Damping pathways of mid-infrared plasmons in graphene nanostructures

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 394-399

  Yan, Hugen ^a   Low, Tony ^a   Zhu, Wenjuan ^a   Wu, Yanqing ^a   Freitag, Marcus ^a   Li, Xuesong ^a   Guinea, Francisco ^b   Avouris, Phaedon ^a   Xia, Fengnian ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE OSCILLATIONS; DAMPING CHANNEL; DIAMOND LIKE CARBON; GRAPHENE PLASMONS; OPTICAL PHONONS; PLASMON DISPERSION; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

DAMPING; GRAPHENE; INFRARED DEVICES; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHONONS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84877576635     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.57     Document Type: Article

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