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Design, Fabrication, and Experimental Characterization of Plasmonic Photoconductive Terahertz Emitters
Published on: July 8, 2013
Intrinsic terahertz plasmons and magnetoplasmons in large scale monolayer graphene
I Crassee1, M Orlita, M Potemski
1Département de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université de Genève, 1211 Genève, Switzerland. Iris.Crassee@unige.ch
Abstract:
We show that in graphene epitaxially grown on SiC the Drude absorption is transformed into a strong terahertz plasmonic peak due to natural nanoscale inhomogeneities, such as substrate terraces and wrinkles. The excitation of the plasmon modifies dramatically the magneto-optical response and in particular the Faraday rotation. This makes graphene a unique playground for plasmon-controlled magneto-optical phenomena thanks to a cyclotron mass 2 orders of magnitude smaller than in conventional plasmonic materials such as noble metals.

