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We have studied numerically the mesoscopic fluctuations of the conductance of a graphene strip (width W large compared to length L), in an ensemble of samples with different realizations of the random electrostatic potential landscape. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 A. Rycerz , J. Tworzydlo , C. W. J. Beenakker

We calculate the dynamical conductivity of AA-stacked bilayer graphene as a function of frequency and in the presence of a finite chemical potential due to charging. Unlike the monolayer, we find a Drude absorption at charge neutrality in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-01 Calvin J. Tabert , Elisabeth J. Nicol

A thermal transport mechanism leading to the enhanced thermal conductivity of Graphene nanofluids has been proposed. The Graphene sheet size is postulated to be the key to the underlying mechanism. Based on a critical sheet size derived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-02 Purbarun Dhar , Arvind Pattamatta , Sarit K. Das

The authors proposed a simple model for the lattice thermal conductivity of graphene in the framework of Klemens approximation. The Gruneisen parameters were introduced separately for the longitudinal and transverse phonon branches through…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 D. L. Nika , S. Ghosh , E. P. Pokatilov , A. A. Balandin

Graphene, as a semimetal with the largest known thermal conductivity, is an ideal system to study the interplay between electronic and lattice contributions to thermal transport. While the total electrical and thermal conductivity have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-12 Tae Yun Kim , Cheol-Hwan Park , Nicola Marzari

We derive and analyze the f-sum rule for a two-dimensional (2D) system of interacting electrons whose behavior is described by the Dirac equation. We apply the sum rule to analyze the spectral weight transfer in graphene within different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Sabio , J. Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto

Graphene and other two-dimensional materials display remarkable optical properties, including a simple light transparency of $T \approx 1 - \pi \alpha$ for light in the visible region. Most theoretical rationalizations of this "universal"…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Daniel J. Merthe , Vitaly V. Kresin

Within the tight binding approximation, we study the dependence of the electronic band structure and of the optical conductivity of a graphene single layer on the modulus and direction of applied uniaxial strain. While the Dirac cone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-15 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

The electronic and transport properties of aluminum-graphene composite materials were investigated using ab initio plane wave density functional theory. The interfacial structure is reported for several configurations. In some cases, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-12 K. Nepal , C. Ugwumadu , K. N. Subedi , K. Kappagantula , D. A. Drabold

The electronic transmission and conductance of a gapped graphene superlattice were calculated by means of the transfer-matrix method. The system that we study consists of a sequence of electron-doped graphene as wells and hole-doped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Esmailpour , A. Esmailpour , Reza Asgari , E. Elahi , M. R. Rahimi Tabar

We have examined the interfacial thermal conductance {\sigma}int of single and multi-layer graphene samples prepared on fused SiO2 substrates by mechanical exfoliation of graphite. By using an ultrafast optical pump pulse and monitoring the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-02 Kin Fai Mak , Chun Hung Lui , Tony F. Heinz

The optical conductivity of graphene strained uniaxially is studied within the Kubo-Greenwood formalism. Focusing on inter-band absorption, we analyze and quantify the breakdown of universal transparency in the visible region of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-17 Vitor M. Pereira , R. M. Ribeiro , N. M. R. Peres , A. H. Castro Neto

In this paper, we study a theoretical method to calculate the conductance across a square barrier potential in monolayer graphene. We have obtained an analytical expression for the transmission coefficient across a potential barrier for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-26 C. H. Fuentevilla , J. D. Lejarreta , C. Cobaleda , E. Diez

We present a numerical study on the intraband optical conductivity of hot carriers at quasi-equilibria in photoexcited graphene based on the semiclassical Boltzmann transport equations (BTE) with the aim of understanding the effects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Masatsugu Yamashita , Chiko Otani

Electrons moving in graphene behave as massless Dirac fermions, and they exhibit fascinating low-frequency electrical transport phenomena. Their dynamic response, however, is little known at frequencies above one terahertz (THz). Such…

We study the low-energy electronic structure of heterostructures formed by one sheet of graphene placed on a monolayer of ${\rm NbSe_2}$. We build a continuous low-energy effective model that takes into account the presence of a twist angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-06 Yohanes S. Gani , Hadar Steinberg , Enrico Rossi

We study the conductivity of a graphene strip taking into account electrostatically-induced charge accumulation on its edges. Using a local dependency of the conductivity on the carrier concentration we find that the electrostatic size…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-09 F. T. Vasko , I. V. Zozoulenko

The intrinsic channel properties of monolayer and multilayer graphene were systematically investigated as a function of layer number by the exclusion of contact resistance using four-probe measurements. We show that the continuous change in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Kosuke Nagashio , Tomonori Nishimura , Koji Kita , Akira Toriumi

The electronic thermal conductivity of graphene and 2D Dirac materials is of fundamental interest and can play an important role in the performance of nano-scale devices. We report the electronic thermal conductivity, $K_{e}$, in suspended…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 S. Yiğen , V. Tayari , J. O. Island , J. M. Porter , A. R. Champagne

We study conductance fluctuations (CF) and the sensitivity of the conductance to the motion of a single scatterer in two-dimensional massless Dirac systems. Our extensive numerical study finds limits to the predicted universal value of CF.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-29 Mario F. Borunda , Jesse Berezovsky , Robert M. Westervelt , Eric J. Heller