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Position measurements at the quantum level are vital for many applications, but also challenging. Typically, methods based on optical phase shifts are used, but these methods are often weak and difficult to apply to many materials. An…

Terahertz technology has made significant advances in the fields of spectroscopy, imaging and, more recently, wireless communications. In the latter, the use of this frequency band between 0.1 and 10 THz becomes extremely attractive due to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Sergi Abadal , Seyed E. Hosseininejad , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio , Eduard Alarcón

Transmission electron microscopy has witnessed rampant development and surging point resolution over the past few years. The improved imaging performance of modern electron microscopes shifts the bottleneck for image contrast and resolution…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 R. S. Pantelic , J. C. Meyer , U. Kaiser , H. Stahlberg

Graphene is an interesting debated topic between scientists because of its unique properties such as tunable conductivity. Graphene conductivity can be varied by either electrostatic or magnetostatic gating or via chemical doping, which…

We investigated ultrafast carrier dynamics in graphene with near-infrared transient absorption measurement after intense half-cycle terahertz pulse excitation. The terahertz electric field efficiently drives the carriers, inducing large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-08 Shuntaro Tani , François Blanchard , Koichiro Tanaka

We theoretically investigate the ultrafast terahertz(THz) properties of monolayer graphene. The analytical formulations of the photon carrier, electric polarization and optical current are obtained by solving the Bloch-equations in present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-23 Q. Jin , H. M. Dong , K. Han , X. F. Wang

Because of its fascinating electronic properties, graphene is expected to produce breakthroughs in many areas of nanoelectronics. For spintronics, its key advantage is the expected long spin lifetime, combined with its large electron…

We study theoretically a multi-frequency response of electrons in confined graphene subject to dc-ac driven fields. We explore the possibility for using graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) to generate and amplify terahertz (THz) radiations in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-18 M. Rabiu , S. Y. Mensah , S. S. Abukari

Terahertz (THz) fields are widely applied for sensing, communication and quality control. In future applications, they could be efficiently confined, enhanced and manipulated - well below the classical diffraction limit - through the…

It is evidenced by numerical calculations that optically pumped graphene is suitable for compensating inherent loss in terahertz (THz) metamaterials. In a first step, the complex conductivity of graphene under optical pumping is calculated…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Peter Weis , Juan Luis Garcia-Pomar , Marco Rahm

The theory of optical effects in hydrogenated graphene (graphane) in terahertz and infrared range is developed, including the analysis of complex conductivity, reflection coefficient for graphane on a substrate and dispersion of surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 E. I. Preobrazhensky , I. V. Oladyshkin , M. D. Tokman

Graphene, owing to its zero bandgap electronic structure, is promising as an absorption material for ultra-wideband photodetection applications. However, graphene-absorption based detectors inherently suffer from poor responsivity due to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Krishna Murali , Nithin Abraham , Sarthak Das , Sangeeth Kallatt , Kausik Majumdar

In this work, we investigated graphene hypersurface (HSF) for the manipulation of THz waves. The graphene HSF structure is consists of a periodic array of graphene unit cells deposited on silicon substrate and terminated by a metallic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Sasmita Dash , Christos Liaskos , Ian F. Akyildiz , Andreas Pitsillides

The unique optoelectronic properties of single layer graphene (SLG) are ideal for the development of photonic devices across a broad range of frequencies, from X-rays to microwaves. In the terahertz (THz) range (0.1-10 THz frequency) this…

Graphene is promising for nanoscale, efficient, ultra-fast photo- and opto-electronic devices because of its remarkable electrical and optical properties, such as fast electron relaxation and heat dissipation. Here, we realize…

Nanoscale photothermal sources find important applications in theranostics, imaging, and catalysis. In this context, graphene offers a unique suite of optical, electrical, and thermal properties, which we exploit to show self-consistent…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-08 Renwen Yu , Qiushi Guo , Fengnian Xia , F. Javier García de Abajo

The efficient amplification and lasing of electromagnetic radiation at terahertz (THz) frequencies is a non-trivial task achieved mainly by quantum cascade laser configurations with limited tunability and narrowband functionality. There is…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-30 Tianjing Guo , Liang Zhu , Pai-Yen Chen , Christos Argyropoulos

We study graphene on a photonic crystal operating in the terahertz (THz) spectral range. We show that the absorption of graphene becomes a modulated function of frequency and can be enhanced by more than three times at specific frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-25 Nuno M. R. Peres , Yuliy V. Bludov

Carbon nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes and graphene have proved to be efficient building blocks for active optoelectronic devices. Especially, the exotic properties of crystalline graphene, such as a linear/gapless energy dispersion,…

Amongst the wide spectrum of potential applications of graphene, ranging from transistors and chemical-sensors to nanoelectromechanical devices and composites, the field of photonics and optoelectronics is believed to be one of the most…