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Scattering of surface plasmons on graphene by a discontinuity in surface conductivity

Rejaei, B ; Sharif University of Technology | 2015

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/17/7/075002
  3. Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing , 2015
  4. Abstract:
  5. The scattering of graphene surface plasmons from an arbitrary, one-dimensional discontinuity in graphene surface conductivity is treated analytically by an exact solution of the quasi-static integral equation for surface current density in the spectral domain. It is found that the reflection and transmission coefficients are not governed by the Fresnel formulas obtained by means of the effective medium approach. Furthermore, the reflection coefficient generally exhibits an anomalous reflection phase, which has so far only been reported for the particular case of reflection from abrupt edges. This anomalous phase becomes frequency-independent in the regime where the effect of inter-band transitions on graphene conductivity is negligible. The results are in excellent agreement with full-wave electromagnetic simulations, and can serve as a basis for the analysis of inhomogeneous graphene layers with a piecewise-constant conductivity profile
  6. Keywords:
  7. Electric conductivity ; Graphene ; Integral equations ; Plasmons ; Scattering ; Anomalous reflection ; Effective medium approaches ; Frequency independent ; Full-wave electromagnetic simulation ; Inter-band transition ; Reflection and transmission coefficients ; Surface current density ; Surface plasmons ; Surface scattering
  8. Source: Journal of Optics (United Kingdom) ; Volume 17, Issue 7 , June , 2015 ; 20408978 (ISSN)
  9. URL: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2040-8978/17/7/075002/meta;jsessionid=54E46F9BD7E600AFFA5DC02D3AADD5D7.c3.iopscience.cld.iop.org