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The unusual electronic and optical properties of armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) subject to in-plane transverse electric and perpendicular magnetic fields have been systematically investigated. Our calculations were carried…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-29 Thi-Nga Do , Po-Hsin Shih , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

This paper presents electronic spectra of zigzag and armchair graphene nanoribbons calculated within the tight-binding model for pi-electrons. Zigzag and armchair nanoribbons of different edge geometries are considered, with surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-06 Jaroslaw Klos

In our previous paper (Phys. Rev. B {\bf 89}, 165430 (2014)) we have found that in graphene, in distinction to the four occupied bands, which can be described by the simple tight-binding model (TBM) with four atomic orbitals per atom, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 E. Kogan , V. M. Silkin

We investigate the behaviour of the $\pi$-electrons under compression and the effect of the stacking order of graphene layers. First we find that electrons can hardly be squeezed through the $sp^2$ network, regardless of the stacking order.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-25 Yiwei Sun , David Holec , Dominik Nöger , David Dunstan , Colin Humphreys

We report an exact map into one dimensional effective chains, of the tight-binding Hamiltonian for electrons in armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons with any uniaxial ripple. This mapping is used for studying the effect of uniaxial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Pedro Roman-Taboada , Gerardo G. Naumis

The tight-binding model of electrons in graphene is reviewed. We derive low-energy Hamiltonians supporting massless Dirac-like chiral fermions and massive chiral fermions in monolayer and bilayer graphene, respectively, and we describe how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Edward McCann

The full three dimensional dispersion of the pi-bands, Fermi velocities and effective masses are measured with angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy and compared to first-principles calculations. The band structure by density-functional…

The electron band structure of graphene on SrTiO3 substrate has been investigated as a function of temperature. The high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission study reveals that the spectral width at Fermi energy and the Fermi velocity of…

Electrons in the mono-layer atomic sheet of graphene have a long coherence length of the order of micrometers. We will show that this coherence is transmitted into the vacuum via electric field assisted electron emission from the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-05 Zhibing Li , Ningsheng Xu , H. J. Kreuzer

Epitaxial graphene on SiC possesses, quite remarkably, an electron spectrum similar to that of freestanding samples. Yet, the coupling to the substrate, albeit small, affects the quasiparticle properties. Combining \emph{ab initio}…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Oleg Pankratov , Stephan Hensel , Michel Bockstedte

We revisit the model of graphene as a $\pi$-conjugated macromolecule \cite{PRL} and show that it allows to understand the origin and describe, in many cases explicitly, the electronic structure of graphene sheets, achiral graphene ribbons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-06 Alexander Onipko , Lyuba Malysheva

We locate gaps in the spectrum of a Hamiltonian on a periodic cuboidal (and generally hyperrectangular) lattice graph with $\delta$ couplings in the vertices. We formulate sufficient conditions under which the number of gaps is finite. As…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 Ondřej Turek

An extraordinary low vacuum barrier height of 2.30 eV has been found on the zigzag-edge of graphene terminated with the secondary amine via the ab initio calculation. This edge structure has a flat band of edge states attached to the gamma…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-09-05 Weiliang Wang , Zhibing Li

The electronic structure and structural evolution of hydrogenated graphene are investigated by Raman spectroscopy with multiple excitations. The excitation energy dependent saturation effect on the ratio of integrated intensities of D and G…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-12-06 Zhiqiang Luo , Ting Yu , Zhenhua Ni , Sanhua Lim , Jingzhi Shang , Hailong Hu , Lei Liu , Zexiang Shen , Jianyi Lin

Graphene has shown great application potentials as the host material for next generation electronic devices. However, despite its intriguing properties, one of the biggest hurdles for graphene to be useful as an electronic material is its…

We study the electronic states of narrow graphene ribbons (``nanoribbons'') with zigzag and armchair edges. The finite width of these systems breaks the spectrum into an infinite set of bands, which we demonstrate can be quantitatively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

In this paper, a continuum mechanics model of graphene is proposed, and its analytical solution is derived. Graphene is modeled as a doubly-periodic thin elastic plate with a hexagonal cell having a circular hole at the hexagon center.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Yuri A. Antipov

We review the electronic properties of bilayer graphene, beginning with a description of the tight-binding model of bilayer graphene and the derivation of the effective Hamiltonian describing massive chiral quasiparticles in two parabolic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 Edward McCann , Mikito Koshino

We find the exact solution of graphene s carriers under electromagnetic radiation. To obtain such solution, we combine Floquet theory with a trial solution. Then the energy spectrum is obtained without using any approximation. Using such…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-05 Gerardo G. Naumis , Francisco J. Lopez-Rodriguez

We analyze the scattering sector of the Hamiltonians for both gapless and gapped graphene in the presence of a charge impurity using the 2D Dirac equation, which is applicable in the long wavelength limit. We show that for certain range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 Kumar S. Gupta , Andjelo Samsarov , Siddhartha Sen