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We calculate the local current density in pristine armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) with varying width, $N_\mathrm{C}$, employing a density-functional-theory-based ab initio transport formalism. We observe very pronounced current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-15 Jan Wilhelm , Michael Walz , Ferdinand Evers

Two-dimensional carbon, or graphene, is a semi-metal that presents unusual low-energy electronic excitations described in terms of Dirac fermions. We analyze in a self-consistent way the effects of localized (impurities or vacancies) and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 N. M. R. Peres , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

We have studied the electronic properties in aperiodic graphene superlattices of Thue-Morse sequence. Although the structure is aperiodic, an unusual Dirac point (DP) does exist and its location is exactly at the position of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-28 Tianxing Ma , Chun Liang , Li-Gang Wang , Hai-Qing Lin

We study quasiparticle dynamics in graphene exposed to a linearly-polarized electromagnetic wave of very large intensity. Low-energy transport in such system can be described by an effective time-independent Hamiltonian, characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 S. V. Syzranov , Ya. I. Rodionov , K. I. Kugel , F. Nori

The conductance of ballistic graphene at the neutrality point is due to coherent electron tunneling between the leads, the so called pseudodiffusive regime. The conductance scales as function of the sample dimensions in the same way as in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson

In the recent years many researches were performed about graphene. Graphene is always considered a half metal or a zero gap semiconductor. In the last year new experiments were done about graphene on boron nitride and they obtained an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Salvatore Croce

We studied the magneto-transport properties of graphene prepared by exfoliation on a III V semiconductor substrate. Tuneability of the carrier density of graphene was achieved by using a doped GaAs substrate as a back-gate. A GaAs/AlAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-25 Mirosław Woszczyna , Miriam Friedemann , Klaus Pierz , Thomas Weimann , Franz J. Ahlers

We study the effect of a sharply localized magnetic field on the electron transport in a strip (ribbon) of graphene sheet, which allows to give results for the transmission and reflection probability through magnetic barriers. The magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Abdulaziz D. Alhaidari , Hocine Bahlouli , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

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

This paper explores the transport properties of aluminum-carbon composite material via ab initio methods. Interfacial and electronic dynamics of the aluminum-graphene interface structure were investigated using models of amorphous graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-12 K. Nepal , C. Ugwumadu , A. Gautam , K. Kappagantula , D. A. Drabold

This article reviews the basic theoretical aspects of graphene, a one atom thick allotrope of carbon, with unusual two-dimensional Dirac-like electronic excitations. The Dirac electrons can be controlled by application of external electric…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-15 A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim

Using the self-consistent Born approximation to the Dirac fermions under finite-range impurity scatterings, we show that the current-current correlation function is determined by four-coupled integral equations. This is very different from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-06-10 Xin-Zhong Yan , Yousef Romiah , C. S. Ting

We solve the Dirac equation, which describes charge massless chiral relativistic carriers in a two-dimensional graphene. We have identified and analysed a novel pseudospin-dependent scattering effect. We compute the tunneling conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 Dima Bolmatov , D. V. Zavialov

We show that the low-energy electronic structure of graphene under a one-dimensional inhomogeneous magnetic field can be mapped into that of graphene under an electric field or vice versa. As a direct application of this transformation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-31 Liang Zheng Tan , Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie

Transport measurements have revealed several exotic electronic properties of graphene. The possibility to influence the electronic structure and hence control the conductivity by adsorption or doping with adatoms is crucial in view of…

We study the low-energy electronic transport across periodic extended defects in graphene. In the continuum low-energy limit, such defects act as infinitesimally thin stripes separating two regions where Dirac Hamiltonian governs the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-14 J. N. B. Rodrigues , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos

Electrons moving in graphene behave as massless Dirac fermions, and they exhibit fascinating low-frequency electrical transport phenomena. Their dynamic response, however, is little known at frequencies above one terahertz (THz). Such…

An analysis of the electron localization properties in doped graphene is performed by doing a numerical multifractal analysis. By obtaining the singularity spectrum of a tight-binding model, it is found that the electron wave functions…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-07-01 J. E. Barrios-Vargas , Gerardo G. Naumis

We have developed the combination of an etching and deposition technique that enables the fabrication of locally gated graphene nanostructures of arbitrary design. Employing this method, we have fabricated graphene nanoconstrictions with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Barbaros Özyilmaz , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Dmitri Efetov , Philip Kim

We study the role of long-range electron-electron interactions in a system of two-dimensional anisotropic Dirac fermions, which naturally appear in uniaxially strained graphene, graphene in external potentials, some strongly anisotropic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-24 Anand Sharma , Valeri N. Kotov , Antonio H. Castro Neto