Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the graphene which has been touted as a future material of choice for a dazzlingly wide range of applications based on the array of properties thought to be unique to graphene: Dirac-like dispersion with large Fermi velocity, chirality, pseudo-spin, forbidden backscattering, and others. In this talk we show that many heterostructures based on III-V (InGaSb) and II-VI (HgCdTe) semiconductors can be engineered to have all the above properties nearly indistinguishable from those of graphene, while adding certain degree of versatility, such as ability to have not only 2-dimensional, but also 3-dimensional and 1-dimensional structures with graphene-like properties. This may be important for many applications, and in this talk we shall concentrate on the ones in plasmonics and metamaterials.

Department of Physics Condensed Matter Seminar Series

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Jacob B. Khurgin (2012), "Is Graphene Alone in the Universe?," https://nanohub.org/resources/16047.

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1. graphene
2. hetrostructures
3. III-V materials/devices
4. metamaterials
5. nanophotonincs
6. plasmonics