Optical Properties Of Graphene

This book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of the optical properties of graphene. During the past decade, graphene, the most ideal and thinnest of all two-dimensional materials, has become one of the most widely studied materials. Its unique properties hold great promise to revolutionize many electronic, optical and opto-electronic devices. The book contains an introductory tutorial and 14 chapters written by experts in areas ranging from fundamental quantum mechanical properties to opto-electronic device applications of graphene.

Contents:Introductory Tutorial (Rolf Binder and Nai-Hang Kwong);Microscopic Theory for the Groundstate and Linear Optical Response of Novel Two-Dimensional Materials with Hexagonal Symmetry (Tineke Stroucken & Stephan W Koch);Raman Spectroscopy of Graphene (Sven Reichardt & Ludger Wirtz);Microscopic View on the Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Graphene (E Malic, T Winzer, F Kadi & A Knorr);Theory of Optical Nonlinearities in Graphene (Jin Luo Cheng, Nathalie Vermeulen & John E Sipe);Nonlinear Optical Experiments on Graphene (Hui Zhao);Optical Response of Graphene under Intense Terahertz Fields (J Zhou and M W Wu);Nonlinear Terahertz Spectroscopy on Multilayer Graphene (Michael Woerner, Thomas Elsaesser & Klaus Reimann);Ultrafast Manipulation of Terahertz Waves using Graphene Metamaterials (Chihun In & Hyunyong Choi);Spectroscopy of Graphene at the Saddle Point (Daniela Wolf, Dong-Hun Chae, Tobias Utika, Patrick Herlinger, Jurgen Smet, Harald Giessen & Markus Lippitz);Nonlinear Saddle Point Spectroscopy and Electron-Phonon Interaction in Graphene (Rolf Binder, Adam T Roberts, Nai-Hang Kwong, Arvinder Sandhu & Henry O Everitt);Femtosecond Pulse Generation with Voltage-Controlled Graphene Saturable Absorbers (Işinsu Baylam, Sarper Özharar, Nurbek Kakenov, Coşkun Kocabaş & Alphan Sennaroǧlu);Graphene-Based Optical Modulators (Sinan Balci & Coskun Kocabas);The Potential of Graphene as a Transparent Electrode (Wee Shing KOH, Wee Kee PHUA & Wei Peng GOH);
Readership: Advanced undergraduate, professionals and researchers in materials science.Graphene, Two-Dimensional Materials, Optics, SemimetalsThere is no other book with a focus on the optical properties of graphene, in spite of the large interest by researchers worldwide graphene and other two-dimensional materials and possible future device applications