Published In

Journal of Applied Physics

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-2014

Subjects

Graphene -- Dispersion relations, Plasmons (Physics), Wave guides

Abstract

The exact dispersion relations of the transverse magnetic surface plasmons (SPs) supported by a graphene parallel plate waveguide (PPWG), surrounded on one or both sides by Kerr-type nonlinear media, are obtained analytically. It is shown that if self-focusing nonlinear materials are chosen as the surrounding media, the SPs localization length (LL) is decreased, while their propagation length (PL) remains unchanged, as compared to those of a typical graphene PPWG. Moreover, PL and LL of the SPs are considerably affected by adjusting nonlinear parts of the dielectric permittivities of the nonlinear media. It is found that using an appropriate defocusing nonlinear material as a substrate of the graphene PPWG, which is surrounded on one side by the nonlinear medium, leads to noticeable enhancement of the propagation and localization characteristics of the surface plasmons. The results presented here can be useful for enhancing capabilities of plasmonic devices based on the graphene PPWG for sensing and waveguide applications.

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Originally published in the Journal of Applied Physics, ©2014 AIP Publishing. Version of record can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4865435.

DOI

10.106311.4865435

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/11521

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