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Knowing the influence of the substrate type on the diffusion coefficient and the momentum relaxation in graphene is of great importance for the development of new device models specifically adapted to the peculiarities of this material. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-11 Raúl Rengel , Elena Pascual , María J. Martin

Graphene has an extremely high carrier mobility partly due to its planar mirror symmetry inhibiting scattering by the highly occupied acoustic flexural phonons. Electrostatic gating of a graphene device can break the planar mirror symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Tue Gunst , Kristen Kaasbjerg , Mads Brandbyge

We analyse the interaction between charges and graphene layers. The electric polarisability of graphene induces a force, that can be described by an image charge. The analysis shows that graphene can be described as an imperfect conductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-27 Francisco Guinea , Niels R. Walet

We review the fabrication and key transport properties of graphene double layers, consisting of two graphene monolayers placed in close proximity, independently contacted, and separated by an ultra-thin dielectric. We outline a simple band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-14 Seyoung Kim , Emanuel Tutuc

One of the factors limiting electron mobility in supported graphene is remote phonon scattering. We formulate the theory of the coupling between graphene plasmon and substrate surface polar phonon (SPP) modes, and find that it leads to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zhun-Yong Ong , Massimo V. Fischetti

We present a comparative study of high carrier density transport in mono-, bi-, and trilayer graphene using electric-double-layer transistors to continuously tune the carrier density up to values exceeding 10^{14} cm^{-2}. Whereas in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 J. T. Ye , M. F. Craciun , M. Koshino , S. Russo , S. Inoue , H. T. Yuan , H. Shimotani , A. F. Morpurgo , Y. Iwasa

We discuss the effect of the dielectric environment (insulators and metal gates) on electronic transport in two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) monolayers. We employ well-known ab initio methods to calculate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Sanjay Gopalan , Maarten L. Van de Put , Gautam Gaddemane , Massimo V. Fischetti

A discovery of the unusual thermal properties of graphene stimulated experimental, theoretical and computational research directed at understanding phonon transport and thermal conduction in two-dimensional material systems. We provide a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-16 Denis L. Nika , Alexander A. Balandin

Graphene is a fascinating material for exploring fundamental science questions as well as a potential building block for novel electronic applications. In order to realize the full potential of this material the fabrication techniques of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Eva Y. Andrei

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

We investigate the conductivity of doped graphene in the semiclassical Boltzmann limit, as well as the conductivity minimum within the self-consistent transport theory. Using the hard-disk model for a two-dimensional distribution of…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-21 Rastko Aničić , Zoran L. Mišković

Using the linearized Boltzmann transport equation and perturbation theory, we analyze the reduction in the intrinsic thermal conductivity of few-layer graphene sheets accounting for all possible three-phonon scattering events. Even with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Dhruv Singh , Jayathi Y. Murthy , Timothy S. Fisher

We theoretically consider, comparing with the existing experimental literature, the electrical conductivity of gated monolayer graphene as a function of carrier density, temperature, and disorder in order to assess the prospects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-28 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang

We study carrier transport through graphene on SrTiO$_3$ substrates by considering relative contributions of Coulomb and resonant impurity scattering to graphene resistivity. We establish that charged impurity scattering must dominate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 S. Das Sarma , Qiuzi Li

We have calculated the plasmon modes in graphene double layer structures at finite temperatures, taking into account the inhomogeneity of the dielectric background of the system. The effective dielectric function is obtained from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 S. M. Badalyan , F. M. Peeters

The electronic transport properties of single layer graphene having a dilute coating of indium adatoms has been investigated. Our studies establish that isolated indium atoms donate electrons to graphene and become a source of charged…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 U. Chandni , Erik A. Henriksen , J. P. Eisenstein

The peculiar nature of electron scattering in graphene is among many exciting theoretical predictions for the physical properties of this material. To investigate electron scattering properties in a graphene plane, we have created a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 B. Huard , J. A. Sulpizio , N. Stander , K. Todd , B. Yang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Charge carriers in a graphene sheet, a single layer of graphite, exhibit much distinctive characteristics to those in other two-dimensional electronic systems because of their chiral nature. In this report, we focus on the observation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-28 Dong-Keun Ki , Dongchan Jeong , Jae-Hyun Choi , Kee-Su Park , Hu-Jong Lee

The electrical transport properties of graphene are greatly influenced by its environment. Owing to its high dielectric constant, strontium titanate (STO) is expected to suppress the long-range charged impurity scattering and consequently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-04 Ray Sachs , Zhisheng Lin , Jing Shi

Using the semiclassical quantum Boltzmann equation (QBE), we numerically calculate the DC transport properties of bilayer graphene near charge neutrality. We find, in contrast to prior discussions, that phonon scattering is crucial even at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Glenn Wagner , Dung X. Nguyen , Steven H. Simon