• 文献标题:   Transformation Optics Using Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   VAKIL A, ENGHETA N
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  • 出版物名称:   SCIENCE
  • ISSN:   0036-8075 EI 1095-9203
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Penn
  • 被引频次:   1679
  • DOI:   10.1126/science.1202691
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

Metamaterials and transformation optics play substantial roles in various branches of optical science and engineering by providing schemes to tailor electromagnetic fields into desired spatial patterns. We report a theoretical study showing that by designing and manipulating spatially inhomogeneous, nonuniform conductivity patterns across a flake of graphene, one can have this material as a one-atom-thick platform for infrared metamaterials and transformation optical devices. Varying the graphene chemical potential by using static electric field yields a way to tune the graphene conductivity in the terahertz and infrared frequencies. Such degree of freedom provides the prospect of having different "patches" with different conductivities on a single flake of graphene. Numerous photonic functions and metamaterial concepts can be expected to follow from such a platform.