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Motivated by the experimentally observed high mobility of gold atoms on graphene and their tendency to form nanometer-sized clusters, we present a density functional theory study of the ground state structures of small gold clusters on…
We examine the aggregation behavior of AuNPs of different sizes on graphene as function of temperature using molecular dynamic simulations with Reax Force Field (ReaxFF). In addition, the consequences of such aggregation on the morphology…
Graphene decorated with 5d transitional metal atoms is predicted to exhibit many intriguing properties; for example iridium adatoms are proposed to induce a substantial topological gap in graphene. We extensively investigated the…
Graphene is an attractive material for microelectronics applications, given such favourable electrical characteristics as high mobility, high operating frequency, and good stability. If graphene is to be implemented in electronic devices on…
Low energy alkali ion scattering is used to investigate the deposition of Au onto a single layer of graphene grown onto Ni(111) by chemical vapor deposition. The yield of 3.0 keV Na$^+$ singly scattered from Au as a function of coverage…
Graphene with high carrier mobility \mu\ is required both for graphene-based electronic devices and for the investigation of the fundamental properties of graphene's Dirac fermions. It is largely accepted that the mobility-limiting factor…
In graphene devices with a varying degree of disorders as characterized by their carrier mobility and minimum conductivity, we have studied the thermoelectric power along with the electrical conductivity over a wide range of temperatures.…
The effects of Au grains on graphene conduction and doping are investigated in this report. To obtain a clean Au-graphene contact, Au grains are deposited over graphene at elevated temperature and in high vacuum, before any chemical…
Graphene devices require electric contacts with metals, particularly with gold. Scanning tunneling spectroscopy studies of electron local density of states performed on mono-, bi- and tri- graphene layer deposited on metallic conductive…
It is shown that clustering of charged impurities on graphene can suppress their contribution to the resistivity by a large factor of about the number of impurities per cluster, while leaving the density dependence unchanged. If the cluster…
In an ideal graphene sheet charge carriers behave as two-dimensional (2D) Dirac fermions governed by the quantum mechanics of massless relativistic particles. This has been confirmed by the discovery of a half-integer quantum Hall effect in…
Gold nanoclusters are grown by 1.8 MeV Au^\sup{2+} implantation on c-Al\sub{2}O\sub{3}(0001)substrate and subsequent air annealing at temperatures 1273K. Post-annealed samples show plasmon resonance in the optical (561-579 nm) region for…
Magnetic and transport properties of Ge(1-x-y)Mn(x)Eu(y)Te crystals with chemical compositions 0.041 < x < 0.092 and 0.010 < y < 0.043 are studied. Ferromagnetic order is observed at 150 < T < 160 K. Aggregation of magnetic ions into…
We investigate the effects of charged impurity distributions and carrier-carrier interactions on electronic transport in graphene on SiO$_2$ by employing a self-consistent coupled simulation of carrier transport and electrodynamics. We show…
Graphene's exceptional mechanical properties are crucial for its integration into advanced technological applications. However, real-world synthesis and functionalization processes introduce structural modifications that can compromise its…
We predict the existence of an intriguing "disorder by order" phenomenon in graphene transport where higher quality (and thus more ordered) samples, while having higher mobility at high carrier density, will manifest more strongly…
We consider finite ribbons of graphene with armchair orientation of their edges to study in detail impurity effects on specific Dirac-like modes. In the framework of Anderson hybrid model of impurity perturbation, a possibility for Mott…
Physical mechanisms of structural transformations in deposited metallic clusters exposed to an electron beam of a transmission electron microscope (TEM) are studied theoretically and computationally. Recent TEM experiments with…
Effects of disorder on the electronic transport properties of graphene are strongly affected by the Dirac nature of the charge carriers in graphene. This is particularly pronounced near the Dirac point, where relativistic charge carriers…
We report a study of disorder effects on epitaxial graphene in the vicinity of the Dirac point by magneto-transport. Hall effect measurements show that the carrier density increases quadratically with temperature, in good agreement with…