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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 21: Transport: Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes

TT 21.1: Talk

Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 15:45–16:00, EB 202

Electromagnetic response of graphene. — •Sergey Mikhailov and Klaus Ziegler — Institute for Physics, University of Augsburg, 86135 Augsburg, Germany

Recently discovered new carbon based material - graphene - demonstrates a number of interesting and unusual transport and optical properties. Our recent predictions of a new transverse electromagnetic mode in graphene [1] and of its strongly non-linear electromagnetic behavior [2] shows that this material can be used in terahertz electronics for higher-harmonics generation at microwave and terahertz frequencies. In this work we study the influence of the self-consistent field effects, the radiative decay and the scattering on the non-linear electromagnetic response of graphene, and find the optimal experimental conditions, under which the higher harmonics generation effect can be observed in this material.

[1] S. A. Mikhailov, K. Ziegler, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 016803 (2007).

[2] S. A. Mikhailov, Europhys. Lett. 79, 27002 (2007).