A primer on surface plasmon-polaritons in graphene

• Author(s): Bludov, Yuliy V. ; Ferreira, Aires ; Peres, N. M. R. ; Vasilevskiy, Mikhail
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/27112
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Graphene; Surface polariton
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

We discuss the properties of surface plasmons-polaritons in graphene and describe four possible ways of coupling electromagnetic radiation in the terahertz (THz) spectral range to this type of surface waves: (i) the attenuated total reflection (ATR) method us- ing a prism in the Otto configuration, (ii) graphene micro-ribbon arrays or monolayers with modulated conductivity, (iii) a metal stripe on top of the graphene layer, and (iv) graphene-based gratings. The text provides a number of original results along with their detailed derivation and discussion.