Quantum nonlocal effects in individual and interacting graphene nanoribbons

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Silveiro, Iván ^a   Ortega, Juan Manuel Plaza ^a   García De Abajo, F Javier ^a,b  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

graphene; graphene plasmons; graphene ribbons; metamaterials; plasmonics

Indexed keywords

FERMI LEVEL; INFRARED DEVICES; METAMATERIALS; NANORIBBONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ELECTRO-OPTICAL MODULATION; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; GRAPHENE PLASMONS; GRAPHENE RIBBONS; NANO METER RANGE; PLASMON FREQUENCY; PLASMONICS; QUANTUM MECHANICAL MODEL;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84927749688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2015.16     Document Type: Article

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