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Plasmons get tuned up

Plasmons in graphene nanoribbons have widely tunable frequencies and interact strongly with light.

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Figure 1: Transmission spectra of a graphene nanoribbon array show plasmon resonances that are tunable with the carrier density as the gate voltage (Vgate) is varied.

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Rana, F. Plasmons get tuned up. Nature Nanotech 6, 611–612 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2011.170

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