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Graphene, a two-dimensional material with a high mobility and a tunable conductivity, is uniquely suited for plasmonics. The frequency dispersion of plasmons in bulk graphene has been studied both theoretically and experimentally, whereas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jared H. Strait , Parinita S. Nene , Wei-Min Chan , Christina Manolatou , Joshua W. Kevek , Sandip Tiwari , Paul L. McEuen , Farhan Rana

We present a detailed transmission electron microscopy and electron diffraction study of the thinnest possible membrane, a single layer of carbon atoms suspended in vacuum and attached only at its edges. Membranes consisting of two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-08 J. C. Meyer , A. K. Geim , M. I. Katsnelson , K. S. Novoselov , D. Obergfell , S. Roth , C. Girit , A. Zettl

Two-dimensional materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are ideal candidates to create ultra-thin electronics suitable for flexible substrates. Although optoelectronic devices based on TMDs have demonstrated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-15 Peize Han , Luke St. Marie , Qing X. Wang , Nicholas Quirk , Abdel El Fatimy , Masahiro Ishigami , Paola Barbara

The ultimate aspiration of any detection method is to achieve such a level of sensitivity that individual quanta of a measured value can be resolved. In the case of chemical sensors, the quantum is one atom or molecule. Such resolution has…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-09-06 F. Schedin , A. K. Geim , S. V. Morozov , D. Jiang , E. H. Hill , P. Blake , K. S. Novoselov

Imaging the vibrations of nanomechanical resonators means measuring their flexural mode shapes from the dependence of their frequency response on in-plane position. Applied to two-dimensional resonators, this technique provides a wealth of…

We demonstrate high-frequency mechanical resonators in ballistic graphene p-n junctions. Fully suspended graphene devices with two bottom gates exhibit ballistic bipolar behavior after current annealing. We determine the graphene mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 Minkyung Jung , Peter Rickhaus , Simon Zihlmann , Alexander Eichler , Peter Makk , Christian Schönenberger

Graphene and related two-dimensional (2D) materials associate remarkable mechanical, electronic, optical and phononic properties. As such, 2D materials are promising for hybrid systems that couple their elementary excitations (excitons,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-06 Xin Zhang , Kevin Makles , Léo Colombier , Dominik Metten , Hicham Majjad , Pierre Verlot , Stéphane Berciaud

We demonstrate high-resolution modification of suspended multi-layer graphene sheets by controlled exposure to the focused electron beam of a transmission electron microscope. We show that this technique can be used to realize, on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael D. Fischbein , Marija Drndic

In Micro-electro-mechanical Systems (MEMS) based pressure sensors and acoustic devices, deflection of a membrane is utilized for pressure or sound measurements. Due to advantages of capacitive pressure sensor over piezoresistive pressure…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-08-29 Rishabh Bhooshan Mishra , S Santosh Kumar , Ravindra Mukhiya

Graphene and graphene-based materials exhibit exceptional optical and electrical properties with great promise for novel applications in light detection. However, several challenges prevent the full exploitation of these properties in…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-20 Adolfo De Sanctis , Jake D. Mehew , Monica F. Craciun , Saverio Russo

An electro-absorption optical modulator concept based upon a dual-graphene layer is presented. The device consists of a silicon-on-insulator waveguide upon which two graphene layers reside, separated by a thin insulating region. The lower…

Optics · Physics 2012-05-21 Steven J. Koester , Mo Li

Ultraviolet (UV) electro-optic modulation system based on graphene-plasmonic metamaterials nanomechanical system (NEMS) with superlubricity is investigated. Due to the strong optical absorption intensity of graphene in the UV region and the…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-28 Xu Yan-li , Li Wei-min , Li Rong , Liu Jiang-tao , Liu Ze , Wu Zhen-Hua

Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) exploits surface plasmons induced by the incident field in metallic nanostructures to significantly increase the Raman intensity. Graphene provides the ideal prototype two dimensional (2d) test…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 F. Schedin , E. Lidorikis , A. Lombardo , V. G. Kravets , A. K. Geim , A. N. Grigorenko , K. S. Novoselov , A. C. Ferrari

Graphene solution-gated field-effect transistors (SGFETs) are a promising platform for the recording of cell action potentials due to the intrinsic high signal amplification of graphene transistors. In addition, graphene technology fulfils…

In recent years, the data traffic has grown exponentially and the forecasts indicate a huge market that could be addressed by communication infrastructure and service providers. However, the processing capacity, space, and energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Daniel Schall , Caroline Porschatis , Martin Otto , Daniel Neumaier

In this paper we present a passive and cost-effective method for increasing the frequency range of ultrasound MEMS microphone arrays when using beamforming techniques. By applying a 3D-printed construction that reduces the acoustic aperture…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Dennis Laurijssen , Walter Daems , Jan Steckel

In order to overcome the challenge of obtaining high modulation depth due to weak graphene-light interaction, a graphene-on-silicon nitride (SiNx) microring resonator based on graphene's gate-tunable optical conductivity is proposed and…

This study reports the successful synthesis of multilayered graphene sheets via microwave atmospheric pressure plasma. This innovative approach streamlines and expedites graphene production and other carbon nanostructures, eliminating the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-07 Waqas Iqbal , Najeeb-ur-Rehman , Niaz Wali

In recent years, we have seen a rapid progress in the field of graphene plasmonics, motivated by graphene's unique electrical and optical properties, tunabilty, long-lived collective excitation and their extreme light confinement. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-13 Tony Low , Phaedon Avouris

In spite of 40 years of experimental studies and several theoretical proposals, an overall interpretation of the complex behavior of the magnetoresistance (MR) of multilayer graphene, i.e. graphite, at high fields ($B \lesssim 70~$T) and in…