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Using first-principles methods, we show that an applied perpendicular electric field $E$ breaks the inversion symmetry of AB-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG), thereby slightly mixing the two in-plane high-energy optical vibrations ($E_g$ and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 R. Stein , D. Hughes , Jia-An Yan

The honeycomb lattice of graphene is a unique two-dimensional (2D) system where the quantum mechanics of electrons is equivalent to that of relativistic Dirac fermions. Novel nanometer-scale behavior in this material, including electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-29 Yuanbo Zhang , Victor W. Brar , Feng Wang , Caglar Girit , Yossi Yayon , Melissa Panlasigui , Alex Zettl , Michael F. Crommie

We probe the local inhomogeneities in the electronic properties of exfoliated graphene due to the presence of charged impurities in the SiO2 substrate using a combined scanning tunneling and electrostatic force microscope. Contact potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 Andres Castellanos-Gomez , Roel H. M. Smit , Nicolás Agraït , Gabino Rubio-Bollinger

Graphene has been considered as a promising material for opto-electronic devices, because of its tunable and wideband optical properties. In this work, we demonstrate electro-refractive phase modulation in graphene at wavelengths from 1530…

Understanding energy level alignment at organic interfaces is crucial for optimizing the performance of organic devices. Interface dipole and band bending significantly influence carrier recombination and generation mechanisms. A method of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-09 Masahiro Ohara , Taiyo Inoue , Yuya Tanaka , Hisao Ishii

We demonstrate experimentally that graphene quantum capacitance $C_{\mathrm{q}}$ can have a strong impact on transport spectroscopy through the interplay with nearby charge reservoirs. The effect is elucidated in a field-effect-gated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-30 K. Takase , S. Tanabe , S. Sasaki , H. Hibino , K. Muraki

This study examines electrostatic screening effects in graphene using tight binding calculations based on the Binding energy and Bond Charge model and a modified version of it. The results indicate that the modified BBC potential decays in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Yaorui Tan , Xiang Chen , Yunhu Zhu , Xiaowu Yang , Zhongkai Huang , Chuang Yao , Maolin Bo

We calculate the contribution of unscreened and screened scalar and vector potential electron acoustic phonon coupling to resistivity in disordered graphene through Keldysh Greens function method within the diffusive limit. We obtain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 M Obaidurrahman , S S Z Ashraf

The effect of hydrogenation on the topography and the electronic properties of graphene and graphite surfaces are studied by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. The surfaces are chemically modified using Ar/H2 plasma. Analyzing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 Andres Castellanos-Gomez , Magdalena Wojtaszek , Arramel , Nikolaos Tombros , Bart J. van Wees

The interaction between graphene and substrates provides a viable routes to enhance functionality of both materials. Depending on the nature of electronic interaction at the interface, the electron band structure of graphene is strongly…

This review provides a critical overview of current developments on nanoelectronic biochemical sensors based on graphene. Composed of a single layer of conjugated carbon atoms, graphene has outstanding high carrier mobility and low…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-14 Xiaoyan Zhang , Qiushi Jing , Shen Ao , Grégory F. Schneider , Dmitry Kireev , Zhengjun Zhang , Wangyang Fu

The direct manipulation of individual atoms in materials using scanning probe microscopy has been a seminal achievement of nanotechnology. Recent advances in imaging resolution and sample stability have made scanning transmission electron…

We present magneto-Raman spectroscopy measurements on suspended graphene to investigate the charge carrier density-dependent electron-electron interaction in the presence of Landau levels. Utilizing gate-tunable magneto-phonon resonances,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 J. Sonntag , S. Reichardt , L. Wirtz , B. Beschoten , M. I. Katsnelson , F. Libisch , C. Stampfer

The electron states in the field of a charged impurity in graphene in a magnetic field are studied numerically. It is shown that a charged impurity removes the degeneracy of Landau levels converting them into bandlike structures. As the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-27 O. O. Sobol , P. K. Pyatkovskiy , E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin

We considered a graphene nano-ribbon with a longitudinal electric field (along $x$ direction) and a transversal magnetic field (along $z$ direction), and then observe (i) the electrocaloric effect ruled by an applied magnetic field and (ii)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-03 M. S. Reis

We present a novel measurement approach which combines the electrical characterization of solution-gated field effect transistors based on epitaxial bilayer graphene on 4H-SiC (0001) with simultaneous Raman spectroscopy. By changing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 J. Binder , J. M. Urban , R. Stepniewski , W. Strupinski , A. Wysmolek

Electric field effect devices based on mesoscopic graphite are fabricated for galvanomagnetic measurements. Strong modulation of magneto-resistance and Hall resistance as a function of gate voltage is observed as sample thickness approaches…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yuanbo Zhang , Joshua P. Small , Michael E. S. Amori , Philip Kim

We explore the effects of metal contacts on the operation and scalability of 2D Graphene Field-Effect-Transistors (GFETs) using detailed numerical device simulations based on the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism self-consistently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pei Zhao , Qin Zhang , Debdeep Jena , Siyuranga O. Koswatta

The superior intrinsic properties of graphene have been a key research focus for the past few years. However, external components, such as metallic contacts, serve not only as essential probing elements, but also give rise to an effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Yanqing Wu , Vasili Perebeinos , Yu-ming Lin , Tony Low , Fengnian Xia , Phaedon Avouris

The one-loop polarization function of graphene has been calculated at zero temperature for arbitrary wavevector, frequency, chemical potential (doping), and band gap. The result is expressed in terms of elementary functions and is used to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-12-12 P. K. Pyatkovskiy