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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

In rhombohedral-stacked few-layer graphene, the very flat energy bands near the charge neutrality point are unstable to electronic interactions, giving rise to states with spontaneous broken symmetries. Using transport measurements on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 K. Myhro , S. Che , Y. Shi , Y. Lee , K. Thilahar , K. Bleich , Dmitry Smirnov , C. N. Lau

We study the intrinsic transport properties of suspended graphene devices at high fields (>1 V/um) and high temperatures (>1000 K). Across 15 samples, we find peak (average) saturation velocity of 3.6x10^7 cm/s (1.7x10^7 cm/s), and peak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-02 Vincent E. Dorgan , Ashkan Behnam , Hiram J. Conley , Kirill I. Bolotin , Eric Pop

The metal-graphene contact resistance is a technological bottleneck for the realization of viable graphene based electronics. We report a useful model to find the gate tunable components of this resistance determined by the sequential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-03 Ferney A. Chaves , David Jiménez , Abhay A. Sagade , Wonjae Kim , Juha Riikonen , Harri Lipsanen , Daniel Neumaier

All-carbon heterostructures have been produced recently via focused ion beam patterning of single layer graphene. Amorphized graphene is similar to a graphene sheet in which some hexagons are replaced by a combination of pentagonal,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-07 B Mortazavi , Z Fan , LFC Pereira , A Harju , T Rabczuk

We study the effect of electron-acoustic phonon interactions in twisted bilayer graphene on resistivity in the high-temperature transport and superconductivity in the low-temperature phase diagram. We theoretically show that twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Fengcheng Wu , Euyheon Hwang , Sankar Das Sarma

Cryogenic microsystems that utilize different 3D integration techniques are being actively developed, e.g., for the needs of quantum technologies. 3D integration can introduce opportunities and challenges to the thermal management of low…

We calculate thermopower of clean and impure bilayer graphene systems. Opening a band gap through the application of an external electric field is shown to greatly enhance the thermopower of bilayer graphene, which is more than four times…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Lei Hao , T. K. Lee

Edge effects play an important role for many properties of graphene. While most works have focused on the effects from isolated free edges, we present a novel knotting phenomenon induced by the interactions between a pair of free edges in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 Hao-Yu Zhang , Jin-Wu Jiang , Tienchong Chang , Xingming Guo , Harold S. Park

Graphene wetting by polymers is a critical issue to both the success of polymer-aided transfer of large size sheets onto specific substrates and to the development of well performing nanocomposites. Here we show for the first time that high…

Conduction between graphene layers is suppressed by momentum conservation whenever the layer stacking has a rotation. Here we show that phonon scattering plays a crucial role in facilitating interlayer conduction. The resulting dependence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. Perebeinos , J. Tersoff , Ph. Avouris

The fate of the low-temperature conductance at the charge-neutrality (Dirac) point in a single sheet of graphene is investigated down to 20 mK. As the temperature is lowered, the peak resistivity diverges with a power-law behavior and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 F. Amet , J. R. Williams , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

The exact vanishing of the interaction corrections to the zero temperature and zero frequency conductivity of graphene in the presence of weak short range interactions is rigorously established.

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 Alessandro Giuliani , Vieri Mastropietro , Marcello Porta

Central to most applications involving monolayer graphene is its mechanical response under various stress states. To date most of the work reported is of theoretical nature and refers to tension and compression loading of model graphene.…

We demonstrate high-frequency mechanical resonators in ballistic graphene p-n junctions. Fully suspended graphene devices with two bottom gates exhibit ballistic bipolar behavior after current annealing. We determine the graphene mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 Minkyung Jung , Peter Rickhaus , Simon Zihlmann , Alexander Eichler , Peter Makk , Christian Schönenberger

We report an approach to achieve low-resistance contacts to MoS2 transistors with the intrinsic performance of the MoS2 channel preserved. Through a dry transfer technique and a metal-catalyzed graphene treatment process,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Wei Sun Leong , Xin Luo , Yida Li , Khoong Hong Khoo , Su Ying Quek , John T. L. Thong

The development of cryogenic semiconductor electronics and superconducting quantum computing requires composite materials that can provide both thermal conduction and thermal insulation. We demonstrated that at cryogenic temperatures, the…

We theoretically calculate the phonon scattering limited electron mobility in extrinsic (i.e. gated or doped with a tunable and finite carrier density) 2D graphene layers as a function of temperature $(T)$ and carrier density $(n)$. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-12 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

The intercalation of an oxide barrier between graphene and its metallic substrate for chem- ical vapor deposition is a contamination-free alternative to the transfer of graphene to dielectric supports, usually needed for the realization of…

We present thermal measurements of large area (over $1,000$~$\mu$m$^2$) monolayer graphene samples at cryogenic temperatures to study the electron-phonon thermal conductivity of graphene. By using two large samples with areas which differ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Christopher B. McKitterick , Michael J. Rooks , Daniel E. Prober