Graphene epsilon-near-zero plasmonic crystals
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Plasmonic crystals are a class of optical metamaterials that consist of engineered structures at the sub-wavelength scale. They exhibit optical properties that are not found under normal circumstances in nature, such as negative-refractive-index and epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) behavior. Graphene-based plasmonic crystals present linear, elliptical, or hyperbolic dispersion relations that exhibit ENZ behavior, normal or negative-index diffraction. The optical properties can be dynamically tuned by controlling the operating frequency and the doping level of graphene. We propose a construction approach to expand the frequency range of the ENZ behavior. We demonstrate how the combination of a host material with an optical Lorentzian response in combination with a graphene conductivity that follows a Drude model leads to an ENZ condition spanning a large frequency range.
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Proceedings of the Sixth Annual ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication
