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Fabrication of Gate-tunable Graphene Devices for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies with Coulomb Impurities
Published on: July 24, 2015
Tunable Bragg defect mode in one-dimensional photonic crystal containing a graphene-embedded defect layer
Abstract:
Using the transfer matrix method, the transmission properties of defective one-dimensional photonic crystal are analyzed in the terahertz region. The defect layer is composed of a graphene-embedded dielectric layer. We investigate the variation of the defect mode's frequency as a function of graphene chemical potential for different values of incident angles. The numerical results show that the frequency of the defect mode can be tuned effectively as the chemical potential of graphene nanolayers changes using an applied gate voltage. The present results can be useful in designing tunable graphene-based photonic devices such as filters and sensors in terahertz regions.
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