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Electron transport in a graphene quantum well can be analogous to photon transmission in an optical fiber. In this work, we present a detailed theoretical analysis to study the transport characteristics of graphene waveguides under the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Nayyar Abbas Shah , Vahid Mosallanejad , Kuei-Lin Chiu , Guo-ping Guo

We systematically investigate the transmission of charge carriers across the grain-boundary defects in polycrystalline graphene by means of the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism within the tight-binding approximation. Calculations reveal a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-05 Fernando Gargiulo , Oleg V. Yazyev

Bilayer graphene can exhibit deformations such that the two graphene sheets are locally detached from each other resulting in a structure consisting of domains with different inter-layer coupling. Here we investigate how the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 Hasan M. Abdullah , B. Van Duppen , M. Zarenia , H. Bahlouli , F. M. Peeters

We report on ballistic transport over more than 28 \mu m in graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) that is fully encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride. The structures are fabricated by an advanced dry van-der-Waals transfer…

We study tunneling across a strain-induced superlattice in graphene. In studying the effect of applied strain on the low-lying Dirac-like spectrum, both a shift of the Dirac points in reciprocal space, and a deformation of the Dirac cones…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

We investigated the transient photoconductivity of graphene at various gate-tuned carrier densities by optical-pump terahertz-probe spectroscopy. We demonstrated that graphene exhibits semiconducting positive photoconductivity near zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 A. J. Frenzel , C. H. Lui , Y. C. Shin , J. Kong , N. Gedik

Effects of disorder on the electronic transport properties of graphene are strongly affected by the Dirac nature of the charge carriers in graphene. This is particularly pronounced near the Dirac point, where relativistic charge carriers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Atikur Rahman , Janice Wynn Guikema , Nina Markovic

We theoretically study the electrical, thermal and thermoelectric transport properties of graphene nanoribbons under torsional deformations. The modelling follows a nonequilibrium Green's function approach in the ballistic transport regime,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Aleandro Antidormi , Miquel Royo , Riccardo Rurali

A continuous deformation of a Hamiltonian possessing at low energy two Dirac points of opposite chiralities can lead to a gap opening by merging of the two Dirac points. In two dimensions, the critical Hamiltonian possesses a semi-Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 P. Adroguer , D. Carpentier , G. Montambaux , E. Orignac

Impurities are unavoidable during the preparation of graphene samples and play an important role in graphene's electronic properties when they are adsorbed on graphene surface. In this work, we study the electronic structures and transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Lan Chen , Fangping Ouyang , Songshan Ma , Tie-Feng Fang , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

We present a detailed numerical study of the electronic properties of single-layer graphene with resonant ("hydrogen") impurities and vacancies within a framework of noninteracting tight-binding model on a honeycomb lattice. The algorithms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-29 Shengjun Yuan , Hans De Raedt , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

The peculiar nature of electron scattering in graphene is among many exciting theoretical predictions for the physical properties of this material. To investigate electron scattering properties in a graphene plane, we have created a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 B. Huard , J. A. Sulpizio , N. Stander , K. Todd , B. Yang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

The electron transmission between monolayer and bilayer graphene is theoretically studied for zigzag and armchair boundaries within an effective-mass scheme. Due to the presence of an evanescent wave in the bilayer graphene, traveling modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 Takeshi Nakanishi , Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

Recent experiments have uncovered evidence of the strongly coupled nature of the graphene: the Wiedemann-Franz law is violated by up to a factor of 20 near the charge neutral point. We describe this strongly-coupled plasma by a holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-25 Yunseok Seo , Geunho Song , Philip Kim , Subir Sachdev , Sang-Jin Sin

We analyze the effect of tensional strain in the electronic structure of graphene. In the absence of electron-electron interactions, within linear elasticity theory, and a tight-binding approach, we observe that strain can generate a bulk…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-07-15 Vitor M. Pereira , A. H. Castro Neto , N. M. R. Peres

We study non-linear dc transport in graphene using a hydrodynamic approach and conclude that in clean samples the drift velocity saturates at a weakly density-dependent value v_{sat} ~ 10^7 cm/s. We show that saturation results from the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Bistritzer , A. H. MacDonald

Graphene is a 2-dimensional material with high carrier mobility and thermal conductivity, suitable for high-speed electronics. Conduction and valence bands touch at the Dirac point. The absorptivity of single-layer graphene is 2.3%, nearly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-11 Marcus Freitag , Hsin-Ying Chiu , Mathias Steiner , Vasili Perebeinos , Phaedon Avouris

We report an electron transport study of lithographically fabricated graphene nanoribbons of various widths and lengths at different temperatures. At the charge neutrality point, a length-independent transport gap forms whose size is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Melinda Y. Han , Juliana C. Brant , Philip Kim

We study the effects of uniaxial strains on the transport properties of the graphene nanoribbons(GNRs) connected with two metallic leads in heterojunctions, using the transfer matrix method. Two typical GNRs with zigzag and armchair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jing Wang , Guiping Zhang , Fei Ye , Xiaoqun Wang

We study the broadband optical conductivity and ultrafast carrier dynamics of epitaxial graphene in the few-layer limit. Equilibrium spectra of nominally buffer, monolayer, and multilayer graphene exhibit significant terahertz and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-05-02 H. Choi , F. Borondics , D. A. Siegel , S. Y. Zhou , M. C. Martin , A. Lanzara , R. A. Kaindl