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Macroscopic concentration of massless charge carriers with linear conic spectrum - Dirac Fermions (DF) - was shown in 2004 to exist in highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) and governs its electronic properties. These carriers can have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-18 I. Luk'yanchuk , Y. Kopelevich , M. El Marssi

We show by first-principles calculations that p-doped graphane is a conventional superconductor with a critical temperature (Tc) above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen. The unique strength of the chemical bonds between carbon atoms and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-12 G. Savini , A. C. Ferrari , F. Giustino

Insight into why superconductivity in pristine and doped monolayer graphene seems strongly suppressed has been central for the recent years' various creative approaches to realize superconductivity in graphene and graphene-like systems. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-12 Even Thingstad , Akashdeep Kamra , Justin W. Wells , Asle Sudbø

In condensed-matter systems, electrons are subjected to two different interactions under certain conditions. Even if both interactions are weak, it is difficult to perform perturbative calculations due to the complexity caused by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-20 Zhao-Kun Yang , Xiao-Yin Pan , Guo-Zhu Liu

Interlayer space in graphite is impermeable to ions and molecules, including protons. Its controlled expansion would find several applications in desalination, gas purification, high-density batteries, etc. In the past, metal intercalation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Lalita Saini , Siva Sankar Nemala , Aparna Rathi , Suvigya Kaushik , Gopinadhan Kalon

Graphene, a monolayer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal pattern, provides a unique two-dimensional (2D) system exhibiting exotic phenomena such as quantum Hall effects, massless Dirac quasiparticle excitations and universal absorption…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 K. M. Dani , J. Lee , R. Sharma , A. D. Mohite , C. M. Galande , P. M. Ajayan , A. M. Dattelbaum , H. Htoon , A. J. Taylor , R. P. Prasankumar

We present a phenomenological theory of the low energy moir\'e minibands of Dirac electrons in graphene placed on an almost commensurate hexagonal underlay with a unit cell pproximately three times larger than that of graphene.A slight…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-15 J. R. Wallbank , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , V. I. Fal'ko

The 2D Fermi surface of 1st stage PdAl2Cl8 acceptor-type graphite intercalation compounds (GICs) has been investigated using the Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) effect. One fundamental frequency is observed, the angular variation of which confirms…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. T. F. van Schaijk , A. de Visser , E. McRae , B. Sundqvist , T. Wagberg , R. Vangelisti

Graphene in the presence of a strong external magnetic field is a unique attraction for investigations of the fractional quantum Hall (fQH) states with odd and even denominators of the fraction. Most of the attempts to understand Graphene…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-25 Saurabh Maiti , Tigran Sedrakyan

Graphene and its heterostructures exhibit interesting electronic properties and are explored for quantum spin Hall effect(QSHE) and magnetism based device applications. In present work, we propose a heterostructure of graphene encapsulated…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-07 Mohammed Ghadiyali , Sajeev Chacko

Recently the graphene/SiC interface has emerged as a versatile platform for the epitaxy of otherwise unstable, monoelemental, two-dimensional (2D) layers via intercalation. Intrinsically capped into a van der Waals heterostructure with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-23 Philipp Rosenzweig , Hrag Karakachian , Dmitry Marchenko , Ulrich Starke

We explore the electronic ground states of Bernal-stacked multilayer graphenes using the Hartree-Fock mean-field approximation and the full-parameter band model. We find that the electron-electron interaction tends to open a band gap in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 Mikito Koshino , Kyoka Sugisawa , Edward McCann

Hybrids of graphene and two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) have the potential to bring graphene spintronics to the next level. As we show here by performing first-principles calculations of graphene on monolayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

The remarkable properties of graphene stem from its two-dimensional (2D) structure, with a linear dispersion of the electronic states at the corners of the Brillouin zone (BZ) forming a Dirac cone. Since then, other 2D materials have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-06 S. Sadeddine , H. Enriquez , A. Bendounan , P. Das , I. Vobornik , A. Kara , A. Mayne , F. Sirotti , G. Dujardin , H. Oughaddou

We report the dispersion measurements, using angle-resolved reflection electron-energy-loss-spectroscopy (AREELS), on two-dimensional (2D) plasmons in single and multilayer graphene which couple strongly to surface optical phonon (FK…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-03 Yu Liu , Roy F. Willis

Layered electrides, as typified by Ca$_2$N, are a new class of quasi-two-dimensional materials with low work functions. Using first-principles calculations, we have shown that a graphene layer deposited on Ca$_2$N is doped to $n=5\times…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-20 Takeshi Inoshita , Masaru Tsukada , Susumu Saito , Hideo Hosono

Graphene is an attractive material for microelectronics applications, given such favourable electrical characteristics as high mobility, high operating frequency, and good stability. If graphene is to be implemented in electronic devices on…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-14 B. C. Worley , S. Kim , T. J. Ha , S. Park , R. Haws , P. Rossky , D. Akinwande , A. Dodabalapur

Epitaxial graphene on SiC possesses, quite remarkably, an electron spectrum similar to that of freestanding samples. Yet, the coupling to the substrate, albeit small, affects the quasiparticle properties. Combining \emph{ab initio}…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Oleg Pankratov , Stephan Hensel , Michel Bockstedte

A class of graphene wound into three-dimensional periodic curved surfaces ("graphitic zeolites") is proposed and their electronic structures are obtained to explore how the massless Dirac fermions behave on periodic surfaces. We find in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Mikito Koshino , Hideo Aoki

Multi-layer graphene on the carbon face of silicon carbide is an intriguing electronic system which typically consists of a stack of ten or more layers. Rotational stacking faults in this system dramatically reduce inter-layer coherence. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-01 Rosario E. V. Profumo , Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , Rosario Fazio , A. H. MacDonald