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We demonstrate that single-layer graphene in the presence of a metal gate displays a gapless collective (plasmon) mode that has a linear dispersion at long wavelengths. We calculate exactly the acoustic-plasmon group velocity at the level…

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We report on strong coupling of the charge carrier plasmon $\omega_{PL}$ in graphene with the surface optical phonon $\omega_{SO}$ of the underlying SiC(0001) substrate with low electron concentration ($n=1.2\times 10^{15}$ $cm^{-3}$) in…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-22 R. J. Koch , Th. Seyller , J. A. Schaefer

Quasi free-standing monolayer graphene can be produced by intercalating species like oxygen or hydrogen between epitaxial graphene and the substrate crystal. If the graphene is indeed decoupled from the substrate, one would expect the…

The breakdown of translational symmetry at heterointerfaces leads to the emergence of new phonon modes localized near the interface. These interface phonons play an essential role in thermal/electrical transport properties in devices…

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We address the question of how small can the quasiparticle decay rate be at low energies in undoped graphene, where kinematical constraints are known to prevent the decay into particle-hole excitations. For this purpose, we study the…

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We propose a hydrodynamic model describing steady-state and dynamic electron and hole transport properties of graphene structures which accounts for the features of the electron and hole spectra. It is intended for electron-hole plasma in…

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Recent theory has demonstrated that the value of the electron-phonon coupling strength $\lambda$ can be extracted directly from the thermal attenuation (Debye-Waller factor) of Helium atom scattering reflectivity. This theory is here…

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We present an accurate interatomic potential for graphene, constructed using the Gaussian Approximation Potential (GAP) machine learning methodology. This GAP model obtains a faithful representation of a density functional theory (DFT)…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-14 Patrick Rowe , Gábor Csányi , Dario Alfè , Angelos Michaelides

Numerical and closed-form analytic expressions for plasmon dispersion relations and rates of dissipation are first obtained at finite-temperatures for free-standing gapped graphene. These closed-system results are generalized to an open…

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Here we report on the preparation of transparent and flexible polymerized graphite oxide, which is composed of carbons with sp3-hybridized orbitals and a non-planar ring structure, and which demonstrates dispersion in its dielectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-06-01 D. W. Lee , J. W. Seo , G. R. Jelbert , L. de Los Santos V. , J. M. Cole , C. Panagopoulos , C. H. W. Barnes

We develop an ab initio method to simulate the infrared vibrational response of metallic systems in the framework of time-dependent density functional perturbation theory. By introducing a generalized frequency-dependent Born effective…

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We use first-principles density-functional calculations to determine the frequency shift of the A$'_1$-${\bf K}$ phonon (Raman D band) in monolayer graphene, as a function of the charge doping. A detailed DFT study on the electron-phonon…

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Placing graphene on uniaxial substrates may have interesting application potential for graphene-based photonic and optoelectronic devices. Here we analytically derive the dispersion relation for graphene plasmons on uniaxial substrates and…

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The effect of inclusion of the planar phonon anisotropy on thermo-electrical behavior of graphene is analyzed. Charge transport is simulated by means of Direct Simulation Monte Carlo technique coupled with numerical solution of the phonon…

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A monolayer of graphene irradiated with circularly polarized light suggests a unique platform for surface electromagnetic wave (plasmon-polariton) manipulation. In fact, the time periodicity of the Hamiltonian leads to a geometric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-19 Dmitry Yudin , Olle Eriksson , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

An infinite sheet of graphene lying above a perturbed ground plane is studied. The perturbation is a two dimensional ridge, and a bias voltage is applied between the graphene and the ground plane, resulting in a graphene nanoribbonlike…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-30 Ebrahim Forati , George W. Hanson

We investigate the electronic band structure of graphene on a series of two-dimensional magnetic transition-metal phosphorus trichalcogenide monolayers, MPX$_3$ with M={Mn,Fe,Ni,Co} and X={S,Se}, with first-principles calculations. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Klaus Zollner , Jaroslav Fabian

Position measurements at the quantum level are vital for many applications, but also challenging. Typically, methods based on optical phase shifts are used, but these methods are often weak and difficult to apply to many materials. An…

We have studied electron scattering by out-of-plane (flexural) phonons in doped suspended bilayer graphene. We have found the bilayer membrane to follow the qualitative behavior of the monolayer cousin. In the bilayer, different electronic…

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