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Using a general symmetry-based approach, we provide a classification of generic miniband structures for electrons in graphene placed on substrates with the hexagonal Bravais symmetry. In particular, we identify conditions at which the first…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 J. R. Wallbank , A. A. Patel , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , A. K. Geim , V. I. Fal'ko

\textit{Ab initio} calculations within the density functional theory formalism are performed to investigate the stability and electronic properties of fluorinated bilayer graphene (bilayer fluorographene). A comparison is made to previously…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-25 Jozef Sivek , Ortwin Leenaerts , Bart Partoens , Francois Peeters

Superlattices (SLs) in monolayer and bilayer graphene, formed by spatially periodic potential variations, lead to a modified bandstructure with extra finite-energy and zero-energy Dirac fermions with tunable anisotropic velocities. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Si Wu , Matthew Killi , Arun Paramekanti

The evolution of electronic structure of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) as a function of the number of layers stacked together is investigated using \textit{ab initio} density functional theory (DFT) including interlayer van der Waals…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-28 Neerav Kharche , Yu Zhou , Kevin P. O'Brien , Swastik Kar , Saroj K. Nayak

Bilayer two-dimensional electron systems formed by a thin barrier in the GaAs buffer of a standard heterostructure were investigated by magnetotransport measurements. In magnetic fields oriented parallel to the electron layers, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. N. Makarovskii , L. Smrcka , P. Vasek , T. Jungwirth , M. Cukr , L. Jansen

We present quantum-mechanical density-matrix formalism for calculating the nonlinear optical response of magnetized graphene, valid for arbitrarily strong magnetic and optical fields. We show that magnetized graphene possesses by far the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Xianghan Yao , Alexey Belyanin

Staking layered materials revealed to be a very powerful method to tailor their electronic properties. It has indeed been theoretically and experimentally shown that twisted bilayers of graphene (tBLG) with a rotation angle $\theta$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Omid Faizy Namarvar , Ahmed Missaoui , Laurence Magaud , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

The electronic properties and optical excitations are investigated in the geometry- and field-modulated bilayer graphene systems, respectively, by using the tight-binding model and Kubo formula. The stacking symmetry of bilayer graphene can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-23 Chiun-Yan Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

The shortcomings of mono-component systems, e.g., the gapless nature of graphene, the lack of air-stability in phosphorene, etc. have drawn great attention toward stacked materials expected to show interesting electronic and optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 Maryam Mahdavifar , Sima Shekarforoush , Farhad Khoeini

Stability and electronic properties of atomic layers of GaN are investigated in the framework of the van der Waals-density functional theory. We find that the ground state of the layered GaN is a planar graphene-like configuration rather…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-22 Dongwei Xu , Haiying He , Ravindra Pandey , Shashi P. Karna

The electronic properties of graphene under any arbitrary uniaxial strain field are obtained by an exact mapping of the corresponding tight-binding Hamiltonian into an effective one-dimensional modulated chain. For a periodic modulation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Gerardo G. Naumis , Pedro Roman-Taboada

We study structural and electronic properties of graphene grown on SiC substrate using scanning tunneling microscope (STM), spot-profile-analysis low energy electron diffraction (SPA-LEED) and angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Lunan Huang , Yun Wu , M. T. Hershberger , Daixiang Mou , Ben Schrunk , Michael C. Tringides , Myron Hupalo , Adam Kaminski

According to electronic structure theory, bilayer graphene is expected to have anomalous electronic properties when it has long-period moir\'e patterns produced by small misalignments between its individual layer honeycomb lattices. We have…

Bilayer graphene (BLG) with a tunable bandgap appears interesting as an alternative to graphene for practical applications, thus its transport properties are being actively pursued. Using density functional theory and perturbation analysis,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-11 Changwon Park , Junga Ryou , Suklyun Hong , Bobby Sumpter , Gunn Kim , Mina Yoon

We report a double-layer electronic system made of two closely-spaced but electrically isolated graphene monolayers sandwiched in boron nitride. For large carrier densities in one of the layers, the adjacent layer no longer exhibits a…

The interlayer coupling of twisted bilayer graphene could markedly affect its electronic band structure. A current challenge required to overcome in experiment is how to precisely control the coupling and therefore tune the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 Lan Meng , Wei Yan , Zhao-Dong Chu , Yanfeng Zhang , Lei Feng , Rui-Fen Dou , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

We study the electronic structure of multilayer graphene using a $\pi$-orbital continuum model with nearest-neighbor intralayer and interlayer tunneling. Using degenerate state perturbation theory, we show that the low-energy electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-18 Hongki Min , A. H. MacDonald

This study theoretically investigated the magnetic properties and electronic structure of a graphene-based nano-spin-valve-like structure. Magnetic nickel layers on both sides of the graphene were considered. A spin-polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 Yusuf Wicaksono , Shingo Teranishi , Kazutaka Nishiguchi , Koichi Kusakabe

In neutral graphene dots the Fermi level coincides with the Dirac points. We have investigated in the presence of a magnetic field several unusual properties of single electron states near the Fermi level of such a rectangular-shaped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-24 S. C. Kim , P. S. Park , S. -R. Eric Yang

We explore the rotational degree of freedom between graphene layers via the simple prototype of the graphene twist bilayer, i.e., two layers rotated by some angle $\theta$. It is shown that, due to the weak interaction between graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-13 S. Shallcross , S. Sharma , E. Kandelaki , O. A. Pankratov