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Surface plasmon enhanced absorption and suppressed transmission in periodic arrays of graphene ribbons

A. Yu. Nikitin, F. Guinea, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, and L. Martin-Moreno
Phys. Rev. B 85, 081405(R) – Published 21 February 2012

Abstract

Resonance diffraction in the periodic array of graphene microribbons is theoretically studied following a recent experiment [L. Ju et al., Nature Nanotech. 6, 630 (2011)]. Systematic studies over a wide range of parameters are presented. It is shown that a much richer resonant picture would be observable for higher relaxation times of charge carriers: More resonances appear and transmission can be totally suppressed. The comparison with the absorption cross-section of a single ribbon shows that the resonant features of the periodic array are associated with leaky plasmonic modes. The longest-wavelength resonance provides the highest visibility of the transmission dip and has the strongest spectral shift and broadening with respect to the single-ribbon resonance, due to collective effects.

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  • Received 30 December 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.081405

©2012 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

A. Yu. Nikitin1,2,*, F. Guinea3, F. J. Garcia-Vidal4, and L. Martin-Moreno1,†

  • 1Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón and Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain
  • 2A.Ya. Usikov Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 12 Acad. Proskura Street, 61085 Kharkov, Ukraine
  • 3Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Cantoblanco, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
  • 4Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain

  • *alexeynik@rambler.ru
  • lmm@unizar.es

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Vol. 85, Iss. 8 — 15 February 2012

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