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Graphene is an atomically thin plasmonic medium that supports highly confined plasmon polaritons, or nano-light, with very low loss. Electronic properties of graphene can be drastically altered when it is laid upon another graphene layer,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-25 S. S. Sunku , G. X. Ni , B. -Y. Jiang , H. Yoo , A. Sternbach , A. S. McLeod , T. Stauber , L. Xiong , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , P. Kim , M. M. Fogler , D. N. Basov

The strong light-matter interaction in graphene over a broad frequency range has opened up a plethora of photonics applications of graphene. The goal of this paper is to present the voltage tunability of plasmons in gated single- and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-20 Shaloo Rakheja , Parijat Sengupta

We report experimental signatures of plasmonic effects due to electron tunneling between adjacent graphene layers. At sub-nanometer separation, such layers can form either a strongly coupled bilayer graphene with a Bernal stacking or a…

Two types of novel graphene-based components, namely, filters and electro-optical switches in guided wave configuration are suggested and analysed. The filters differ from the known ones with collinear orientation of the input and output…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-04 Victor Dmitriev , Geraldo Melo , Wagner Castro

We propose a two-dimensional plasmonic platform - periodically patterned monolayer graphene - which hosts topological one-way edge states operable up to infrared frequencies. We classify the band topology of this plasmonic system under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Dafei Jin , Thomas Christensen , Marin Soljačić , Nicholas X. Fang , Ling Lu , Xiang Zhang

Graphene, a single atomic layer of graphitic carbon, has attracted intense attention due to its extraordinary properties that make it a suitable material for a wide range of technological applications. Large-area graphene films, which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-18 Oleg V. Yazyev , Yong P. Chen

We investigate the optical properties of layered structures with graphene at the interface for arbitrary linear polarization at finite temperature including full retardation by working in the Weyl gauge. As a special case, we obtain the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-23 T. Stauber , G. Gómez-Santos

This work presents a systematic review of the feature-rich essential properties in graphene-related systems using the first-principles method. The geometric and electronic properties are greatly diversified by the number of layers, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 Ngoc Thanh Thuy Tran , Shih-Yang Lin , Chiun-Yan Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

Serving as a new two-dimensional plasmonic material, graphene has stimulated an intensive study of its optical properties which benefit from the unique electronic band structure of the underlying honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Weihua Wang , Thomas Christensen , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Kristian S. Thygesen , Martijn Wubs , N. Asger Mortensen

In this work, a new structure is suggested for spasing. The presented spaser is made up of a graphene nanosphere, which supports localized surface plasmon modes, and a quantum dot array, acting as a gain medium. The gain medium is pumped by…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-06 Sadreddin Behjati Ardakani , Rahim Faez

Topological defects (e.g. pentagons, heptagons and pentagon-heptagon pairs) have been widely observed in large scale graphene and have been recognized to play important roles in tailoring the mechanical and physical properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Bo Ni , Teng Zhang , Jiaoyan Li , Xiaoyan Li , Huajian Gao

Using full potential density functional theory calculations we have investigated the structural and electronic properties of graphene and some other graphene-like materials, viz., monolayer of SiC, GeC, BN, AlN, GaN, ZnO, ZnS and ZnSe. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-12 Gautam Mukhopadhyay , Harihar Behera

The discoveries of numerous exciting phenomena in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) are stimulating significant investigations on moir\'e structures that possess a tunable moir\'e potential. Optical response can provide insights into the…

In this work we will focus on the effects produced by topological disorder on the electronic properties of a graphene plane. The presence of this type of disorder induces curvature in the samples of this material, making quite difficult the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 Alberto Cortijo , María A. H. Vozmediano

Graphene hybrids, made of thin insulators, graphene, and metals can support propagating acoustic plasmons (AGPs). The metal screening modifies the dispersion relation of usual graphene plasmons leading to slowly propagating plasmons, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-27 Tatiana G. Rappoport , Yuliy V. Bludov , Frank H. L. Koppens , Nuno M. R. Peres

We derive a material-realistic real-space many-body Hamiltonian for twisted bilayer graphene from first principles, including both single-particle hopping terms for $p_z$ electrons and long-range Coulomb interactions. By disentangling low-…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-24 Tom Westerhout , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Malte Rösner

Non-reciprocity and asymmetric transmission in optical and plasmonic systems is a key element for engineering the one-way propagation structures for light manipulation. Here we investigate topological nanostructures covered with…

This review on graphene, a one atom thick, two-dimensional sheet of carbon atoms, starts with a general description of the graphene electronic structure as well as a basic experimental toolkit for identifying and handling this material.…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-22 Caterina Soldano , Ather Mahmood , Erik Dujardin

Topologically protected plasmonic modes located inside topological bandgaps are attracting increasing attention, chiefly due to their robustness against disorder-induced backscattering. Here, we introduce a bilayer graphene metasurface that…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-01 Yupei Wang , Jian Wei You , Zhihao Lan , Nicolae C. Panoiu

Here we study subwavelength gratings for coupling into graphene plasmons by means of an an- alytical model based on transformation optics that is not limited to very shallow gratings. We consider gratings that consist of a periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Paloma A. Huidobro , Matthias Kraft , Ren Kun , Stefan A. Maier , John B. Pendry