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The extremely high carrier mobility and the unique band structure, make graphene very useful for field-effect transistor applications. According to several works, the primary limitation to graphene based transistor performance is not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Filippo Giubileo , Antonio Di Bartolomeo

Defects in solid commonly limit mechanical performance of the material. However, recent measurements reported that the extraordinarily high strength of graphene is almost retained with the presence of grain boundaries. We clarify in this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-06 Zhigong Song , Jian Wu , Zhiping Xu

Near-interfacial oxide traps and chemical impurities on the graphene surface or at the graphene-dielectric interface can be a source of intentional or unintentional doping of graphene sheet. The efficiency of such chemical doping can vary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 G. I. Zebrev , S. A. Shostachenko

We argue, for a wide class of systems including graphene, that in the low temperature, high density, large separation and strong screening limits the drag resistivity behaves as d^{-4}, where d is the separation between the two layers. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 B Amorim , N M R Peres

The ground-state and the transport properties of graphene subject to the potential of in-plane charged impurities are studied. The screening of the impurity potential is shown to be nonlinear, producing a fractal structure of electron and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-02 M. M. Fogler

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 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

Realizing graphene's promise as an atomically thin and tunable platform for fundamental studies and future applications in quantum transport requires the ability to electrostatically define the geometry of the structure and control the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-20 Rebeca Ribeiro-Palau , Shaowen Chen , Yihang Zeng , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , Cory R. Dean

Different scattering mechanisms in graphene are explored and conductivity is calculated within the Boltzmann transport theory. We provide results for short-range scattering using the Random Phase Approximation for electron screening, as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-15 Shaffique Adam , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Graphene has recently been attracting considerable interest because of its exceptional conductivity, mechanical strength, thermal stability, etc. Graphene-based devices exhibit high potential for applications in flexible electronics,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-06 Viet Phuong Pham

The effect of various dielectrics on charge mobility in single layer graphene is investigated. By calculating the remote optical phonon scattering arising from the polar substrates, and combining it with their effect on Coulombic impurity…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Aniruddha Konar , Tian Fang , Debdeep Jena

We study a suspended graphene sheet subject to the electric field of a gate underneath. We compute the elastic deformation of the sheet and the corresponding effective gauge field, which modifies the electronic transport. In a clean system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. M. Fogler , F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson

In this review, we provide an account of the recent progress in understanding electronic transport in disordered graphene systems. Starting from a theoretical description that emphasizes the role played by band structure properties and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Caio H. Lewenkopf

Graphene, a single atomic layer of graphitic carbon, has attracted intense attention due to its extraordinary properties that make it a suitable material for a wide range of technological applications. Large-area graphene films, which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-18 Oleg V. Yazyev , Yong P. Chen

Graphene is an intriguing material with properties that are distinct from those of other graphitic systems. The first samples of pristine graphene were obtained by peeling off and epitaxial growth. Recently, the chemical reduction of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Xiaolin Li , Guangyu Zhang , Xuedong Bai , Xiaoming Sun , Xinran Wang , Enge Wang , Hongjie Dai

We theoretically study the transport properties of both monolayer and bilayer graphene in the presence of electron-hole puddles induced by charged impurities which are invariably present in the graphene environment. We calculate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-28 Qiuzi Li , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We propose a route to all-graphene integrated electronic devices by exploring the influence of strain on the electronic structure of graphene. We show that strain can be easily tailored to generate electron beam collimation, 1D channels,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-24 Vitor M. Pereira , Antonio H. Castro Neto

It is significant to prepare large area of high quality graphene for the study of the characteristics of graphene and the research of the nano-devices based on graphene. This paper summarizes the experiment progresses and mechanism of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-01 Tian Yuan , Zhao Qian-Ying , Hu Jing , Zhou Chen , Miao Ling , Jiang Jian-Jun

The extreme mechanical resilience of graphene and the peculiar coupling it hosts between lattice and electronic degrees of freedom have spawned a strong impetus towards strain-engineered graphene where, on the one hand, strain augments the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Gareth W. Jones , D. A. Bahamon , A. H. Castro Neto , Vitor M. Pereira

This work deals with the intrinsic and extrinsic properties of the graphene layers inside the graphite structure, in particular the influence of defects and interfaces. We discuss the evidence for ballistic transport found in mesoscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-13 J. Barzola-Quiquia , A. Ballestar , S. Dusari , P. Esquinazi