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Plasmonic metasurfaces are able to modify the wavefront by altering the light intensity, phase and polarization state. Active plasmonic metasurfaces would allow dynamic modulation of the wavefront which give rise to interesting application…

We study above-barrier scattering of Dirac electrons by a smooth electrostatic potential combined with a coordinate-dependent mass in graphene. We assume that the potential and mass are sufficiently smooth, so that we can define a small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 K. J. A. Reijnders , D. S. Minenkov , M. I. Katsnelson , S. Yu. Dobrokhotov

The linear energy-momentum dispersion, coupled with pseudo-spinors, makes graphene an ideal solid-state material platform to realize an electronic device based on Dirac-Fermionic relativistic quantum mechanics. Employing local gate control,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Ke Wang , Mirza M. Elahi , K. M. Masum Habib , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Avik W. Ghosh , Gil-Ho Lee , Philip Kim

Metasurfaces, composed of subwavelength electromagnetic microstructures, known as meta-atoms, are capable of reshaping the wavefronts of incident beams in desired manners, making them great candidates for revolutionizing conventional…

High-quality flat optical elements require efficient light deflection to large angles and over a wide wavelength spectrum. Although phase gradient metasurfaces achieve this by continuously adding phase shifts in the range of 0 to 2{\pi} to…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-26 Claudio U. Hail , Dimos Poulikakos , Hadi Eghlidi

Metasurfaces are artificial thin materials that achieve optical thickness through thin geometrical structure. This feature of metasurfaces results in unprecedented benefits for enhancing the performance of optoelectronic devices. In this…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-14 Ryosuke Nakayama , Sohei Saito , Takuo Tanaka , Wakana Kubo

Metasurfaces, the two-dimensional counterpart of metamaterials, have caught great attention thanks to their powerful capabilities on manipulation of electromagnetic waves. Recent times have seen the emergence of a variety of metasurfaces…

The electron microscope has been a powerful, highly versatile workhorse in the fields of material and surface science, micro and nanotechnology, biology and geology, for nearly 80 years. The advent of two-dimensional materials opens new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Peter Bøggild , Jose M. Caridad , Christoph Stampfer , Gaetano Galogero , Nick Papior , Mads Brandbyge

An electron behaves as both a particle and a wave. On account of this it can be controlled in a similar way to a photon and electronic devices can be designed in analogy to those based on light when there is minimal excitation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Michael Forrester , Fedor Kusmartsev

Ballistic electrons in solids can have mean free paths far larger than the smallest features patterned by lithography. This has allowed development and study of solid-state electron-optical devices such as beam splitters and quantum point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Arthur W. Barnard , Alex Hughes , Aaron L. Sharpe , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , David Goldhaber-Gordon

Curved and conformal optics offer significant advantages by unlocking additional geometric degrees of freedom for optical design. These capabilities enable enhanced optical performance and are essential for meeting non-optical constraints,…

Many of graphene's unique electronic properties emerge from its Dirac-like electronic energy spectrum. Similarly, it is expected that a nanophotonic system featuring Dirac dispersion will open a path to a number of important research…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Bravo-Abad , J. D. Joannopoulos , M. Soljacic

Nanostructured dielectric metasurfaces offer unprecedented opportunities to manipulate light by imprinting an arbitrary phase-gradient on an impinging wavefront. This has resulted in the realization of a range of flat analogs to classical…

We introduce a practical dielectric metasurface design for microwave frequencies. The metasurface is made of an array of dielectric resonators held together by dielectric connections thus avoiding the need of a mechanical support in the…

The recent discovery of methods to isolate graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of crystalline carbon, has raised the possibility of a new class of nano-electronics devices based on the extraordinary electrical transport and unusual physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-02 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Anthony Barker , Eva Y. Andrei

This review aims at a theoretical discussion of Dirac points in two-dimensional systems. Whereas Dirac points and Dirac fermions are prominent low-energy electrons in graphene (two-dimensional graphite), research on Dirac fermions in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Mark O. Goerbig , Gilles Montambaux

The electronic structure of a graphene superlattice composed by two periodic regions with different Fermi velocity, energy gap and electrostatic potential is investigated by using an effective Dirac-like Hamiltonian. It must be expected…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-07 Jonas R. F. Lima

Controlling and harvesting solar radiation pressure is a significant challenge, however, there are few potential solutions, which are suitable for several key applications. In this study, an electrically tunable plasmonic metasurface is…

Metasurfaces, with their ability to control electromagnetic waves, hold immense potential in optical device design, especially for applications requiring precise control over dispersion. This work introduces an approach to dispersion…

Man-made artificial graphene has attracted significant attention in the past few years due to the possibilities to construct designer Dirac fermions with unexpected topological properties and applications in nanoelectronics. Here we use a…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-10 Matti Ropo , Sami Paavilainen , Jaakko Akola , Esa Räsänen