title: Terahertz photonic states in semiconductor-graphene cylinder structures.
abstract: We propose a semiconductor-graphene cylinder that can serve as a terahertz (THz) photonic crystal. In such a structure, graphene plays a role in achieving a strong mismatch of the dielectric constant at the semiconductor-graphene interface due to its two-dimensional nature and relatively low value of the dielectric constant. We find that when the radius of the outer semiconductor layer is about ρ(1)~100 μm, the frequencies of the photonic modes are within the THz bandwidth and they can be efficiently tuned via varying ρ(1). Furthermore, the dispersion relation of the photonic modes shows that a semiconductor-graphene cylinder is of excellent light transport properties, which can be utilized for the THz waveguide. This study is pertinent to the application of graphene as THz photonic devices.
authors.affiliation: College of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University and Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronics Information Technology (Tianjin University), Ministry of Education, Tianjin 300072, China.
authors.forename: Yizhe
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: Jianquan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Xu