@article{
author = "Politano, Antonio and Radović, Ivan and Borka, Duško and Mišković, Zoran L. and Yu, H. K. and Farias, D. and Chiarello, G.",
year = "2017",
abstract = "By means of angle-resolved electron energy loss spectroscopy, we have measured the interband it plasmon in high-quality graphene grown on peeled-off epitaxial Cu(111) foils. Experimental loss spectra have been reproduced by means of a hydrodynamic model. The dispersion relation of the plasmon frequency shows a nearly-flat dispersion up to a critical wave-vector of 0.3 angstrom(-1). We propose that the observed behavior could be originated by confinement effects in ripples in the strained graphene sheet. Strain also limits the dispersion at higher momenta, as a consequence of the increased effective mass of charge carriers. The analysis of momentum dependence of the line-width and of the inverse quality factor indicates that damping processes are dominated by decay in electron-hole pairs via indirect interband transitions. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.",
journal = "Carbon",
title = "Dispersion and damping of the interband pi plasmon in graphene grown on Cu(111) foils",
volume = "114",
pages = "70-76",
doi = "10.1016/j.carbon.2016.11.073"
}