Strong Coupling in the Far-Infrared between Graphene Plasmons and the Surface Optical Phonons of Silicon Dioxide

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1151-1155

  Luxmoore, Isaac John ^a   Gan, Choon How ^a   Liu, Peter Qiang ^b   Valmorra, Federico ^b   Li, Penglei ^a   Faist, Jérôme ^b   Nash, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CVD graphene; infrared spectroscopy; nanoribbons; plasmonics

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; GRAPHENE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NANORIBBONS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHONONS; SILICA;

CVD GRAPHENE; DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; PLASMONIC RESONANCES; PLASMONICS; RANDOM PHASE APPROXIMATIONS; SILICONDIOXIDE SUBSTRATES; SURFACE OPTICAL PHONON MODES; SURFACE OPTICAL PHONONS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84925855627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500233s     Document Type: Article

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