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The speed of silicon-based transistors has reached an impasse in the recent decade, primarily due to scaling techniques and the short-channel effect. Conversely, graphene (a revolutionary new material possessing an atomic thickness) has…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-03 K. C. Yung , W. M. Wu , M. P. Pierpoint , F. V. Kusmartsev

We study uniaxially strained graphene under the influence of non-uniform magnetic fields perpendicular to the material sample with a coordinate independent strain tensor. For that purpose, we solve the Dirac equation with anisotropic Fermi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-12 Yajaira Concha Sanchez , Adolfo Huet , Alfredo Raya , David Valenzuela

Electronic band structures in hydrogenated graphene are theoretically investigated by means of first-principle calculations and an effective tight-binding model. It is shown that regularly designed hydrogenation to graphene gives rise to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Yong-Cheng Jiang , Toshikaze Kariyado , Xiao Hu

At large commensurate angles, twisted bilayer graphene which holds even parity under sublattice exchange exhibits a tiny gap. Here, we point out a way to tune this tiny gap into a large gap. We start from comprehensive understanding of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Xiu-Cai Jiang , Yi-Yuan Zhao , Yu-Zhong Zhang

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 structural and electronic properties of $A$TiO$_3$ ($A$=Ca, Sr, Ba) have been investigated under strain-free situation and with realistic constraints using first-principles calculations. We endeavored to find out the interplay between…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-08 Patrick Ning'i , Stephen Chege , James Sifuna , George Amolo

Using full potential density functional calculations within local density approximation (LDA), we report our investigation of the structural electronic properties of silicene (the graphene analogue of silicon), the strips of which has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-06 Harihar Behera , Gautam Mukhopadhyay

The linewidths of the electronic bands originating from the electron-phonon coupling in graphene are analyzed based on model tight-binding calculations and experimental angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) data. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-05 B. Hellsing , T. Frederiksen , F. Mazzola , T. Balasubramanian , J. Wells

Using first-principles calculations of graphene having high-symmetry distortion or defects, we investigate band gap opening by chiral symmetry breaking, or intervalley mixing, in graphene and show an intuitive picture of understanding the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-12-10 Sung-Hoon Lee , Hyun-Jong Chung , Jinseong Heo , Heejun Yang , Jaikwang Shin , U-In Chung , Sunae Seo

The effect of strain in graphene is usually modeled by a pseudo-magnetic vector potential which is, however, derived in the limit of small strain. In realistic cases deviations are expected in view of graphene's very high strain tolerance,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-27 D. Moldovan , M. Ramezani Masir , F. M. Peeters

Chiral graphene nanoribbons are extremely interesting structures due to their low bandgaps and potential development of spin-polarized edge states. Here, we study their band structure on low work function silver surfaces and assess the…

Crystal fields occur due to a potential difference between chemically different atomic species. In Van-der-Waals heterostructures such fields are naturally present perpendicular to the planes. It has been realized recently that twisted…

We have fabricated graphene nano-ribbon field-effect transistor devices and investigated their electrical properties as a function of ribbon width. Our experiments show that the resistivity of a ribbon increases as its width decreases,…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-12-17 Zhihong Chen , Yu-Ming Lin , Michael J. Rooks , Phaedon Avouris

The experimental control over the twist angle in twisted bilayer graphene has not been reported and its realistic structure is most likely incommensurate. In this paper, we develop a tight-binding virtual crystal approximation theory to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 D. Ghader , D. Szczȩśniak , A. Khater

We investigate the electronic properties of corrugated graphene and show how rippling-induced pseudomagnetic fields alter graphene's low-energy electronic properties by combining first principles calculations with an effective field theory.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. O. Wehling , A. V. Balatsky , A. M. Tsvelik , M. I. Katsnelson , A. I. Lichtenstein

Diverse emergent correlated electron phenomena have been observed in twisted graphene layers due to electronic interactions with the moir\'e superlattice potential. Many electronic structure predictions have been reported exploring this new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 J. E. Nunn , A. McEllistrim , A. Weston , A. Garcia-Ruiz , M. D. Watson , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , C. Cacho , R. Gorbachev , V. I. Fal'ko , N. R. Wilson

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-30 Xiao Li , Fengcheng Wu , Allan H. MacDonald

The characteristics of energy band spectrum of armchair graphene nanoribbons in presence of line defect are analyzed within a simple non-interacting tight-binding framework. In metallic nanoribbons an energy gap may or may not appear in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-19 Paramita Dutta , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

We have performed a theoretical study of electronic transport in single and bilayer graphene based on the standard linear-response (Kubo) formalism and continuum-model descriptions of the graphene band structure. We are focusing especially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-25 J. Z. Bernad , U. Zuelicke , K. Ziegler

An analytical study of low-energy electronic excited states in an uniformly strained graphene is carried out up to second-order in the strain tensor. We report an new effective Dirac Hamiltonian with an anisotropic Fermi velocity tensor,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Maurice Oliva-Leyva , Chumin Wang
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