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Damping of plasmons in graphene

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The damping of surface plasmons hinders the realization of nanophotonic devices. Researchers have now uncovered some of the mid-infrared damping mechanisms for plasmons in graphene, which offer a number of unique and interesting properties.

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Figure 1: Sketch of the experiment by Yan and co-workers4.

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  1. Hrvoje Buljan and Marinko Jablan are with the Department of Physics, University of Zagreb, Bijenička c. 32, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia,

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  2. Marin Soljačić is at the Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA,

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Buljan, H., Jablan, M. & Soljačić, M. Damping of plasmons in graphene. Nature Photon 7, 346–348 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2013.103

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