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We present a comparative study of high carrier density transport in mono-, bi-, and trilayer graphene using electric-double-layer transistors to continuously tune the carrier density up to values exceeding 10^{14} cm^{-2}. Whereas in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 J. T. Ye , M. F. Craciun , M. Koshino , S. Russo , S. Inoue , H. T. Yuan , H. Shimotani , A. F. Morpurgo , Y. Iwasa

The adsorption of an alkali-metal submonolayer on graphene occupying every third hexagon of the honeycomb lattice in a commensurate $(\sqrt{3}\times\sqrt{3})R30^\circ$ arrangement induces an energy gap in the spectrum of graphene. To…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-27 M. Farjam , H. Rafii-Tabar

The Raman shift, broadening, and relative Raman intensities of bilayer graphene are computed as functions of the electron concentration. We include dynamic effects for the phonon frequencies and we consider the gap induced in the band…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-11 Paola Gava , Michele Lazzeri , A. Marco Saitta , Francesco Mauri

The instanton approach to the in-gap fluctuation states is applied to the spectrum of biased bilayer graphene. It is shown that the density of states falls off with energy measured from the band-edge as $\nu(\epsilon)\propto…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. V. Mkhitaryan , M. E. Raikh

Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong correlations. Remarkably, an isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer graphene by simply rotating the layers to 1.1$^{\circ}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Matthew Yankowitz , Shaowen Chen , Hryhoriy Polshyn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , David Graf , Andrea F. Young , Cory R. Dean

Magic angle twisted bilayer graphene has emerged as a powerful platform for studying strongly correlated electron physics, owing to its almost dispersionless low-energy bands and the ability to tune the band filling by electrostatic gating.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Nikhil Tilak , Xinyuan Lai , Shuang Wu , Zhenyuan Zhang , Mingyu Xu , Raquel de Almeida Ribeiro , Paul C Canfield , Eva Y. Andrei

For graphene to be used in semiconductor applications, a wide energy gap of at least 0.5 eV at the Dirac energy must be opened without the introduction of atomic defects. However, such a wide energy gap has not been realized in graphene,…

The electronic structure of bilayer graphene is investigated from a resonant Raman study using different laser excitation energies. The values of the parameters of the Slonczewski-Weiss-McClure model for graphite are measured experimentally…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 L. M. Malard , J. Nilsson , D. C. Elias , J. C. Brant , F. Plentz , E. S. Alves , A. H. Castro Neto , M. A. Pimenta

The relativistic-like behavior of electrons in graphene significantly influences the interaction properties of these electrons in a quantizing magnetic field, resulting in more stable fractional quantum Hall effect states as compared to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Tapash Chakraborty , Vadim Apalkov

Electron interactions in undoped bilayer graphene lead to instability of the gapless state, `which-layer' symmetry breaking, and energy gap opening at the Dirac point. In contrast to single layer graphene, the bilayer system exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-16 Rahul Nandkishore , Leonid Levitov

$\alpha$-graphyne is a two-dimensional sheet of $sp$-$sp^2$ hybridized carbon atoms in a honeycomb lattice. While the geometrical structure is similar to that of graphene, the hybridized triple bonds give rise to electronic structure that…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-04 Hyeondeok Shin , Jeongnim Kim , Hoonkyung Lee , Olle Heinonen , Anouar Benali , Yongkyung Kwon

We report room temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy study of bilayer graphene prepared by mechanical exfoliation on SiO$_2$/Si surface and electrically contacted with gold pads using a mechanical mask. The bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Shyam K. Choudhary , Anjan K. Gupta

Here, we present a mechanism for tailoring the photonic band structure of a quarter-wave stack without changing its physical periods by embedding conductive sheets. Graphene is utilized and studied as a realistic, two-dimensional conductive…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-31 Yuancheng Fan , Zeyong Wei , Hongqiang Li , Hong Chen , Costas M. Soukoulis

We present transport measurements on a bilayer graphene sheet with homogeneous back gate and split top gate. The electronic transport data indicates the capability to direct electron flow through graphene nanostructures purely defined by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 S. Dröscher , C. Barraud , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

Controlling the electronic structure of two-dimensional materials using the combination of twist angle and electrostatic doping is an effective means to induce emergent phenomena. In bilayer graphene with an interlayer twist angle near the…

Chemical functionalization is a promising route to band gap engineering of graphene. We chemically grafted nitrophenyl groups onto exfoliated single-layer graphene sheets in the form of substrate-supported or free-standing films. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Hang Zhang , Elena Bekyarova , Jhao-Wun Huang , Zeng Zhao , Wenzhong Bao , Fenglin Wang , Robert C. Haddon , Chun Ning Lau

Unlike in conventional semiconductors, both the chemical potential and the band gap in bilayer graphene (BLG) can be tuned via application of external electric field. Among numerous device implications, this property also designates BLG as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Dominik Suszalski , Grzegorz Rut , Adam Rycerz

Bilayer graphene is a nanomaterial that allows for well-defined, separated quantum states to be defined by electrostatic gating and, therefore, provides an attractive platform to construct tunable quantum dots. When a magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Jozef Bucko , Frank Schäfer , František Herman , Rebekka Garreis , Chuyao Tong , Annika Kurzmann , Thomas Ihn , Eliska Greplova

We study the conductance of a biased bilayer graphene flake with monolayer nanoribbon contacts. We find that the transmission through the bilayer ribbon strongly depends on the applied bias between the two layers and on the relative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-18 J. W. González , H. Santos , E. Prada , L. Brey , L. Chico

The effect of a randomly fluctuating gap, created by a random staggered potential, is studied in a monolayer and a bilayer of graphene. The density of states, the one-particle scattering rate and transport properties (diffusion coefficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-24 K. Ziegler