Plasmonic and Ultrafast Optical Response of 2D and 3D Dirac Materials

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dc.contributor.advisorMurphy, Thomas E.en_US
dc.contributor.authorJadidi, Mohammad Mehdien_US
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-25T06:37:50Z
dc.date.available2017-01-25T06:37:50Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractThe fast-evolving field of condensed matter physics is witnessing a rapid development of a new class of materials, called Dirac materials. The low-energy electronic excitation in these materials behaves like massless Dirac particles. These materials exhibit unique optoelectronic properties, and understanding of Dirac quasi-particle dynamics in two and three dimensions is imperative to realizing the potential applications. In this dissertation, we study two prominent Dirac materials that have unique optoelectronic properties: graphene (two-dimensional) and tantalum arsenide (three-dimensional). While the former can be regarded as the father of materials with a symmetry-protected Dirac spectrum, the latter is a more recent example of topology-protected Dirac materials, also known as 3D Weyl semimetals. We employ spectroscopy and ultrafast optical techniques to study plasmons, and the interaction/relaxation dynamics of photo-excited carriers in these materials. More specifically, we study a new class of plasmon resonances in hybrid metal-graphene structures, which is an important step towards practical graphene plasmonic optoelectronic devices. In addition, we investigate the giant nonlinear THz response of graphene plasmons using pump-probe techniques and discuss the physical origin of the plasmon-enhanced nonlinearity. Furthermore, we introduce a novel continuous-wave photomixing spectroscopy technique to investigate the frequency dependence and nonlinearity of hot-electron cooling in graphene. Finally, we explore the relaxation dynamics of photo-excited Weyl fermions in tantalum arsenide via ultrafast optical pump-probe techniques, which shed light on the electron-phonon relaxation processes in this material.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2NR85
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/19078
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPhysicsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDirac Materialsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGrapheneen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPlasmonicsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpump-probeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUltrafast Opticsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledWeyl Semimetalsen_US
dc.titlePlasmonic and Ultrafast Optical Response of 2D and 3D Dirac Materialsen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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