Plasmonic properties of folded graphene nanodisks

Abstract

Abstract Graphene and its relatives, such as bilayer and trilayer graphene, are promising plasmonic materials. Very recently, graphene has been demonstrated to be precisely folded (Chen et al 2019 Science 365 1036–40), thus folded graphene provides another appealing platform for plasmonics. In folded graphene nanodisks, we find fundamental dipole modes (DMs) will exhibit mode splitting, with one parallel and another perpendicular to the folding axis. The two DMs show differences in field patterns and folding angle dependence, but they both can be tuned by the size of structures and the Fermi level of graphene. Some interesting high order modes are introduced as well, which can be further engineered by folding. Our studies enrich the current research of graphene plasmonics, and pave the way for particular plasmonic device applications.