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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

Dielectrophoretic (DEP) sensing is an extremely important sensing modality that enables the rapid capture and detection of polarizable particles of nano-scale size. This makes it a versatile tool for applications in medical diagnostics,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Nezhueyotl Izquierdo , Ruixue Li , Peter R. Christenson , Sang-Hyun Oh , Steven J. Koester

In this paper, we have proposed ultra-broadband terahertz absorber with three layers of periodic graphene disks arrays (PGDAs). A gold layer was utilized as backside reflector and TOPAS as dielectric spacers. Circuit model of PGDAs and the…

Realization of logic circuits in graphene with an energy gap (EG) remains one of the main challenges for graphene electronics. We found that large transport EGs (>100 meV) can be fulfilled in dual-gated bilayer graphene underneath a simple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-25 Song-Lin Li , Hisao Miyazaki , Hidefumi Hiura , Chuan Liu , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi

We numerically demonstrate a novel monolayer graphene-based perfect absorption multi-layer photonic structure by the mechanism of critical coupling with guided resonance, in which the absorption of graphene can significantly close to 99% at…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-15 Xiaoyun Jiang , Tao Wang , Shuyuan Xiao , Xicheng Yan , Le Cheng

All-optical switches have attracted attention because they can potentially overcome the speed limitation of electric switches. However, ultrafast, energy-efficient all-optical switches have been challenging to realize due to the…

Here we discuss the physics of electro-optic modulators deploying 2D materials. We include a scaling laws analysis showing how energy-efficiency and speed change for three underlying cavity systems as a function of critical device length…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Zhizhen Ma , Rohit Hemnani , Ludwig Bartels , Ritesh Agarwal , Volker J. Sorger

Combining the quantum optical properties of single-photon emitters with the strong near-field interactions available in nanophotonic and plasmonic systems is a powerful way of creating quantum manipulation and metrological functionalities.…

It was demonstrated that optical modulation together with simultaneous terahertz (THz) imaging application enables an increase in contrast by an order of magnitude illustrating hence the technique as convenient contactless tool for…

In this paper we describe the status of the first prototype of the 60 GHz wireless Multi-gigabit data transfer topology currently under development at University of Heidelberg using IBM 130 nm SiGe HBT BiCMOS technology. The 60 GHz band is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-05 H. K. Soltveit , R. Brenner. A. Schöning , D. Wiedner

Driven by the growing demand for large-scale artificial intelligence applications, disaggregated compute nodes and high-radix switches in next-generation computing clusters are set to surpass the capacity of current optical interconnect…

Bolometers are a powerful and vital means of detecting light in the IR to THz frequencies, and they have been adopted for a range of uses from astronomical observation to thermal imaging. As uses diversify, there is an increasing demand for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Andrew Blaikie , David Miller , Benjamín J. Alemán

Optical and optoelectronic approaches of performing matrix-vector multiplication (MVM) operations have shown the great promise of accelerating machine learning (ML) algorithms with unprecedented performance. The incorporation of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Weilu Gao , Cunxi Yu , Ruiyang Chen

The hyperbolic phonon-polaritons within the Reststrahlen band of hBN are of great interest for applications in nanophotonics as they are capable of propagating light signals with low losses over large distances. However, due to the phononic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Matthias Maier , Andrei Nemilentsau , Tony Low , Mitchell Luskin

A simple analysis is performed for the absorption properties of graphene; sandwiched between two media. For a proper choice of media and graphene doping/gating one can approach 50-100% absorption in the GHz-THz range for the one atom thick…

Optics · Physics 2012-01-17 S. P. Apell , G. W. Hanson , C. Hägglund

A dual-gate graphene field-effect transistors is presented, which shows improved RF performance by reducing the access resistance using electrostatic doping. With a carrier mobility of 2700 cm2/Vs, a cutoff frequency of 50 GHz is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-21 Yu-Ming Lin , Hsin-Ying Chiu , Keith A. Jenkins , Damon B. Farmer , Phaedon Avouris , Alberto Valdes-Garcia

The optical absorption properties of graphene wrapped dielectric particles have been investigated by using Mie scattering theory and exact multi-scattering method. It is shown that subwavelength strong absorption in infrared spectra can…

Optics · Physics 2015-02-11 Bing Yang , Tong Wu , Yue Yang , Xiangdong Zhang

In this work, we investigated a simple structured graphene terahertz (THz) metasurface (MSF) with perfect absorption, wideband, polarization insensitive, oblique incidence insensitive and frequency reconfiguration. The graphene MSF…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-21 Sasmita Dash , Christos Liaskos , Ian F. Akyildiz , Andreas Pitsillides

We design a resistive heater optimized for efficient and low-loss optical phase modulation in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguide and characterize the fabricated devices. Modulation is achieved by flowing current perpendicular to a new…

Hybrid integration of plasmonics and Si photonics is a promising architecture for global microprocessor interconnects. To this end, practical plasmonic devices not only should provide athermal, broadband operation over wavelength-scale…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-10-13 Yiwen Su , Charles Lin , PoHan Chang , Amr S. Helmy