Abstract
This paper reports a study of the reflectance of the optical sensors based on graphene under uniform strain. Assuming the graphene layer is surrounded by two different semi-infinite dielectric media, the generalized Fresnel coefficients are derived as a function of usual quantities (e.g., dielectric constants, incident angles, and strain) and anisotropic optical conductivity. The strain not only changes the electronic band structure but also can be employed to tune the electronic collective excitations (plasmons) and thus the optical reflectance of graphene monolayers. One of the most common techniques for plasmon excitation is the Kretschmann configuration. It is based on the observation of a sharp minimum in the reflection coefficient versus the angle (or wavelength) curve. Because strain induces anisotropy in graphene optical conductivity the strain-dependent orientation plays an important role to manipulate the variation of graphene plasmon energy, which may be useful to synchronize graphene properties in plasmonic devices to enhance light-matter interactions.
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Introduction
Surface plasmons (SPs) are transverse magnetic (TM) polarized electromagnetic waves coupled with charge density oscillations (plasmons) traveling along the metal–dielectric interface. The electric field associated with these oscillations decay exponentially into the dielectric medium making plasmons extremely sensitive to the refractive index of the medium. When the wave vector of the incident light matches the wave vector of the SP wave, the SP resonantly couples with the incident light, and a remarkable electric field enhancement can be realized, and the so-called SP resonance occurs. Usually, surface plasmons can be excited via evanescent waves in the Kretchmann configuration utilizing high-index prisms where the wavevector mismatch between vacuum and SP is compensated [1]. Once the SP is excited in the Kretchmann configuration, partially of the energy associated to the incident electromagnetic radiation will be transferred to the SP, and a sharp minimum is observed in the reflectance versus angle (or wavelength) curve. The ability of controlling strong light-matter interaction through surface plasmons in metals has driven the field of plasmonics. Additionally, increasing research has been carried out to investigate and manipulate SP for new sensing functionalities. Based on this principle, different architectures of plasmonic sensors involving metals have been designed in previous years [2, 3]. However, the major obstacle in developing plasmonic applications in metallic devices is dissipative loss, which limits the propagation length of surface plasmons and broadens the bandwidth of surface plasmon resonances and their surfaces easily oxidize degrading their plasmonic characteristics [4]. To overwhelm these deficiencies, some new structures have been proposed to investigate surface plasmon resonances for new plasmonic materials; among them, graphene has emerged as an alternative, unique two- dimensional material able to extend the field of plasmonics for terahertz to mid-infrared applications [5,6,7]. Graphene is a two-dimensional material made of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal lattice, graphene material has attracted tremendous attention due to electrical, optical, and chemical properties which can be tunable to external parameters, including voltage-induced doping, selective substrate interactions, or strain engineering. Two-dimensional plasmons in graphene exhibit unique optoelectronic properties and mediate extraordinary light–matter interactions. Therefore, these exceptional properties make graphene a promising candidate for innovative plasmonic devices and possible applications in photonics, optoelectronics, and in sensor technologies [8]. Due to the fundamental mismatch between the surface plasmon supported by a graphene monolayer and that of wave vector of light, such coupling is basically weak and plasmonic crystals are required to enhance it to achieve adequate efficiency for practical device applications. Concerning this purpose, artificially engineering structures (or metamaterials) have been used as a platform for improving light-mater interaction in the last years. Hence, in the context of potential applications the exploration of graphene plasmons with metamaterials plays an important task in plasmonics and, studying the interactions of the plasmon modes in multilayer graphene structures with metallic or dielectric substrates offer new opportunities for applications and fundamental studies of collective electron excitations in plasmonic metamaterials for biological and chemical sensing [9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17], photodetectors [18] and optoelectronics [19, 20]. Additionally, plasmon properties in double-layer graphene and multilayer graphene systems considering the effects of temperature, spin-polarized in the presence of the external magnetic field, and applied electric field have been reported [21,22,23,24,25].
When a graphene layer is subjected to mechanical strain, it does not break the lattice symmetry but somewhat the high-symmetrical points of the Brillouin zone are modified in such a way the Dirac cones located in graphene at points K and K´ move in opposite directions [26, 27]. It has been shown that monolayer graphene can tolerate stretching deformations as large as 20% without substantially destroying its crystal structure but opens a gap above this threshold.
This large elastic deformation affects substantially the graphene energy band structure and therefore, it is thermal, optical properties and other plasmonic properties [28,29,30]. On the other hand, the influence of the strain on several electronic properties produces also a significantly changes on the electronic polarizability and thereby collective electronic excitations associated with anisotropic honeycomb lattice [31,32,33].
In this work, we theoretically investigate plasmon dispersion and optical reflectance of mono graphene structures under uniform strain. For this purpose, we make use of the linear response theory and the Kubo formalism to calculate the induced charge density, related with the anisotropic optical conductivity through the charge conservation equation. We have found analytical and numerical results displaying the effect of strain on the electronic charge density excitations in the long-wave limit by varying several parameters, as the angle given the direction of the applied strain, the separation of the layers, etc. It is worth noting that collective charge density excitations and optical reflectance can efficiently controlled by strain, and it is possible to overcome the mismatch between the momentum of the surface plasmon and that of incident radiation and thereby improve the light-matter interaction. Usually, surface plasmon can be excited via evanescent waves using the Kretschmann configuration, Once, surface plasmon is excited in the Kretschmann configuration, a sharp minimum is observed in the reflection coefficient versus incident angle (or wavelength) curve. Recently [34], a theoretical study of the dispersion of linearly polarized light between two dielectric media separated by an anisotropic graphene under oblique incidence has been reported considering the unstrained high-frequency optical conductivity (equal to e2/4ħ for ħω > 2Ef where Ef is the Fermi energy), the optical response of graphene is limited by the fine-structure constant α ≈ 1/137, which describes the coupling between light and relativistic electrons in quantum electrodynamics.
Additionally, plasmons at low frequencies in anisotropic Dirac systems have been theoretically studied [35], these authors showed that the strong anisotropy can be used to guide the plasmon modes with new properties in the field of plasmonics. Also, plasmons modes in one and double-layer black phosphorous structures under uniaxial strain have been reported [36], they found that the strain-dependent orientation can be considered to control the variations of the plasmon energy.
Theoretically Model
In-plane graphene sheet under uniform strain appreciably modify its electronic band structure around the Fermi level, which induces anisotropy in the hoping parameters in the tight-band model. Our studied system, selecting the Cartesian system in the x-axis along the graphene zigzag direction of the lattice, the strain tensor reads
where ε is the strain modulus, θ denotes the angle between the applied tension and the x-axis, and ρ being the Poisson ratio. The shift of the Dirac cones under uniaxial strain can be explained and quantitatively described by a combination of a tight-binding approximation and linear elasticity theory [37]. The frequency-dependent conductivity tensor of graphene under uniform strain can be written as [38]
where Δ = -β \(\overleftrightarrow{\boldsymbol\varepsilon}\), β ~ 1.1 is the electron Gruneisen parameter, and \(\sigma (\omega )\) is the optical conductivity which considers the contribution of the intraband and interband electronic transitions in unstrained graphene,
and
Within the linear-response theory, plasmon modes can be described as the zeros of the dielectric function ε(q,ω), which depends on the density–density correlation function, i.e., the polarization of the non-interacting electron gas \(\varepsilon \left(q,\omega \right)=1-{V}_{q}\Pi (q,\omega )\) and \({V}_{q}=2\pi {e}^{2}/{\varepsilon }_{0}q\) is the Fourier transform of the two-dimensional Coulomb electron–electron interaction and ε0 the dielectric constant of the medium. Because we are interested in the linear-response function to smoothly varying external potential φext(q,ω), the charge density induced in the two-dimensional electron gas in graphene up first order approximation in φext(q,ω) is \({\rho }_{ind}\left(q,\omega \right)={e}^{2}\Pi (q,\omega ){\varphi }_{ext}(q,\omega )\) and satisfies the usual continuity equation of electrodynamics [39]
Finally, from Eqs. (8)–(10) and at low energy approximation such that ω < < 2Ef the interband part Eq. (10) is negligible comparing to the intraband part. Therefore, in the low energy approximation range, the optical conductivity is well described by the Drude-like surface conductivity. For Ef > > kBT the optical conductivity depends linearly on the Fermi energy
where q = q(cosφ, sinφ) is the wave vector associated with the charge fluctuations induced in the strained graphene. Thus, it follows that the electron polarizability for graphene under uniaxial strain results in (ω > > Γ)
As can be observed, in linear response theory, the deformed graphene presents an anisotropic optical response given by Eq. (2) and as a consequence, the non-interacting graphene electron polarizability depends on the strain modulus and the direction of the applied uniform strain. It is worth to noting that in the absence of strain, i.e., ε = 0, the graphene electron polarizability at long wavelength approximation is recovered [40]. One thus finds, that at low frequencies with the graphene electron polarizability, Eq. (7), and equaling the dielectric function ε(q,ω) = 1 – Vq \(\Pi\left(q,\omega \right)\) to zero, we arrive at the following equation for the surface plasmon of graphene under uniform strain
It can be seen the plasmon energy remains the dependence of q1/2 which is a characteristic of the two-dimension electron gas system, and it is maximum when it propagates perpendicular to the applied strain and minimum for θ = φ. These latter properties of the graphene plasmon modes allow us to manipulate the plasmon energy and enhance light-matter interactions in plasmonic metamaterials. In Fig. 2a, the optical plasmon modes are depicted as a function of the wave vector for different values of the stretching in the amchair direction (θ – φ = 0), as it is shown the plasmon energy decreases for large values of the applied strain in this particular direction. On the other hand, the dependence of optical plasmons as a function of the plasmon wave vector is shown in Fig. 2b for different directions of the applied strain. As can be observed, the optical plasmon energy is free landau damping in the long wave limit and it increase with increasing values of the direction of the applied stretching and reach its maximum value when the plasmon wave vector and the applied strain are orthogonal to each other (θ-φ = π/2). However, as q increases, it is expected that the plasmon dispersion relation of the graphene layer under strain decay into the continuum of the interband single particle excitation region.
Generalized Fresnel Equations
To investigate the reflection of a linearly polarized electromagnetic wave through two semi-infinite dielectric media with dielectric constants ɛ1 and ɛ2 separated by a deformed graphene layer located at z = 0, whose optical conductivity is characterized by the second-order symmetric tensor given by Eq. (2). As depicted in Fig. 1, if the x–y plane is the interface plane, for wave propagation in the x direction, the magnetic field for p polarization, the magnetic field is polarized along the y-direction and can be written in the form H = (0, Aeiqz + Be−iqz, 0)eiκx − iωt = (0, Φp, 0) and the electric field associated with this electromagnetic wave is \(\boldsymbol E=-c/i\omega\varepsilon_s(-\partial_z\Phi_p,0,\partial_x\Phi_p)\) with qs = (εs ω2/c2-κ2)1/2 (s = 1,2) and c the light velocity in vacuum. Furthermore, for s polarization the electric filed is polarized along the y-direction, i.e., E = (0, Ceiqz + De−iqz, 0)eiκx−iωt = (0, Φs, 0) and \(\boldsymbol H=c/i\omega\mu(-\partial_z\Phi_s,0,\partial_x\Phi_s)\) with \(\mu =1\), the magnetic permittivity.
The electric and magnetic fields at the interface can be related by the following boundary conditions
where n is the unit vector normal to the surface and J is the surface current density of the graphene under uniform strain, and is given by J = σE, namely
with σij being the components of the graphene tensor conductivity. Applying the boundary condition from Eq. (9), the field coefficients in the medium 1 can be related with the field coefficients of the medium 2 as follows [34, 41, 42],
Here, D represents the transfer matrix connecting the coefficients at adjacent monolayer graphene and it is given by
As can be observed from these equations, in general, in the reflected waves the polarization of the incident wave is not conserved due to the anisotropy of the tensor conductivity associated to the graphene under uniform strain. In addition, the transmitted waves also include both s and p polarization waves. Namely, the incident s or p light polarization is only preserved if \({\sigma }_{xy}=0\). With the transfer matrix, we can easily calculate the optical spectra such as reflection, transmission, and absorption for the deformed graphene. Assuming that the incident light is p-polarized, Eq. (11) reduces to [42]
in terms of the elements of the transfer matrix D, the reflection and transmission coefficients can be written as
where the first and second terms on the right size of Eq. (14) represent the contribution of the reflectance and transmission of p and s waves, respectively. It is worth mention that when the strain vanishes (ɛ = 0) thus \({\sigma }_{xy}=0\), and the reflection and transmission coefficient for a single graphene layer embedded in dielectric constants ɛ1 and ɛ2 are like that obtained in Ref. [43].
Numerical Results
As we mentioned before, the zeros of the dielectric constant of monolayer graphene under uniform strain give the relation dispersion of the plasmon modes given by Eq. (8) which in general, will depend on the graphene parameters and the applied strain. Graphene plasmon excitations exist and are free landau damping into the intraband and interband single particle excitations where \(\omega >\gamma q\) and \(2{E}_{f}-\gamma q>\omega\) and the electron polarizability \(\Pi\left(q, \omega \right)\) is real In Fig. 2a, the optical plasmon modes are depicted as a function of the wave vector for different values of the stretching in the direction such that θ – φ = 0, as it is shown the plasmon energy decreases for large values of the applied strain along the plasmon propagation. On the other hand, the dependence of optical plasmons as function of the plasmon wave vector for fixed applied strain is shown in Fig. 2b for different directions of the applied strain. As can be observed, the optical plasmon energy is free landau damping in the long wave limit and it increase with increasing the direction of the applied stretching and reach its maximum value when the plasmon wave vector and the applied strain are orthogonal to each other (θ-φ = π/2). However, as q increases, it is expected that the plasmon dispersion relation of the graphene layer under strain decay into the continuum of the interband single particle excitation region. Because strain induces anisotropy in graphene optical conductivity, the strain-dependent orientation plays an important role to manipulate the variations of the graphene plasmon energy, which may be useful to tune graphene properties in plasmonic devices to manipulate light-matter interaction.
Usually, surface plasmon can be excited via evanescent waves in the Kretschmann configuration, utilizing high-index prisms, where the wave vector matching between incident light and surface plasmon is compensated. Once surface plasmon is excited in the Kretschmann configuration, a sharp minimum is observed in the reflection coefficient versus incident angle (or wavelength) curve. Figure 3 shows the variations of the reflectance with the incident angle for different directions of the applied strain and taking the plasmon propagation angle φ = 0. As can be seen, when the angle of the applied strain increases, there is a shift of the resonance peak to lower incident angle and a reduction in the amplitude of the resonance dip. The dip of the surface plasmon resonance curve corresponds to the partial absorption of energy from the incident light to surface plasmons. Thus, it indicates that a greater depth of the dip is better the efficiency of resonance, and this occurs when the applied strain is perpendicular to the direction of the plasmon propagation. In Fig. 4, the reflectance of the monolayer graphene under strain is depicted as a function of the angle of p-polarized incident radiation. One important note from this plot is the shift to lower incident angles of the resonance dip in the reflectance when the strain increases for θ-φ = π/2, i.e., an applied strain perpendicular to the direction of the plasmon propagation. Surface plasmon resonance can be also used to detect biological molecules. This feature is used to design optical biosensors that can measure the refractive index when the biomolecules become adsorbed on the graphene surface and create a layer of refractive index higher than that of the air (ε2 in Fig. 1), resulting in a change in the resonance angle. Figure 5 plots the theoretical reflectance against the resonance angle for different refractive index of the sensing medium for uniaxial strain with the same magnitude ɛ = 0.1, at θ-φ = π/2 and for fixed Fermi energy Ef = 0.5 eV. As can be seen, there is a reduction on the amplitude and a shift on the resonance angle of the minimum of the reflectance curve with increasing refractive index of the sensing medium. Therefore, this plasmonic metamaterials are very sensitive to the changes of refractive index of the dielectric media in the vicinity of the graphene layer. On the other hand, Fig. 6 illustrates the reflectance intensity for uniaxial strain with the same magnitude ɛ = 0.1 for different frequencies of the incident radiation at θ-φ = π/2 and for fixed Fermi energy Ef = 0.5 eV. The reflectance exhibits a maximum dip ω = 2πTHz as compared with ω = 3πTHz and ω = 4πTHz, respectively. These important features indicate that the surface plasmon resonances dip with better excitation corresponds to lower frequencies.
Conclusions
In this study, the collective electronic excitations in monolayer graphene structure were investigated under uniaxial strain. Long-range Coulomb interactions in the deformed graphene lead new set of spectra of surface plasmons, which depend on a certain characteristic parameter of the applied strain. These charge density fluctuations can be excited by light using the Kretchmann configuration. Under this configuration, we derived the Fresnel coefficients for oblique incidence of linearly p-polarized light through two dielectric media with anisotropic graphene layer at the interface. Based on these generalized coefficients it was demonstrated that the light scattering problem cannot be decoupled in pure p-polarized waves. In other words, whenever the nondiagonal conductivity component σxy is not zero, the incident polarization is not conserved. To illustrate our findings, we consider the uniaxial strain monolayer graphene. The strain effects on the reflectance were estimated as a function either of the magnitude or the strain direction. This opens new possibilities for controlling light-matter interaction on graphene structures.
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Lemus, C., de la Cruz, G.G. & Oliva-Leyva, M. Effect of Uniform Strain on Graphene Surface Plasmon Excitations. Plasmonics 18, 727–734 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-023-01798-w
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