{"id":115947,"date":"2020-11-16T18:22:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T02:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/no-losses-scientists-stuff-graphene-with-light"},"modified":"2020-11-16T18:22:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T02:22:38","slug":"no-losses-scientists-stuff-graphene-with-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/no-losses-scientists-stuff-graphene-with-light","title":{"rendered":"No losses: Scientists stuff graphene with light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/no-losses-scientists-stuff-graphene-with-light.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O,.o.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Physicists from MIPT and Vladimir State University, Russia, have converted light energy into surface waves on graphene with nearly 90% efficiency. They relied on a laser-like energy conversion scheme and collective resonances. The paper was published in Laser &amp; Photonics Reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Manipulating light at the nanoscale is a task crucial for being able to create ultracompact devices for optical <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy<\/a> conversion and storage. To localize light on such a small scale, researchers convert optical radiation into so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/surface\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">surface<\/a> plasmon-polaritons. These SPPs are oscillations propagating along the interface between two materials with drastically different refractive indices\u2014specifically, a metal and a dielectric or air. Depending on the materials chosen, the degree of surface wave localization varies. It is the strongest for light localized on a material only one atomic layer thick, because such 2-D materials have high refractive indices.<\/p>\n<p>The existing schemes for converting light to SPPs on 2-D surfaces have an efficiency of no more than 10%. It is possible to improve that figure by using intermediary signal converters\u2014nano-objects of various chemical compositions and geometries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O,.o. Physicists from MIPT and Vladimir State University, Russia, have converted light energy into surface waves on graphene with nearly 90% efficiency. They relied on a laser-like energy conversion scheme and collective resonances. The paper was published in Laser &amp; Photonics Reviews. Manipulating light at the nanoscale is a task crucial for being able to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,4,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}