Electrical switching of infrared light using graphene integration with plasmonic Fano resonant metasurfaces

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 216-227

  Dabidian, Nima ^a   Kholmanov, Iskandar ^b,e   Khanikaev, Alexander B ^c,d   Tatar, Kaya ^a   Trendafilov, Simeon ^a   Mousavi, S Hossein ^a   Magnuson, Carl ^b   Ruoff, Rodney S ^b   Shvets, Gennady ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fano resonance metasurface; graphene; modulation depth; optical switching

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PLASMONS; REFLECTION; RESONANCE;

BEAM STEERING DEVICES; ELECTRICAL SWITCHING; METASURFACE; MODULATION DEPTH; NON-RADIATIVE LOSS; OPTICAL SWITCHING; OPTO-ELECTRONIC MATERIALS; PLASMONIC RESPONSE;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84923365877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph5003279     Document Type: Article

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