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Bilayer graphene is normally a semimetal with parabolic dispersion, but a tunable bandgap up to few hundreds meV can be opened by breaking the symmetry between the layers through an external potential. Ab-initio calculations show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Simone De Liberato

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with widths down to 16 nm have been characterized for their current-carrying capacity. It is found that GNRs exhibit an impressive breakdown current density, on the order of 10^8 A/cm2. The breakdown current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Raghunath Murali , Yinxiao Yang , Kevin Brenner , Thomas Beck , James D. Meindl

Graphene is conceivably the most nonlinear optoelectronic material. Its nonlinear optical coefficients in the terahertz (THz) frequency range surpass those of other materials by many orders of magnitude. This, in particular, allows one to…

Exploration of optical non-linear response of graphene predominantly relies on ultra-short time domain measurements. Here we propose an alternate technique that uses frequency modulated continuous wavefront optical fields, thereby probing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-18 Ashutosh Singh , Saikat Ghosh , Amit Agarwal

Bilayer graphene (two coupled graphitic monolayers arranged according to Bernal stacking) is a two-dimensional gapless semiconductor with a peculiar electronic spectrum different from the Dirac spectrum in the monolayer material. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Kechedzhi , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , E. McCann , B. L. Altshuler

The Dirac point and linear band structure in Graphene bestow it with remarkable electronic and optical properties, a subject of intense ongoing research. Explanations of high electronic mobility in graphene, often invoke the masslessness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Chaitanya K. Ullal , Jian Shi , Ravishankar Sundararaman

The gapless energy band spectra make the structures based on graphene and graphene bilayers with the population inversion created by optical or injection pumping to be promising media for the interband terahertz (THz) lasing. However, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 D. Svintsov , T. Otsuji , V. Mitin , M. S. Shur , V. Ryzhii

We consider a periodic array of graphene nanoribbons under the action of a strong dc electric field $E_0$ and an external electromagnetic excitation with the frequency $\omega$ and the lateral wave vector $q$. Solving the quasi-classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 S. A. Mikhailov , N. A. Savostianova , A. S. Moskalenko

Twisted bilayer graphene has a rich phase diagram, including superconductivity. Recently, an unexpected discovery has been the observation of superconductivity in non-twisted graphene bilayers and trilayers. In this Perspective, we give an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Pierre A. Pantaleon , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Hector Sainz-Cruz , Vo Tien Phong , Tommaso Cea , Francisco Guinea

Single layers of hexagonal two-dimensional nanostructures such as graphene, silicene, and germanene exhibit large carrier Fermi velocities and, consequently, large light-matter coupling strength making these materials promising elements for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 H. K. Avetissian , G. F. Mkrtchian , K. G. Batrakov , S. A. Maksimenko

The generation of high-order harmonics in quasi-one-dimensional graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) initiated by intense coherent radiation is investigated. A microscopic theory describing the extreme nonlinear optical response of GNRs is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 H. K. Avetissian , B. R. Avchyan , G. F. Mkrtchian , K. A. Sargsyan

We study graphene on a photonic crystal operating in the terahertz (THz) spectral range. We show that the absorption of graphene becomes a modulated function of frequency and can be enhanced by more than three times at specific frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-25 Nuno M. R. Peres , Yuliy V. Bludov

We used a complete tight-binding band structure of graphene nanoribbon to obtain, for the first time, analytical techniques for observing photon assisted transport, and dynamic localization of electrons in the graphene nanoribbons. When the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-02-17 M. Rabiu , S. Y. Mensah , S. S. Abukari

The extraordinary electronic properties of graphene, such as its continuously gate-variable ambipolar field effect and the resulting steep change in resistivity, provided the main thrusts for the rapid advance of graphene electronics. The…

When high-frequency radiation is incident upon graphene subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field, graphene absorbs incident photons by allowing transitions between nearest LLs that follow strict selection rules dictated by angular…

We present the results of the calculations of longitudinal and Hall conductivities of AB-stacked bilayer graphene as a function of frequency, finite chemical potential, temperature both with and without magnetic fields on a base of 2- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 V. P. Gusynin , S. G. Sharapov , A. A. Reshetnyak

Recent observation of proximity effect \cite{Morpurgo:2007} has ignited interest in superconductivity in graphene and its derivatives. We consider Ca-intercalated graphene bilayer and argue that it is a superconductor, and likely with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-03-27 I. I. Mazin , A. V. Balatsky

We consider a setup consisting of two coupled sheets of bilayer graphene in the regime of strong spin-orbit interaction, where electrostatic confinement is used to create an array of effective quantum wires. We show that for suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-20 Katharina Laubscher , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We present a tight binding theory of the Dirac point resonances due to adsorbed atoms and molecules on an infinite 2D graphene sheet based on the standard tight binding model of the graphene p-band electronic structure and the extended…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Ihnatsenka , G. Kirczenow

We investigate imaging of moire structures in free-standing twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) carried out by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in diffraction and in-line Gabor holography modes. Electron diffraction patterns of TBG…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Tatiana Latychevskaia , Conrad Escher , Hans-Werner Fink