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We show that periodically folded graphene sheets with enhanced spin-orbit interaction due to curvature effects can carry spin polarized currents and have gaps in the electronic spectrum in the presence of weak magnetic fields. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. T. Costa , M. S. Ferreira , Toby Hallam , Georg S. Duesberg , A. H. Castro Neto

The present Letter proposes a device based on graphene for infrared light emission. It is based on a n- and p-doped monolayer graphene (MGs), with Fermi energies $E_F$ and -$E_F$, respectively, sandwiching a bilayer graphene (BG) with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-19 Z. Z. Alisultanov , M. S. Reis

We have studied the electronic excitation spectrum in periodically rippled graphene on Ru(0001) and flat, commensurate graphene on Ni(111) by means of high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy and a combination of density functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-20 Antonio Politano , Guus J. Slotman , Rafael Roldán , Gennaro Chiarello , Davide Campi , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Shengjun Yuan

Using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, thermal desorption spectroscopy, and scanning tunneling microscopy we show that upon keV Xe + irradiation of graphene on Ir(111), Xe atoms are trapped under the graphene. Upon annealing, aggregation…

Inspired by recent progress in fabricating precisely zigzag-edged graphene nanoribbons and the observation of edge magnetism, we find that spin polarized edge modes with well-defined valley index can exist in a bulk energy gap opened by a…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-16 Zhenhua Qiao , Yugui Yao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Bin Wang , Qian Niu

The step edges on the Si(553)-Au surface undergo a 1 x 3 reconstruction at low temperature which has recently been interpreted theoretically as the x3 ordering of spin-polarized silicon atoms at the edges of the graphitic Si nanowires on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-23 P. C. Snijders , P. S. Johnson , N. P. Guisinger , S. C. Erwin , F. J. Himpsel

Despite having outstanding electrical properties, graphene is unsuitable for optical devices because of its zero band gap. Here, we report two-dimensional excitonic photoluminescence (PL) from graphene grown on Cu(111) surface, which shows…

Using helium-3 atom scattering, we have studied the adsorption kinetics, the structure and the diffusional dynamics of atomic hydrogen on the surface of a graphene monolayer on Ni(111). Diffraction measurements reveal a 4$^\circ$ rotated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Emanuel Bahn , Anton Tamtögl , John Ellis , William Allison , Peter Fouquet

Electrons most often organize into Fermi-liquid states in which electron-electron interactions play an inessential role. A well known exception is the case of one-dimensional (1D) electron systems (1DES). In 1D the electron Fermi-surface…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-01-09 Fan Zhang , Hongki Min , Marco Polini , A. H. MacDonald

Spin orbit coupling changes graphene, in principle, into a two-dimensional topological insulator, also known as quantum spin Hall insulator. One of the expected consequences is the existence of spin-filtered edge states that carry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. Gosálbez-Martínez , D. Soriano , J. J. Palacios , J. Fernández-Rossier

Graphene hosts an ultra-clean electronic system with electron-electron collisions being the dominant source of scattering above liquid nitrogen temperatures. In this regime, the motion of the electron fluid resembles the flow of classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Mamoru Matsuo , Denis A. Bandurin , Yuichi Ohnuma , Yasumasa Tsutsumi , Sadamichi Maekawa

We show that the low-energy electronic structure of arbitrarily stacked graphene multilayers with nearest-neighbor interlayer tunneling consists of chiral pseudospin doublets. Although the number of doublets in an $N$-layer system depends…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-11 Hongki Min , A. H. MacDonald

The surface-enhanced Raman scattering in graphene deposited on AlxGa1-xN/GaN axial heterostructure nanowires was investigated. The intensity of graphene Raman spectra was found not to be correlated with aluminium content. Analysis of…

The electronic structure of graphene on Cu(111) and Cu(100) single crystals is investigated using low energy electron microscopy, low energy electron diffraction and angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy. On both substrates the graphene…

Matrix elements of electron-light interactions for armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons are constructed analytically using a tight-binding model. The changes in wavenumber ($\Delta n$) and pseudospin are the necessary elements if we are…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-09-05 K. Sasaki , K. Kato , Y. Tokura , K. Oguri , T. Sogawa

We study theoretically the effect of spin-orbit coupling and sublattice asymmetry in graphene on the spin polarization of photoelectrons. We show that sublattice asymmetry in graphene not only opens a gap in the band structure but in case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Peter Rakyta , Andor Kormanyos , Jozsef Cserti

We theoretically demonstrate the formation of a new type of unconventional superconductivity in graphene materials, which exhibits gapless property. The studied superconductivity is based on an interlayer pairing of chiral electrons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Mir Vahid Hosseini , Malek Zareyan

It is shown that one can explore the optical conductivity of graphene, together with the ability of controlling its electronic density by an applied gate voltage, in order to achieve resonant coupling between an external electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Yu. V. Bludov , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. M. R. Peres

Exploring the properties of strongly correlated systems through quantum simulation with photons, cold atoms or polaritons represents an active area of research. In fact, the latter permits to shed the light on the behavior of complex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Dmitry R. Gulevich , Dmitry Yudin

We study the electromagnetic properties of a metamaterial consisting of polarizable (nano)particles and a single graphene sheet placed at the interface between two dielectrics. We show that the particle's polarizability is renormalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Jaime E. Santos , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. M. R. Peres , G. Smirnov , Yu. V. Bludov