Micro and Nanostructures ( IF 2.7 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-19 , DOI: 10.1016/j.spmi.2021.106955 Yawar Mohammadi
We study plasmon modes in doped AA-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) within the nearest-neighbor tight-binding and the random phase approximation. We obtain closed analytical expressions for the polarizability function which are used to calculate the low-energy dispersion relations of and the numerical results for both acoustic and optical plasmon modes. Our results reveal the potential of AA-stacked BLG to be used as a tunable plasmonic device. In particular we find that the long-wavelength acoustic plasmon disperses as with a phase space which shrinks and vanishes as the chemical potential approaches the interlayer hopping energy, preventing the existence of long-lived acoustic plasmon. Furthermore, we show that AA-stacked BLG support long-lived optical plasmon only when the condition is satisfied, specially indicating Landau damping of the optical plasmon in undoped AA-staked BLG even at long-wavelength limit. We also find that the optical plasmon mode disperses as ω− ≈ Δ + Cq2 with constants that can be tuned by tuning the chemical potential.
中文翻译:
掺杂 AA 堆叠双层石墨烯中的可调等离子体模式
我们研究了最近邻紧束缚和随机相位近似内的掺杂 AA 堆叠双层石墨烯 (BLG) 中的等离子体模式。我们获得了极化函数的闭合解析表达式,用于计算声学和光学等离子体模式的低能量色散关系和数值结果。我们的结果揭示了 AA 堆叠 BLG 用作可调等离子体装置的潜力。特别是我们发现长波长声学等离子激元分散为随着化学势接近层间跳跃能量,相空间会缩小并消失,从而阻止了长寿命的声学等离子体的存在。此外,我们表明 AA 堆叠的 BLG 仅在以下条件下才支持长寿命的光学等离子体满足,特别是表明即使在长波长限制下,未掺杂的 AA 桩 BLG 中的光学等离子体的朗道阻尼。我们还发现光学等离子体模式以ω − ≈ Δ + Cq 2 的形式分散,其常数可以通过调节化学势来调节。