Observation of Dirac plasmons in a topological insulator (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Observation of Dirac plasmons in a topological insulator (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2013-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1038/nnano.2013.134 (literal)
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  • Di Pietro, P.ab, Ortolani, M.bc, Limaj, O.bd, Di Gaspare, A.c, Giliberti, V.bc, Giorgianni, F.bd, Brahlek, M.e, Bansal, N.e, Koirala, N.e, Oh, S.e, Calvani, P.ab, Lupi, S.bdf (2013)
    Observation of Dirac plasmons in a topological insulator
    in Nature nanotechnology (Online)
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  • Di Pietro, P.ab, Ortolani, M.bc, Limaj, O.bd, Di Gaspare, A.c, Giliberti, V.bc, Giorgianni, F.bd, Brahlek, M.e, Bansal, N.e, Koirala, N.e, Oh, S.e, Calvani, P.ab, Lupi, S.bdf (literal)
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  • a CNR-SPIN, Corso F. Perrone, 16152 Genoa, Italy b Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma la Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy c CNR-IFN, Via Cineto Romano, 42 00156 Rome, Italy d INFN, Piazza dei Caprettari 70, 00186 Rome, Italy e Department of Physics and Astronomy Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, 136 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019, United States f CNR-IOM, Area Science Park, I-34149 Trieste, Italy (literal)
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  • Observation of Dirac plasmons in a topological insulator (literal)
Abstract
  • Plasmons are quantized collective oscillations of electrons and have been observed in metals and doped semiconductors. The plasmons of ordinary, massive electrons have been the basic ingredients of research in plasmonics and in optical metamaterials for a long time. However, plasmons of massless Dirac electrons have only recently been observed in graphene, a purely two-dimensional electron system. Their properties are promising for novel tunable plasmonic metamaterials in the terahertz and mid-infrared frequency range. Dirac fermions also occur in the two-dimensional electron gas that forms at the surface of topological insulators as a result of the strong spin-orbit interaction existing in the insulating bulk phase. One may therefore look for their collective excitations using infrared spectroscopy. Here we report the first experimental evidence of plasmonic excitations in a topological insulator (Bi 2 Se 3). The material was prepared in thin micro-ribbon arrays of different widths W and periods 2W to select suitable values of the plasmon wavevector k. The linewidth of the plasmon was found to remain nearly constant at temperatures between 6 K and 300 K, as expected when exciting topological carriers. Moreover, by changing W and measuring the plasmon frequency in the terahertz range versus k we show, without using any fitting parameter, that the dispersion curve agrees quantitatively with that predicted for Dirac plasmons. © 2013 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. (literal)
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