Ultrafast Devices Based on Surface Plasmons on Bulk Metal and Graphene: Switches, Modulators, and Microscope Electron Sources

J Zhao, J Liu, R Jiang, K Yang, B Zeng - Physical Review Applied, 2023 - APS
Optical modulation and switch are crucial in photonics technologies, and microscope
electron sources are essential in imaging. However, it is an obstacle to integrating those …

Plasmons in graphene nanoribbons

F Karimi, I Knezevic - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We calculate the dielectric function and plasmonic response of armchair (aGNRs) and
zigzag (zGNRs) graphene nanoribbons using the self-consistent-field approach within the …

Frequency-dependent substrate screening of excitons in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors

A Steinhoff, TO Wehling, M Rösner - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Atomically thin layers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) exhibit exceptionally
strong Coulomb interaction between charge carriers due to the two-dimensional carrier …

Plasmon-enhanced optical nonlinearity in graphene nanomeshes

F Karimi, S Mitra, S Soleimanikahnoj, I Knezevic - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Using the density-matrix formalism, we show that graphene nanomeshes (GNMs)—
graphene sheets patterned with antidots—have large plasmon-enhanced nonlinear optical …

Perturbation tuning of plasmon modes in semiconductor armchair nanoribbons

M Yarmohammadi - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Motivated by recent demands of the nanoplasmonic community, quasi-one-dimensional
nanoribbons have attracted significant attention as promising materials in logic applications …

Nonlinear optical response in graphene nanoribbons: The critical role of electron scattering

F Karimi, AH Davoody, I Knezevic - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Nonlinear nanophotonics has many potential applications, such as in mode locking,
frequency-comb generation, and all-optical switching. The development of materials with …

Controlling plasmon modes and damping in buckled two-dimensional material open systems

A Iurov, G Gumbs, D Huang… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Full ranges of both hybrid plasmon-mode dispersions and their damping are studied
systematically by our recently developed mean-field theory in open systems involving a …

Quantum transport simulation of high-power 4.6-μm quantum cascade lasers

O Jonasson, S Mei, F Karimi, J Kirch, D Botez, L Mawst… - Photonics, 2016 - mdpi.com
We present a quantum transport simulation of a 4.6-μ m quantum cascade laser (QCL)
operating at high power near room temperature. The simulation is based on a rigorous …

Tunable plasmon-enhanced second-order optical nonlinearity in transition metal dichalcogenide nanotriangles

F Karimi, S Soleimanikahnoj, I Knezevic - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
The development of nanomaterials with a large nonlinear susceptibility is essential for
nonlinear nanophotonics. We show that transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) …

Partially coherent electron transport in terahertz quantum cascade lasers based on a Markovian master equation for the density matrix

O Jonasson, F Karimi, I Knezevic - Journal of Computational Electronics, 2016 - Springer
We derive a Markovian master equation for the single-electron density matrix, applicable to
quantum cascade lasers (QCLs). The equation conserves the positivity of the density matrix …