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Novel systems of layered graphene are attracting interest for theories and applications. The stability, band structures of few-layer graphite films, and their dependence on electric field applied along the c-axis are examined within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Masato Aoki , Hiroshi Amawashi

An atomic force microscope is used to structure a film of multilayer graphene. The resistance of the sample was measured in-situ during nanomachining a narrow trench. We found a reversible behavior in the electrical resistance which we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-28 P. Barthold , T. Luedtke , R. J. Haug

The absence of an energy gap separating valence and conduction bands makes the low-energy electronic properties of graphene and its multi-layers sensitive to electron-electron interactions. In bilayers, for instance, interactions are…

A major practical barrier for implementing carbon-based electrode arrays with high device-packing density is to ensure large, predictable, and homogeneous sensitivities across the array. Overcoming this barrier depends on quantitative…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 Ting Wu , Abdullah Alharbi , Roozbeh Kiani , Davood Shahrjerdi

In the case of the strongly deformed graphene, gapless graphene may turn to gapped graphene at the critical deformation. We find that, like semi-massless fermions, electrons in the deformed graphene, at the critical point, mimic the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Bumned Soodchomshom

Due to atomically thin structure, graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (G/hBN) heterostructures are intensively sensitive to the external mechanical forces and deformations being applied to their lattice structure. In particular, strain can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-03 Zahra Khatibi , Afshin Namiranian , S. F. K. S. Panahi

We demonstrate using graphene sheets as a novel mass standard in the scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) based mass spectrometry. Here, free-standing graphene sheets are investigated by STEM. The discrete number of graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-11 Fengqi Song , Ziyou Li , Zhiwei Wang , Longbing He , Min Han , Guanghou Wang

By using four layered graphene/gallium nitride (GaN) Schottky diodes with an undoped GaN spacer, we demonstrate highly effective gating of graphene at low bias rendering this type of structure very promising for potential applications. An…

The ability of graphene to support long-lived, electrically tunable plasmons that interact strongly with light, combined with its highly nonlinear optical response, has generated great expectations for application of the atomically-thin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Joel D. Cox , Iván Silveiro , F. Javier García de Abajo

Raman spectroscopic studies of graphene have attracted much interest. The G-band Raman intensity of a single layer graphene on Si substrate with 300 nm SiO2 capping layer is surprisingly strong and is comparable to that of bulk graphite. To…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Yingying Wang , Zhenhua Ni , Zexiang Shen , Haomin Wang , Yihong Wu

We numerically investigate the electronic transport properties between two mesoscopic graphene disks with a twist by employing the density functional theory coupled with non-equilibrium Green's function technique. By attaching two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yulei Han , Yafei Ren , Xinlong Dong , Junjie Zeng , Wei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao

Influence of the chiral symmetry on the many-body problem in multilayer graphene in magnetic fields is investigated. For a spinless electron model on the honeycomb lattice the many-body ground state is shown to be a doubly-degenerate chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yuji Hamamoto , Tohru Kawarabayashi , Hideo Aoki , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Terrace-sized, single-orientation graphene can be grown on top of a carbon buffer layer on silicon carbide by thermal decomposition. Despite its homogeneous appearance, a surprisingly large variation in electron transport properties is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Tobias A. de Jong , Luuk Visser , Johannes Jobst , Ruud M. Tromp , Sense Jan van der Molen

We use a multiscale procedure to derive a simple continuum model of multiwalled carbon nanotubes that takes into account both strong covalent bonds within graphene layers and weak bonds between atoms in different layers. The model predicts…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-06-09 Dmitry Golovaty , Shannon Talbott

{\gamma}-graphdiyne is a 2D carbon structure beyond graphene: it is formed by sp and sp2 carbon atoms organized as hexagonal rings connected by linear links, and it is predicted to be a semiconductor. The lateral confinement of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Patrick Serafini , Alberto Milani , Matteo Tommasini , Chiara Castiglioni , Carlo S. Casari

Tetralayer graphene has recently become a new addition to the family of few-layer graphene with versatile electronic properties. This material can be realised in three distinctive stacking configurations, for which we determine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Andrew McEllistrim , Aitor Garcia-Ruiz , Zachary A. H. Goodwin , Vladimir I. Fal`ko

Horizontal shifts in the top layer of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite, induced by a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tip, are presented. Excellent agreement is found between STM images and those simulated using density functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-05 P. Xu , Y. Yang , D. Qi , S. D. Barber , M. L. Ackerman , J. K. Schoelz , T. B. Bothwell , S. Barraza-Lopez , L. Bellaiche , P. M. Thibado

We perform a MonteCarlo simulation in order to study the connection between the morphology and the transport properties of grain boundaries (GBs) in graphene. We explore the configurational space of GBs to generate ensembles of realistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 Fernando Gargiulo

We induced periodic biaxial tensile strain in polycrystalline graphene by wrapping it over a substrate with repeating pillar-like structures with a periodicity of 600 nm. Using Raman spectroscopy, we determined to have introduced biaxial…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-09 Marjan Aslani , C. Michael Garner , Suhas Kumar , Dennis Nordlund , Piero Pianetta , Yoshio Nishi

This article proposes a novel analytical model for the anisotropic multi-layer structures containing magnetically biased graphene sheets. The multi-layer structure is composed of various magnetic materials. An external magnetic field is…