{"id":118957,"date":"2021-01-28T10:23:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T18:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/efficiently-converting-light-energy-into-surface-waves-on-graphene"},"modified":"2021-01-28T10:23:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T18:23:58","slug":"efficiently-converting-light-energy-into-surface-waves-on-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/efficiently-converting-light-energy-into-surface-waves-on-graphene","title":{"rendered":"Efficiently Converting Light Energy Into Surface Waves on Graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/efficiently-converting-light-energy-into-surface-waves-on-graphene.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dotty graphene and doping: Whatever it takes for Russia\u2019s record plasmonics to shine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physicists from MIPT and Vladimir State University, Russia, have achieved a nearly 90% efficiency converting light energy into surface waves on graphene. They relied on a laser-like energy conversion scheme and collective resonances. The paper came out in <em>Laser &amp; Photonics Reviews<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Manipulating light at the nanoscale is a task crucial for being able to create ultracompact devices for optical energy conversion and storage. To localize light on such a small scale, researchers convert optical radiation into so-called surface plasmon-polaritons. These SPPs are oscillations propagating along the interface between two materials with drastically different refractive indices \u2014 specifically, 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 2D materials have high refractive indices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dotty graphene and doping: Whatever it takes for Russia\u2019s record plasmonics to shine. Physicists from MIPT and Vladimir State University, Russia, have achieved a nearly 90% efficiency converting light energy into surface waves on graphene. They relied on a laser-like energy conversion scheme and collective resonances. The paper came out in Laser &amp; Photonics Reviews. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118957","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=118957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}