Moiré graphene nanoribbons: nearly perfect absorptions and highly efficient reflections with wide angles

  • Zhang H
  • Qin H
  • Zhang W
  • et al.
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Abstract

The strong absorption and reflection from atomically thin graphene nanoribbons has been demonstrated over the past decade. However, due to the significant band dispersion of graphene nanoribbons, the angle of incident wave has remained limited to a very narrow range. Obtaining strong absorption and reflection with a wide range of incident angles from atomically thin graphene layers has remained an unsolvable problem. Here, we construct a tunable moiré superlattice composed of a pair of graphene nanoribbon arrays to achieve this goal. By designing the interlayer coupling between two graphene nanoribbon arrays with mismatched periods, the moiré flat bands and the localization of their eigen-fields realized. Based on the moiré flat bands of graphene nanoribbons, highly efficient reflection and nearly perfect absorption was achieved with a wide range of incident angles. Even more interesting, is how these novel phenomena can be tuned through the adjustment of the graphene's Fermi energy, either electrostatically or chemically. Our designed moiré graphene nanoribbons suggest a promising platform to engineer moiré physics with tunable behaviors, and may have potential applications in the field of wide-angle absorbers and reflectors in the mid-infrared region.

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Zhang, H. Z., Qin, H. Y., Zhang, W. X., Huang, L., & Zhang, X. D. (2022). Moiré graphene nanoribbons: nearly perfect absorptions and highly efficient reflections with wide angles. Optics Express, 30(2), 2219. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.445348

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