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TY - JOUR
T1 - Generation and morphing of plasmons in graphene superlattices
AU - Tomadin, Andrea
AU - Guinea, Francisco
AU - Polini, Marco
PY - 2014/10/15
Y1 - 2014/10/15
N2 - Recent experimental studies on graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have demonstrated that hBN is not only a passive substrate that ensures superb electronic properties of graphene's carriers, but that it actively modifies their massless Dirac fermion character through a periodic moiré potential. Here we present a theory of the plasmon excitation spectrum of massless Dirac fermions in a moiré superlattice. We demonstrate that graphene-hBN stacks offer a rich platform for plasmonics in which control of plasmon modes can occur not only via electrostatic gating but also by adjusting, e.g., the relative crystallographic alignment.
AB - Recent experimental studies on graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have demonstrated that hBN is not only a passive substrate that ensures superb electronic properties of graphene's carriers, but that it actively modifies their massless Dirac fermion character through a periodic moiré potential. Here we present a theory of the plasmon excitation spectrum of massless Dirac fermions in a moiré superlattice. We demonstrate that graphene-hBN stacks offer a rich platform for plasmonics in which control of plasmon modes can occur not only via electrostatic gating but also by adjusting, e.g., the relative crystallographic alignment.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.161406
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.161406
M3 - Journal article
VL - 90
JO - Physical review B
JF - Physical review B
SN - 1098-0121
IS - 16
M1 - 161406
ER -