Nevertheless, despite the high degree of light localization in metals, their intrinsic Joule losses…

Harnessing electronic excitations involving coherent coupling to bosonic modes is essential for the design and control of emergent phenomena in quantum materials [1]. In situations where charge carriers induce a lattice distortion due to…

Vertical plasmonic coupling in double-layer graphene leads to two hybridized plasmonic modes: optical and acoustic plasmons with symmetric and anti-symmetric charge distributions across the interlayer gap, respectively. However, in most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 In-Ho Lee , Tony Low , Luis Martín-Moreno , Phaedon Avouris , Sang-Hyun Oh

Guided 2D exciton-polaritons, resulting from the strong coupling of excitons in semiconductors with non-radiating waveguide modes, provide an attractive approach towards developing novel on-chip optical devices. These quasiparticles are…