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We calculate thermopower of clean and impure bilayer graphene systems. Opening a band gap through the application of an external electric field is shown to greatly enhance the thermopower of bilayer graphene, which is more than four times…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Lei Hao , T. K. Lee

Following recently published study of Prezhdo and coworkers (JPC Letters, 2014, 5, 4129-4133), we report a systematic investigation of how monovalent and divalent ions influence valence electronic structure of graphene. Pure density…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-10 Guilherme Colherinhas , Eudes Eterno Fileti , Vitaly V. Chaban

Optical properties of graphene are explored by using the generalized tight-binding model. The main features of spectral structures, the form, frequency, number and intensity, are greatly enriched by the complex relationship among the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Chiun-Yan Lin , Thi-Nga Do , Yao-Kung Huang , Ming-Fa Lin

For a sample of an arbitrary shape, the dependence of its conductance on the longitudinal and Hall conductivity is identical to that of a rectangle. We use analytic results for a conducting rectangle, combined with the semicircle model for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-12 Dmitry A. Abanin , Leonid S. Levitov

Graphene and related two-dimensional materials are promising candidates for atomically thin, flexible, and transparent optoelectronics. In particular, the strong light-matter interaction in graphene has allowed for the development of…

Graphene is considered to be a promising candidate for future nano-electronics due to its exceptional electronic properties. Unfortunately, the graphene field-effect-transistors (FETs) cannot be turned off effectively due to the absence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-11 Fengnian Xia , Damon B. Farmer , Yu-ming Lin , Phaedon Avouris

In this paper we propose a mechanism for the induction of energy gaps in the spectrum of graphene and its bilayer, when both these materials are covered with water and ammonia molecules. The energy gaps obtained are within the range 20-30…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-08-28 R. M. Ribeiro , N. M. R. Peres , J. Coutinho , P. R. Briddon

We have studied electronic conductivity and shot noise of bilayer graphene (BLG) sheets at high bias voltages and low bath temperature $T_0=4.2$ K. As a function of bias, we find initially an increase of the differential conductivity, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-07 A. Fay , R. Danneau , J. K. Viljas , F. Wu , M. Y. Tomi , J. Wengler , M. Wiesner , P. J. Hakonen

We calculate the static polarizability of multilayer graphene and study the effect of stacking arrangement, carrier density, and onsite energy difference on graphene screening properties. At low densities, the energy spectrum of multilayer…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-14 Hongki Min , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

The unique property of bilayer graphene to show a band gap tunable by external electrical fields enables a variety of different device concepts with novel functionalities for electronic, optoelectronic and sensor applications. So far the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-21 Bartholomaeus N. Szafranek , Daniel Schall , Martin Otto , Daniel Neumaier , Heinrich Kurz

The conductance through single-layer graphene (SLG) and AA/AB-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) junctions is obtained by taking into account band gap and bias voltage terms. First, we consider gapped SLG, while in between, they are connected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Nadia Benlakhouy , Ahmed Jellal , El Houssine Atmani

It has been recently demonstrated experimentally that graphene, or single-layer carbon, is a gapless semiconductor with massless Dirac energy spectrum. A finite conductivity per channel of order of $e^{2}/h$ in the limit of zero temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Katsnelson

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene exhibits quasi-flat low-energy bands with Van Hove singularities close to the Fermi level. These singularities play an important role in the exotic phenomena observed in this material, such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Aleksander Sanjuan Ciepielewski , Jakub Tworzydło , Timo Hyart , Alexander Lau

The Raman shift, broadening, and relative Raman intensities of bilayer graphene are computed as functions of the electron concentration. We include dynamic effects for the phonon frequencies and we consider the gap induced in the band…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-11 Paola Gava , Michele Lazzeri , A. Marco Saitta , Francesco Mauri

We demonstrate that the electronic gap of a graphene bilayer can be controlled externally by applying a gate bias. From the magneto-transport data (Shubnikov-de Haas measurements of the cyclotron mass), and using a tight binding model, we…

A theory of an optical two-photon breather in a graphene monolayer (or graphene-like two-dimensional material) is constructed. The system of the material equations for two-photon transitions and the wave equation for transverse magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-02 G. T. Adamashvili

We study the optical conductivity of a doped graphene when a sublattice symmetry breaking is occurred in the presence of the electron-phonon interaction. Our study is based on the Kubo formula that is established upon the retarded…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Kh. Jahanbani , Reza Asgari

The reflectivity of low energy electrons from graphene on copper substrates is studied both experimentally and theoretically. Well-known oscillations in the reflectivity of electrons with energies 0 - 8 eV above the vacuum level are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 N. Srivastava , Qin Gao , M. Widom , R. M. Feenstra , Shu Nie , K. F. McCarty , I. V. Vlassiouk

We present a simple analytical approach to study anharmonic effects in single layer, bilayer, and multilayer graphene. The coupling between in plane and out of plane modes leads to negative Gr\"uneisen coefficients and negative thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 P. L. de Andres , F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson

Frequency dependent conductivity of Coulomb interacting massless Dirac fermions coupled to random scalar and random vector potentials is found as a function of frequency in the regime controlled by a line of fixed points. Such model…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-10-22 Oskar Vafek