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It has been shown in a recent study [Nguyen et al., Nanotechnol. \textbf{25}, 165201 (2014)] that unstrained/strained graphene junctions are promising candidates to improve the performance of graphene transistors that is usually hindered by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 Mai Chung Nguyen , Viet Hung Nguyen , Huy-Viet Nguyen , Philippe Dollfus

We show that the assumption of a nontrivial zero band gap for a graphene sheet within an effective relativistic field theoretical model description of interacting Dirac electrons on the surface of graphene describes the experimental band…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-27 A. J. Chaves , G. D. Lima , W. de Paula , C. E. Cordeiro , A. Delfino , T. Frederico , O. Oliveira

The graphene membrane irradiated by weak activating alternative electric field in terahertz range was considered. The quantum approach based on the time-dependent density matrix method was used. The exact solution was obtained for graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 N. E. Firsova , Yu. A. Firsov

The mode-dependent transmission of relativistic ballistic massless Dirac fermion through a graphene based double barrier structure is being investigated for various barrier parameters. We compare our results with already published work and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ahmed Jellal , El Bouazzaoui Choubabi , Hocine Bahlouli , Abdullah Aljaafari

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

The chemical stability of graphene and other free-standing two-dimensional crystals means that they can be stacked in different combinations to produce a new class of functional materials, designed for specific device applications. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-03 L. Britnell , R. V. Gorbachev , A. K. Geim , L. A. Ponomarenko , A. Mishchenko , M. T. Greenaway , T. M. Fromhold , K. S. Novoselov , L. Eaves

We investigate the effects of uniaxial strain on the transport properties of vertical devices made of two twisted graphene layers, which partially overlap each other. We find that because of the different orientations of the two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Viet Hung Nguyen , Huy-Viet Nguyen , Jerome Saint Martin , Philippe Dollfus

We calculated the optical properties of an $N$-layer graphene by formulating the dynamical conductivity of each layer. This is the conductivity when an electromagnetic field is localized at a particular layer and differs from the standard…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-25 Ken-ichi Sasaki

Recent experimental findings and theoretical predictions suggest that nitrogen-doped CVD-grown graphene may give rise to electronic band gaps due to impurity distributions which favour segregation on a single sublattice. Here we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Thomas Aktor , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Stephen R. Power

The electronic transport properties and band structures for the graphene-based one-dimensional (1D) superlattices with periodic squared potentials are investigated. It is found that a new Dirac point is formed, which is exactly located at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-25 Li-Gang Wang , Shi-Yao Zhu

Electron transport in small graphene nanoribbons is studied by microwave emulation experiments and tight-binding calculations. In particular, it is investigated under which conditions a transport gap can be observed. Our experiments provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Thomas Stegmann , John A. Franco-Villafañe , Ulrich Kuhl , Fabrice Mortessagne , Thomas H. Seligman

We study the tunneling of chiral electrons in graphene through a region where the electronic spectrum changes from the usual linear dispersion to a hyperbolic dispersion, due to the presence of a gap. It is shown that contrary to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-09 J. Viana Gomes , N. M. R. Peres

A theory of electron states for graphene nanoribbons with a smoothly varying width is developed. It is demonstrated that the standard adiabatic approximation allowing to neglect the mixing of different standing waves is more restrictive for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 M. I. Katsnelson

We investigate the optical properties of edge-functionalized graphene nanosystems, focusing on the formation of junctions and charge transfer excitons. We consider a class of graphene structures which combine the main electronic features of…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-18 Caterina Cocchi , Deborah Prezzi , Alice Ruini , Marilia J. Caldas , Elisa Molinari

The electronic properties of graphene may be changed from semimetallic to semiconducting by introducing perforations (antidots) in a periodic pattern. The properties of such graphene antidot lattices (GALs) have previously been studied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-12 S. J. Brun , M. R. Thomsen , T. G. Pedersen

We study transport in undoped graphene in the presence of a superlattice potential both within a simple continuum model and using numerical tight-binding calculations. The continuum model demonstrates that the conductivity of the system is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-31 P. Burset , A. Levy Yeyati , L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

Electronic transport in a graphene-based ferromagnetic/normal/ferromagnetic junction is investigated by means of Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formulism and the nonequilibrium Green's function technique. For the zigzag edge case, the results show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jiang-chai Chen , Shu-guang Cheng , Shun-Qing Shen , Qing-feng Sun

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are natural waveguides for electrons in graphene. Nevertheless, unlike micron-sized samples, conductance is nearly suppressed in these narrow graphene stripes, mainly due to scattering with edge disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-28 E. J. Robles-Raygoza , V. G. Ibarra-Sierra , J. C. Sandoval-Santana , R. Carrillo-Bastos

The reflectance of graphene is investigated in the framework of the Dirac model with account of its realistic properties, such as nonzero chemical potential and band gap, at any temperature. For this purpose, the exact reflection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , V. M. Petrov

We provide an updated study of some electronic properties of graphene nanoscrolls, exploiting a related curved space Dirac equation for the charge carriers. To this end, we consider an explicit parametrization in cylindrical coordinates,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-19 Antonio Gallerati