• 文献标题:   Visualization of nano-plasmons in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   DAHAL HP, MUNIZ RA, HAAS S, GRAF MJ, BALATSKY AV
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, plasmon, tightbinding model, impurity, quantitative visualization
  • 出版物名称:   PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE
  • ISSN:   1478-6435
  • 通讯作者地址:   Los Alamos Natl Lab
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1080/14786435.2011.611827
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

We study localized plasmons at the nanoscale (nano-plasmons) in graphene. The collective excitations of induced charge density modulations in graphene are drastically changed in the vicinity of a single impurity compared to graphene's bulk behavior. The dispersion of nano-plasmons depends on the number of electrons and the sign, strength and size of the impurity potential. Due to this rich parameter space the calculated dispersions are intrinsically multidimensional requiring an advanced visualization tool for their efficient analysis, which can be achieved with parallel rendering. To overcome the problem of analyzing thousands of very complex spatial patterns of nano-plasmonic modes, we take a combined visual and quantitative approach to investigate the excitations on the two-dimensional graphene lattice. Our visual and quantitative analysis shows that impurities trigger the formation of localized plasmonic excitations of various symmetries. We visually identify dipolar, quad-rupolar and radial modes, and quantify the spatial distributions of induced charges.