Low-dimensional gap plasmons for enhanced light-graphene interactions
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| author | Kim, Yunjung Yu, Sunkyu Park, Namkyoo |
| author_facet | Kim, Yunjung Yu, Sunkyu Park, Namkyoo |
| contents | Graphene plasmonics has become a highlighted research area due to the outstanding properties of deep-subwavelength plasmon excitation, long relaxation time, and electro-optical tunability. Although the giant conductivity of a graphene layer enables the low-dimensional confinement of light, the atomic scale of the layer thickness is severely mismatched with optical mode sizes, which impedes the efficient tuning of graphene plasmon modes from the degraded light-graphene overlap. Inspired by gap plasmon modes in noble metals, here we propose low-dimensional graphene gap plasmon waves for large light-graphene overlap factor. We show that gap plasmon waves exhibit superior in-plane and out-of-plane field concentrations on graphene compared to those of edge or wire-like graphene plasmons. By adjusting the chemical property of the graphene layer, efficient and linear modulation of graphene gap plasmon modes is also achieved. Our results provide potential opportunities to low-dimensional graphene plasmonic devices with strong tunability. |
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| spellingShingle | Low-dimensional gap plasmons for enhanced light-graphene interactions Kim, Yunjung Yu, Sunkyu Park, Namkyoo Optics Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Graphene plasmonics has become a highlighted research area due to the outstanding properties of deep-subwavelength plasmon excitation, long relaxation time, and electro-optical tunability. Although the giant conductivity of a graphene layer enables the low-dimensional confinement of light, the atomic scale of the layer thickness is severely mismatched with optical mode sizes, which impedes the efficient tuning of graphene plasmon modes from the degraded light-graphene overlap. Inspired by gap plasmon modes in noble metals, here we propose low-dimensional graphene gap plasmon waves for large light-graphene overlap factor. We show that gap plasmon waves exhibit superior in-plane and out-of-plane field concentrations on graphene compared to those of edge or wire-like graphene plasmons. By adjusting the chemical property of the graphene layer, efficient and linear modulation of graphene gap plasmon modes is also achieved. Our results provide potential opportunities to low-dimensional graphene plasmonic devices with strong tunability. |
| title | Low-dimensional gap plasmons for enhanced light-graphene interactions |
| topic | Optics Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.02119 |