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We study the energy gap opening in the electronic spectrum of graphene bilayers caused by asym- metric doping. Both substitutional impurities (boron acceptors and nitrogen donors) and adsorbed potassium donors are considered. The gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 Marcos G. Menezes , Rodrigo B. Capaz , Jorge L. B. Faria

We investigate the transport properties of double-gated bilayer graphene nanoribbons at room temperature. The devices were fabricated using conventional CMOS-compatible processes. By analyzing the dependence of the resistance at the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Bartholomaeus N. Szafranek , Daniel Schall , Martin Otto , Daniel Neumaier , Heinrich Kurz

We show by systemically experimental investigation that gas-flow-induced voltage in monolayer graphene is more than twenty times of that in bulk graphite. Examination over samples with sheet resistances ranging from 307 to 1600 {\Omega}/sq…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Jun Yin , Jianxin Zhou , Xuemei Li , Yaqing Chen , Guoan Tai , Wanlin Guo

For graphene to be utilized in the digital electronics industry the challenge is to create bandgaps of order 1eV as simply as possible. The most successful methods for the creation of gaps in graphene are (a) confining the electrons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-13 A. R. Davenport , J. P. Hague

Using the tight-binding model, we report a gap opening in the energy spectrum of the twisted bilayer graphene under the application of pressure, that can be further amplified by the presence of a perpendicular bias voltage. The valley edges…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 V. G. M. Duarte , D. R. da Costa , N. M. R. Peres , L. K. Teles , A. J. Chaves

We study the optical conductivity in the low-energy regime of gapped mono- and bilayer graphene. A scaling relation is found, in which the four parameters frequency, gap, Fermi energy and temperature appear only as combination of three…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-20 K. Ziegler , A. Sinner

Bilayer graphene is normally a semimetal with parabolic dispersion, but a tunable bandgap up to few hundreds meV can be opened by breaking the symmetry between the layers through an external potential. Ab-initio calculations show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Simone De Liberato

By taking into account the full four band energy spectrum, we calculate the transmission probability and conductance of electrons across symmetric and asymmetric double potential barrier with a confined interlayer potential difference in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-22 Hasan A. Alshehab , Hocine Bahlouli , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

A striking feature of bilayer graphene is the induction of a significant band gap in the electronic states by the application of a perpendicular electric field. Thicker graphene layers are also highly attractive materials. The ability to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 Chun Hung Lui , Zhiqiang Li , Kin Fai Mak , Emmanuele Cappelluti , Tony F. Heinz

We study the electronic transmission through a graphene bilayer in the presence of an applied bias between layers. We consider different geometries involving interfaces between both a monolayer and a bilayer and between two bilayers. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Johan Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres

We investigate bilayer graphene transport in the presence of electron-hole puddles induced by long-range charged impurities in the environment. We explain the insulating behavior observed in the temperature dependent conductivity of low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-24 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Thermoelectric power of a material, typically governed by its band structure and carrier density, can be varied by chemical doping that is often restricted by solubility of the dopant. Materials showing large thermoelectric power are useful…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Chang-Ran Wang , Wen-Sen Lu , Lei Hao , Wei-Li Lee , Ting-Kuo Lee , Feng Lin , I-Chun Cheng , Jian-Zhang Chen

New interlayer intermolecular potential model was proposed and it represented ``ABAB'' staking of graphite. Hydrogen atom sputtering on graphite surface was investigated using molecular dynamics simulation. In the initial short time period,…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-11-26 Atsushi Ito , Hiroaki Nakamura

We calculate the thermopower of monolayer graphene in various circumstances. First we show that experiments on the thermopower of graphene can be understood quantitatively with a very simple model of screening in the semiclassical limit. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-14 Aavishkar A. Patel , Subroto Mukerjee

Detection of infrared light is central to diverse applications in security, medicine, astronomy, materials science, and biology. Often different materials and detection mechanisms are employed to optimize performance in different spectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 J. Yan , M. -H. Kim , J. A. Elle , A. B. Sushkov , G. S. Jenkins , H. M. Milchberg , M. S. Fuhrer , H. D. Drew

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the spectrum of graphene plasmons which arise when a pair of sheets are confined between conducting materials. The associated enhanced local fields may be employed in the manipulation of light on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 Godfrey Gumbs , Dipendra Dahal , Antonios Balassis

Density functional calculations are employed to study the molecular dissociation of hydrogen on graphene, the diffusion of chemisorbed atomic species, and the electronic properties of the resulting hydrogen on graphene system. Our results…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-06-03 Hayley McKay , David J. Wales , S. J. Jenkins , J. A. Verges , P. L. de Andres

Atomically thin materials offer multiple opportunities for layer-by-layer control of their electronic properties. While monolayer graphene (MLG) is a zero-gap system, Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) acquires a finite band gap when the…

Bilayer graphene has drawn significant attention due to the opening of a band gap in its low energy electronic spectrum, which offers a promising route to electronic applications. The gap can be either tunable through an external electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Gregory M. Rutter , Suyong Jung , Nikolai N. Klimov , David B. Newell , Nikolai B. Zhitenev , Joseph A. Stroscio

Generating photogalvanic effects in centrosymmetric materials can provide new opportunities for developing passive photodetectors and energy harvesting devices. In this work, we investigate the photogalvanic effects in centrosymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Ze Zheng , Kainan Chang , Jin Luo Cheng