Towards high performance hybrid two-dimensional material plasmonic devices: strong and highly anisotropic plasmonic resonances in nanostructured graphene-black phosphorus bilayer

Plasmonics of two-dimensional materials have attracted increasing attention in the past few years. It provides a platform for strong light-matter interactions and enables a variety of novel applications in the infrared and terahertz ranges. In this paper, we study the plasmonic properties of a graphene-black phosphorus (G-BP) bilayer. It exhibits both strong and highly anisotropic plasmonic responses that performs beyond individual graphene and black phosphorus films. Polarization dependent, anisotropic perfect absorption can be realized in this type of two-dimensional plasmonic nanostructures with moderate doping levels. This type of hybrid architecture opens a new door for high performance two-dimensional material plasmonic devices. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement