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Polaritons are light-matter quasiparticles that govern the optical response of quantum materials and enable their nanophotonic applications. We have studied a new type of polaritons arising in magnetized graphene encapsulated in hexagonal…

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Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Joel D. Cox , F. Javier García de Abajo

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a natural hyperbolic material which can also accommodate highly dispersive surface phonon-polariton modes. In this paper, we examine theoretically the mid-infrared optical properties of graphene-hBN…

We study the electromagnetic properties of a metamaterial consisting of polarizable (nano)particles and a single graphene sheet placed at the interface between two dielectrics. We show that the particle's polarizability is renormalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Jaime E. Santos , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. M. R. Peres , G. Smirnov , Yu. V. Bludov

Plasmonic devices, with their ultra-high integration density and data-carrying capacity comparable to optical devices, are currently a hot topic in the field of nanophotonic devices. Photodetectors, non-volatile memories, and ultra-compact…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-12 Xinghui Liu , Kaili Chang , Jiarong Guo , Mengfei Xue , Ran Zhou , Ke Chen , Jianing Chen

Collective excitations of charged particles under the influence of an electromagnetic field give rise to a rich variety of hybrid light-matter quasiparticles with unique properties. In metals, intraband collective response manifested by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Tomer Eini , M. F. C. Martins Quintela , J. C. G. Henriques , R. M. Ribeiro , Yarden Mazor , N. M. R. Peres , Itai Epstein

Polaritons, coupled excitations of photons and dipolar matter excitations, can propagate along anisotropic metasurfaces with either hyperbolic or elliptical dispersion. At the transition from hyperbolic to elliptical dispersion…

Multilayer assemblies of metal nanoparticles can act as photonic structures, where collective plasmon resonances hybridize with cavity modes to create plasmon-polariton states. For sufficiently strong coupling, plasmon polaritons…

Among their amazing properties, graphene and related low-dimensional materials show quantized charge-density fluctuations--known as plasmons--when exposed to photons or electrons of suitable energies. Graphene nanoribbons offer an enhanced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-14 Cristian Vacacela Gomes , Michele Pisarra , Mario Gravina , Jose M. Pitarke , Antonello Sindona

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

We study the interaction of focused radially-polarized light with metal nanospheres. By expanding the electromagnetic field in terms of multipoles, we gain insight on the excitation of localized surface plasmon-polariton resonances in the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nassiredin M. Mojarad , Mario Agio

The current (voltage) responsivity of the superlattice-based diode detectors in the terahertz frequency band which includes the region of the polar optical phonon frequencies has been analyzed theoretically. Within the framework of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-30 Anatoly A. Ignatov

Nanoplasmonics exploits the coupling between light and collective electron density oscillations (plasmons) to bypass the stringent limits imposed by diffraction. This coupling enables confinement of light to sub-wavelength volumes and is…

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

Polaritons are compositional light-matter quasiparticles that have recently enabled remarkable breakthroughs in quantum and nonlinear optics, as well as in material science. Despite the enormous progress, however, a direct nanometer-scale…

Interactions between localized plasmons in proximal nanostructures is a well-studied phenomenon. Here we explore plasmon plasmon interactions in connected extended systems. Such systems can now be easily produced using graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-07 Daniel Rodrigo , Tony Low , Damon B. Farmer , Hatice Altug , Phaedon Avouris

Recent experimental studies on graphene on hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) have demonstrated that hBN is not only a passive substrate that ensures superb electronic properties of graphene's carriers, but that it actively modifies their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-29 Andrea Tomadin , Francisco Guinea , Marco Polini

It is shown that one can explore the optical conductivity of graphene, together with the ability of controlling its electronic density by an applied gate voltage, in order to achieve resonant coupling between an external electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Yu. V. Bludov , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. M. R. Peres

Plasmons --the collective oscillations of electrons in conducting materials-- play a pivotal role in nanophotonics because of their ability to couple electronic and photonic degrees of freedom. In particular, plasmons in graphene --the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-08 Renwen Yu , F. Javier García de Abajo