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The optical conductivities of graphene layers are strongly dependent on their stacking orders. Our first-principle calculations show that while the optical conductivities of single layer graphene (SLG) and bilayer graphene (BLG) with Bernal…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-04 Yingying Wang , Zhenhua Ni , Lei Liu , Yanhong Liu , Chunxiao Cong , Ting Yu , Xiaojun Wang , Dezhen Shen , Zexiang Shen

Recently, the rhombohedral trilayer graphene (r-TLG) has attracted much attention because of its low-energy flat bands, which are predicted to result in many strongly correlated phenomena. Here, we demonstrate that it is possible to probe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-13 Rui Xu , Long-Jing Yin , Jia-Bin Qiao , Ke-Ke Bai , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

Trilayer graphene {(TLG)} consists of three layers of graphene arranged in a particular stacking order. In the case of ABC-ABA-ABC stacking, the layers are arranged in an A-B-C sequence, followed by an A-B-A sequence, and again an A-B-C…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Mouhamadou Hassane Saley , Ahmed Jellal

Motivated by the recent experimental realization of twisted trilayer graphene and the observed superconductivity that is associated with its flat bands at specific angles, we study trilayer graphene under the influence of different forms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 I. A. Assi , J. P. F. LeBlanc , Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Hocine Bahlouli , Michael Vogl

The electronic structure of few-layer graphene (FLG) samples with crystalline order was investigated experimentally by infrared absorption spectroscopy for photon energies ranging from 0.2 - 1 eV. Distinct optical conductivity spectra were…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan , Tony F. Heinz

Encapsulating few-layer graphene (FLG) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) can cause nanoscale inhomogeneities in the FLG, including changes in stacking domains and topographic defects. Due to the diffraction limit, characterizing these…

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is generally observed by excitation of surface plasmon polaritons on the metal (Au/Ag) surface. In order to utilize the SPR phenomenon for sensing application, the metal surface is functionalized with…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-20 Amrit Kumar , Manjuladevi V , R. K. Gupta

We discuss the properties of surface plasmons-polaritons in graphene and describe three possible ways of coupling electromagnetic radiation in the terahertz (THz) spectral range to this type of surface waves. (i) the attenuated total…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-18 Yu. V. Bludov , A. Ferreira , N. M. R. Peres , M. I. Vasilevskiy

In tetralayer graphene, three inequivalent layer stackings should exist, however, only rhombohedral (ABCA) and Bernal (ABAB) stacking have so far been observed. The three stacking sequences differ in their electronic structure, with the…

Trilayer graphene in both ABA (Bernal) and ABC (rhombohedral) stacking sequences is shown to exhibit intense infrared absorption from in-plane optical phonons. The feature, lying at ~1580 cm-1, changes strongly with electrostatic gating.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-03 Chun Hung Lui , Emmanuele Cappelluti , Zhiqiang Li , Tony F. Heinz

Crystal symmetry plays a central role in governing a wide range of fundamental physical phenomena. One example is the nonlinear optical second harmonic generation (SHG), which requires inversion symmetry breaking. Here we report a unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Yuwei Shan , Yingguo Li , Di Huang , Qingjun Tong , Wang Yao , Wei-Tao Liu , Shiwei Wu

In this paper, we theoretically investigate plasmon propagation characteristics in AB and AA stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) in the presence of energy asymmetry due to an electrostatic field oriented perpendicularly to the plane of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-25 Seyed M. Farzaneh , Shaloo Rakheja

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures are gaining increasing attention because they offer new opportunities to tailor and explore unique electronic phenomena when stacking 2D materials with small twist angles. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-28 Junxi Yu , Rajiv Giridharagopal , Yuhao Li , Kaichen Xie , Jiangyu Li , Ting Cao , Xiaodong Xu , David S. Ginger

Few layer graphene (FLG) has been recently intensively investigated for its variable electronic properties defined by a local atomic arrangement. While the most natural layers arrangement in FLG is ABA (Bernal) stacking, a metastable ABC…

We calculate the static polarization of AAA-stacked trilayer graphene (TLG) and study its screening properties within the random phase approximation (RPA) in all undoped, doped and biased regimes. We find that the static polarization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Yawar Mohammadi , Rostam Moradian , Farzad Shirzadi Tabar

The propagation of electromagnetic waves along the surface of a nonlinear dielectric covered by a graphene layer is investigated. The main result is that such a surface can support and stabilize nonlinear transverse electric (TE) plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-30 Yuliy V. Bludov , Daria A. Smirnova , Yuri S. Kivshar , Nuno M. R. Peres , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy

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…

Phonon polaritons in natural anisotropic crystals hold great promise for infrared nano-optics. However, the direct electrical control of these polaritons is difficult, preventing the development of active polaritonic devices. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-24 Zhiyong Li , Zefeng Chen , Jingwen Ma , Xin Hu , Pan Wang , Yungui Ma , Jian-Bin Xu

Patterned graphene, as an atomically thin layer, supports localized surface plasmon-polaritons (LSPPs) at mid-infrared or far-infrared frequencies. This provides a pronounced optical force/torque in addition to large optical cross sections…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-05 E. Mobini , A. Rahimzadegan , R. Alaee , C. Rockstuhl

We observed distinct interlayer shear mode Raman spectra for trilayer graphene with ABA and ABC stacking order. There are two rigid-plane shear-mode phonon branches in trilayer graphene. We found that ABA trilayers exhibit pronounced Raman…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Chun Hung Lui , Zhipeng Ye , Courtney Keiser , Eduardo B. Barros , Rui He