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We present theoretical calculations for the absorption properties of protein-coated gold nanoparticles on graphene and graphite substrates. As the substrate is far away from nanoparticles, numerical results show that the number of protein…

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An acoustic plasmonic mode in a graphene-dielectric-metal heterostructure has recently been spotlighted as a superior platform for strong light-matter interaction. It originates from the coupling of graphene plasmon with its mirror image…

Traditional approaches to optical matter often involve complex illumination fields with costly and unstable setups, requiring strong gradient forces, high-intensity laser spots that could harm samples, and substrate support. For binding,…

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Heterostacks formed by combining two-dimensional materials show novel properties which are of great interest for new applications in electronics, photonics and even twistronics, the new emerging field born after the outstanding discoveries…

Surface plasmons in graphene provide a compelling strategy for advanced photonic technologies thanks to their tight confinement, fast response and tunability. Recent advances in the field of all optical generation of graphene plasmons in…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-08 Y. Li , N. An , Z. Lu , Y. Wang , B. Chang , T. Tan , X. Guo , X. Xu , J. He , H. Xia , Z. Wu , Y. Su , Y. Liu , Y. Rao , G. Soavi , B. Yao

We demonstrate a dynamic surface plasmonic modulation of graphene-nanowire hybrid structures in visible light range, which was thought to be a tough task for graphene based field effect transistor modulator previously. Static modulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-02 Haoliang Qian , Yaoguang Ma , Qing Yang , Bigeng Chen , Ying Liu , Xin Guo , Shisheng Lin , Jili Ruan , Xu Liu , Limin Tong , Zhong Lin Wang

The interaction of light with matter has triggered the interest of scientists for long time. The area of plasmonics emerges in this context through the interaction of light with valence electrons in metals. The random phase approximation in…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-07 Marios Mattheakis , Giorgos P. Tsironis , Efthimios Kaxiras

Surface plasmons in graphene may provide an attractive alternative to noble-metal plasmons due to their tighter confinement, peculiar dispersion, and longer propagation distance. We present theoretical studies of the nonlinear difference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Xianghan Yao , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin

The evanescent field of an optical nanofiber presents a versatile interface for the manipulation of micron-scale particles in dispersion. Here, we present a detailed study of the optical binding interactions of a pair of 3.13 $\mu$m SiO$_2$…

Surface plasmons (SP) and their mediated effects have been widely used to manipulate micro- and nanoscale objects of dielectric and metallic nature. In this work, we show how SP excitation can be used to induce thermofluidic and…

Singular graphene metasurfaces, conductivity gratings realized by periodically suppressing the local doping level of a graphene sheet, have recently been proposed to efficiently harvest THz light and couple it to surface plasmons over broad…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 E. Galiffi , P. A. Huidobro , P. A. D. Gonçalves , N. A. Mortensen , J. B. Pendry

It is known that the near-field spectrum of the local density of states of the electromagnetic field above a SiC/air interface displays an intense narrow peak due to the presence of a surface polariton. It has been recently shown that this…

Based on a structure consisting of a single graphene layer situated on a periodic dielectric grating, we show theoretically that intense terahertz (THz) radiations can be generated by an electron bunch moving atop the graphene layer. The…

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We re-visit the issue of plasmon damping due to electron-electron interaction. The plasmon linewidth can related to the imaginary part of the charge susceptibility or, equivalently, to the real part of the optical conductivity,…

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We study theoretically the interaction of twisted light with graphene. The light-matter interaction matrix elements between the tight-binding states of electrons in graphene are determined near the Dirac points. We examine the dynamics of…

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We experimentally demonstrate graphene-plasmon polariton excitation in a continuous graphene monolayer resting on a two-dimensional subwavelength silicon grating. The subwavelength silicon grating is fabricated by a nanosphere lithography…

We present a study of light-induced forces between two coupled plasmonic nano-particles above various slab geometries including a metallic half-space and a 280-nm thick negative index material (NIM) slab waveguide. We investigate optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 C. Van Vlack , P. Yao , S. Hughes

In this paper we propose and discuss coherent terahertz sources based on charge density wave (plasmon) amplification in two dimensional graphene. The coupling of the plasmons to interband electron-hole transitions in population inverted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Farhan Rana

The spectral and statistical properties are explored for surface plasmon (SP) emission in resonance fluorescence from a driven two level emitter in the proximity of 2D single graphene sheet. We derive an exact closed form analytic…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-29 Ali A. Kamli , Sergey A. Moiseev , Jabir W. Hakami

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed to study the formation process of nanopores in a suspended graphene sheet irradiated by using energetic ions though a mask. By controlling the ion parameters including mass, energy and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-10 Weisen Li , Li Liang , Shijun Zhao , Shuo zhang , Jianming Xue