Unleashing the Quadratic Non-Linear Optical Responses of Graphene by Confining White Graphene Sections in Its Framework
1 : Institut Pluridisciplinaire de Recherche sur l'Environnement et les Matériaux
(IPREM)
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* : Auteur correspondant
CNRS : UMR5254, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour [UPPA]
Hélioparc Pau Pyrénées 2 av. P. Angot 64053 PAU CEDEX 9 -
France
A proof-of-concept about a novel way of designing two dimensional based systems of exceptionally large first order non-linear optical (NLO) activity is presented. The proposed route has been inspired by the recent advances in synthesis of a novel type of graphene hybrid in which finite sections of “white graphene” (c.c hexagonal boron nitride, h-BN) are confined in larger sections of pure graphene. The so called graphene/h-BN hybrids have been grown already as a part of numerous attempts in opening the zero band gab of graphene at the Fermi level by creating asymmetric electron and hole conduction with simultaneous negative-type (with Nitrogen) and positive-type (with Boron) chemical doping.