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The recent discovery of superconductivity and magnetism in trilayer rhombohedral graphene (RG) establishes an ideal, untwisted platform to study strong correlation electronic phenomena. However, the correlated effects in multilayer RG have…

We have measured the mechanical properties of few-layer graphene and graphite flakes that are suspended over circular holes. The spatial profile of the flake's spring constant is measured with an atomic force microscope. The bending…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-16 Menno Poot , Herre S. J. van der Zant

All-carbon heterostructures have been produced recently via focused ion beam patterning of single layer graphene. Amorphized graphene is similar to a graphene sheet in which some hexagons are replaced by a combination of pentagonal,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-07 B Mortazavi , Z Fan , LFC Pereira , A Harju , T Rabczuk

The Fermi velocity is one of the key concepts in the study of a material, as it bears information on a variety of fundamental properties. Upon increasing demand on the device applications, graphene is viewed as a prototypical system for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 Choongyu Hwang , David A. Siegel , Sung-Kwan Mo , William Regan , Ariel Ismach , Yuegang Zhang , Alex Zettl , Alessandra Lanzara

Among its many outstanding properties, graphene supports terahertz surface plasma waves -- sub-wavelength charge density oscillations connected with electromagnetic fields that are tightly localized near the surface[1,2]. When these waves…

We report that gold thermally deposited onto n-layer graphenes interacts differently with these substrates depending on the number layer, indicating the different surface properties of graphenes. This results in thickness-dependent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2011-03-24 Haiqing Zhou , Caiyu Qiu , Zheng Liu , Huaichao Yang , Lijun Hu , Ji Liu , Haifang Yang , Changzhi Gu , Lianfeng Sun

We investigate the optoelectronic response of a graphene interface junction, formed with bilayer and single-layer graphene, by photocurrent (PC) microscopy. We measure the polarity and amplitude of the PC while varying the Fermi level by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Xiaodong Xu , Nathaniel M. Gabor , Jonathan S. Alden , Arend van der Zande , Paul L. McEuen

We report our theoretical calculations on the temperature and energy dependent electrical conductivity of gapped graphene within the framework of Boltzmann transport formalism. Since screening effects have known to be of vital importance in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 Digish K Patel , A C Sharma , S S Z Ashraf

This letter calculates the contribution of electron-phonon interaction to thermoelectric effects in graphene. One considers the case of free standing graphene taking into account interaction with intrinsic acoustic phonons. The temperatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-18 S. V. Koniakhin , E. D. Eidelman

We report on the first measurement of the thermal conductivity of a suspended single layer graphene. The measurements were performed using a non-contact optical technique. The near room-temperature values of the thermal conductivity in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-03-15 A. A. Balandin , S. Ghosh , W. Bao , I. Calizo , D. Teweldebrhan , F. Miao , C. N. Lau

Graphene field-effect transistors with source/drain contacts made of metals that can be easily oxidized such as ferromagnetic metals often display a double dip structure in the transfer characteristics because of charge density depinning at…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-07-28 Ryo Nouchi , Katsumi Tanigaki

This paper reviews the theoretical work undertaken using density functional theory (DFT) to explore graphene's interactions with its surroundings. We look at the impact of substrates, gate dielectrics and edge effects on the properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-31 Priyamvada Jadaun , Bhagawan R. Sahu , Leonard F. Register , Sanjay K. Banerjee

The present manuscript summarizes the modern view on the problem of the graphene-metal interaction. Presently, the close-packed surfaces of d metals are used as templates for the preparation of highly-ordered graphene layers. Different…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-23 E. N. Voloshina , Yu. S. Dedkov

The strong light-matter interaction in graphene over a broad frequency range has opened up a plethora of photonics applications of graphene. The goal of this paper is to present the voltage tunability of plasmons in gated single- and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-20 Shaloo Rakheja , Parijat Sengupta

This work evaluates the performance of carbon nanotube field effect transistors (CNTFET) using few layer graphene as the contact electrode material. We present the experimental results obtained on the barrier height at CNT graphene junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 P R Yasasvi Gangavarapu , Punith Chikkahalli Lokesh , K N Bhat , A K Naik

We provide a theoretical model that describes the dielectric coupling of a 2D layer of graphene, represented by a polarization function in the Random Phase Approximation, and a semi-infinite 3D substrate, represented by a surface response…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-10 K. F. Allison , Z. L. Miskovic

We have experimentally studied the nonlinear nature of electrical conduction in monolayer graphene devices on silica substrates. This nonlinearity manifests itself as a nonmonotonic dependence of the differential resistance on applied DC…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-04 A. S. Price , S. M. Hornett , A. V. Shytov , E. Hendry , D. W. Horsell

We investigate the fine structure of graphene on iridium, which is a model for graphene weakly interacting with a transition metal substrate. Even the highest quality epitaxial graphene displays tiny imperfections, i.e. small biaxial…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-02-25 Nils Blanc , Johann Coraux , Chi Vo-Van , Alpha T. N'Diaye , Olivier Geaymond , Gilles Renaud

We investigate interaction effects in transport phenomena in bilayer graphene (BLG). For the minimal conductivity in pristine BLG, we find that the conductivity assumes a constant value in the limit $T\to 0$, with the first correction being…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 Jonathan Lux , Lars Fritz

Graphene revealed a number of unique properties beneficial for electronics, including exceptionally high electron mobility and widely tunable Fermi level. However, graphene does not have an electron energy band gap, which presents a serious…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-16 Alexander A. Balandin