Plasmons in graphene moiré superlattices

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1217-1222

  Ni, G X ^a,b   Wang, H ^c   Wu, J S ^b   Fei, Z ^b   Goldflam, M D ^b   Keilmann, F ^d   Ozyilmaz B ^a   Castro Neto, A H ^a   Xie, X M ^c   Fogler, M M ^b   Basov, D N ^b  

^a National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATTICE MISMATCH; PLASMONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

COLLECTIVE MODES; COLLECTIVE OSCILLATIONS; DYNAMICAL RESPONSE; ELECTRONIC BAND STRUCTURE; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; INTER-BAND TRANSITION; SUPER-LATTICE STRUCTURES; SURFACE PLASMONS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84947739879     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4425     Document Type: Article

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