Terahertz spectroscopy is a perfect tool to investigate the electronic intraband conductivity of graphene, but a phenom-enological model (Drude-Smith) is often needed to describe disorder. By studying the THz response of isotropically strained polycrystalline graphene and using a fully atomistic computational approach to fit the results, we demonstrate here the connection between the Drude-Smith parameters and the microscopic behavior. Importantly, we clearly show that the strain-induced changes in the conductivity originate mainly from the increased separation between the single-crystal grains, leading to enchanced localization of the plasmon excitations. Only at the lowest strain values explored, a behavior consistent with the deformation of the individual grains can instead be observed.
Strain-Induced Plasmon Confinement in Polycrystalline Graphene
Bonatti, Luca;Giovannini, Tommaso;Cappelli, Chiara;
2023
Abstract
Terahertz spectroscopy is a perfect tool to investigate the electronic intraband conductivity of graphene, but a phenom-enological model (Drude-Smith) is often needed to describe disorder. By studying the THz response of isotropically strained polycrystalline graphene and using a fully atomistic computational approach to fit the results, we demonstrate here the connection between the Drude-Smith parameters and the microscopic behavior. Importantly, we clearly show that the strain-induced changes in the conductivity originate mainly from the increased separation between the single-crystal grains, leading to enchanced localization of the plasmon excitations. Only at the lowest strain values explored, a behavior consistent with the deformation of the individual grains can instead be observed.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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