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隧道耦合石墨烯层中的等离子体激元:具有量子级联增益的后向波

Plasmons in tunnel-coupled graphene layers: backward waves with quantum cascade gain

Dmitry Svintsov, Zhanna Devizorova, Taiichi Otsuji, Victor Ryzhii

摘要:

由石墨烯和相关层状材料组成的范德华异质结构中的等离子体激元表现出深亚波长限制和大的传播长度。在这封信中,我们表明,石墨烯-绝缘体-石墨烯隧道结构可以作为等离子体增益介质。增益源于受激电子隧穿伴随着层间粒子数反转下相干等离子体激元的发射。在对应于具有共线动量的电子状态之间的跃迁的频率和层间电压的特定值下,具有等离子体发射的隧穿概率似乎是共振大的-这是石墨烯的线性能带结构所特有的特征。等离子体激元的色散由于隧穿也经历了相当大的转变,在几个频率范围内表现出负群速度。

英文摘要:

Plasmons in van der Waals heterostructures comprised of graphene and related layered materials demonstrate deep subwavelength confinement and large propagation length. In this letter, we show that graphene-insulator-graphene tunnel structures can serve as plasmonic gain media. The gain stems from the stimulated electron tunneling accompanied by the emission of coherent plasmons under interlayer population inversion. The probability of tunneling with plasmon emission appears to be resonantly large at certain values of frequency and interlayer voltage corresponding to the transitions between electron states with collinear momenta - a feature unique to the linear band structure of graphene. The dispersion of plasmons undergoes a considerable transformation due to the tunneling as well, demonstrating negative group velocity in several frequency ranges.

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