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Graphene is intrinsically non-flat and corrugates randomly. Since the corrugating physics of atomically-thin graphene is strongly tied to its electronics properties, randomly corrugating morphology of graphene poses significant challenge to…
Small-twist-angle bilayer graphene supports strongly correlated insulating states and superconductivity. Twisted few-layer graphene systems are likely to open up new directions for strong correlation physics in moir\'e superlattices. We…
Experiments are finally revealing intricate facts about graphene which go beyond the ideal picture of relativistic Dirac fermions in pristine two dimensional (2D) space, two years after its first isolation. While observations of rippling…
Equilateral triangle-shaped graphene nanoislands with a lateral dimension of $n$ benzene rings are known as $[n]$triangulenes. Individual $[n]$triangulenes are open-shell molecules, with single-particle electronic spectra that host $n-1$…
The atomic structure, stacking sequences and electronic structure of folded graphene nanoribbons (FGNRs) are investigated by first-principles calculations. It reveals that the common configurations of all FGNRs are racket-like structures…
We present a comprehensive first-principles study of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) for a wide range of twist angles, with a focus on structural and electronic properties. By employing density functional theory (DFT) with an optimized…
While preserving many of the unusual features of single-layer graphene, few-layer graphene (FLG) provides a richness and flexibility of electronic structure that render this set of materials of great interest for both fundamental studies…
Among the many interesting features displayed by graphene, one of the most attractive is the simplicity with which its electronic structure can be described. The study of its physical properties is significantly simplified by the linear…
Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) exhibits a wide range of intriguing physical properties, such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and superlubricity. Depending on the twist angle, periodic moir\'e superlattices form in twisted bilayer…
There is an increasing interest in the electronic properties of few layer graphene as it offers a platform to study electronic interactions because the dispersion of bands can be tuned with number and stacking of layers in combination with…
We investigate the electronic transport properties of a bilayer graphene flake contacted by two monolayer nanoribbons. Such a finite-size bilayer flake can be built by overlapping two semiinfinite ribbons or by depositing a monolayer flake…
Band structure determines the motion of electrons in a solid, giving rise to exotic phenomena when properly engineered. Drawing an analogy between electrons and photons, artificially designed optical lattices indicate the possibility of a…
Charge-neutral conducting systems represent a class of materials with unusual properties governed by electron-hole (e-h) interactions. Depending on the quasiparticles' statistics, band structure, and device geometry these semimetallic…
One- and two-dimensional bilayer systems are examples of ultra-tunable quantum materials that are considered as the basis for the new generation of electronic and photonic devices. Here we develop a general theory of the electron band…
It is shown that for monolayer graphene electrons are confined on a perfect two dimensional surface. The implications for the electronic properties of corrugated graphene are discussed in view of a derivation of the constrained relativistic…
The recently synthesized 30$^\circ$ twisted bilayer graphene (30$^\circ$-TBG) systems are unique quasicrystal systems possessing dodecagonal symmetry with graphene's relativistic properties. We employ a real-space numerical atomistic…
In this review, we present recent works on materials whose common point is the presence of electronic bands of very low dispersion, called "flat bands", which are due to specific atomic order effects without electron interactions. These…
We investigate the fine structure of the edge states energy spectrum for zigzag and armchair ribbons of graphene in a strong magnetic field. At low energy, the spectra can be described by an effective Schrodinger Hamiltonian with a double…
A computational method is developed whereby the reflectivity of low-energy electrons from a surface can be obtained from a first-principles solution of the electronic structure of the system. The method is applied to multilayer graphene.…
Electronic properties of two-dimensional graphene superlattice made with partial hydrogenation were thoroughly studied via Density Functional Tight Binding approach (DFTB) which incorporates the tight-binding method into the density…