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The experimental availability of ultra-high-mobility samples of graphene opens the possibility to realize and study experimentally the "hydrodynamic" regime of the electron liquid. In this regime the rate of electron-electron collisions is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Principi , Giovanni Vignale

In this paper we systemically study the optical conductivity and density of states of disorded graphene beyond the Dirac cone approximation. The optical conductivity of graphene is computed by using the Kubo formula, within the framework of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-08 Shengjun Yuan , Rafael Roldán , Hans De Raedt , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

A system of generalized kinetic equations for the distribution functions of two-dimensional Dirac fermions scattered by impurities is derived in the Born approximation with respect to short-range impurity potential. It is proven that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-14 M. Auslender , M. I. Katsnelson

We calculate the temperature dependent conductivity of graphene in the presence of randomly distributed Coulomb impurity charges arising from the temperature dependent screening of the Coulomb disorder without any phonons. The purely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-22 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

The density of states (DOS) of graphene underneath a metal is estimated through a quantum capacitance measurement of the metal/graphene/SiO2/n+-Si contact structure fabricated by a resist-free metal deposition process. Graphene underneath…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-07-22 Ryota Ifuku , Kosuke Nagashio , Tomonori Nishimura , Akira Toriumi

We study electron transport properties of a monoatomic graphite layer (graphene) with different types of disorder. We show that the transport properties of the system depend strongly on the character of disorder. Away from half filling, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

We will present brief overview on the electronic and transport properties of graphene nanoribbons focusing on the effect of edge shapes and impurity scattering. The low-energy electronic states of graphene have two non-equivalent massless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Yositake Takane , Masayuki Yamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

We studied theoretically the effect of a low concentration of adsorbed polar molecules on the optical conductivity of graphene, within the Kubo linear response approximation. Our analysis is based on a continuum model approximation that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Horacio Falomir , Marcelo Loewe , Enrique Muñoz

The chapter combines analytical (statistical-thermodynamic and kinetic) with numerical (Kubo-Greenwood-formalism-based) approaches used to ascertain an influence of the configurations of point (impurities, vacancies) and line (grain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-04 T. M. Radchenko , V. A. Tatarenko , I. Yu. Sagalianov , Yu. I. Prylutskyy

We describe electrical transport in ideal single-layer graphene at zero applied bias. There is a crossover from collisionless transport at frequencies larger than k_B T/hbar (T is the temperature) to collision-dominated transport at lower…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-14 Lars Fritz , Joerg Schmalian , Markus Mueller , Subir Sachdev

We present a detailed numerical study of the electronic properties of single-layer graphene with resonant ("hydrogen") impurities and vacancies within a framework of noninteracting tight-binding model on a honeycomb lattice. The algorithms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-29 Shengjun Yuan , Hans De Raedt , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-25 M. I. Katsnelson , F. Guinea , A. K. Geim

Local electrical imaging using microwave impedance microscope is performed on graphene in different modalities, yielding a rich hierarchy of the local conductivity. The low-conductivity graphite oxide and its derivatives show significant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Worasom Kundhikanjana , Keji Lai , Hailiang Wang , Hongjie Dai , Michael A. Kelly , Zhi-xun Shen

The derivation for the transport coefficients of an electron system in the presence of temperature gradient and the electric and magnetic fields are presented. The Nernst conductivity and the transverse thermoelectric power of the Dirac…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-20 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

The size-dependent electrical resistivity of single-layer graphene ribbons has been studied experimentally for ribbon widths from 16 nm to 320 nm. The experimental findings are that the resistivity follows a more dramatic trend than that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-24 Zhuocong Xiao , Colm Durkan

We study the infrared conductivity of graphene at finite chemical potential and temperature taking into account the effect of phonons and disorder due to charged impurities and unitary scatterers. The screening of the long-range Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-16 N. M. R. Peres , T. Stauber , A. H. Castro Neto

The spectrum of massless Dirac electrons on the side surface of a three-dimensional weak topological insulator is significantly affected by whether the number of unit atomic layers constituting the sample is even or odd; it has a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yositake Takane

The conductance of metallic graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with single defects and weak disorder at their edges is investigated in a tight-binding model. We find that a single edge defect will induce quasi-localized states and consequently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-07 T. C. Li , Shao-Ping Lu

The reflectance of graphene is investigated in the framework of the Dirac model with account of its realistic properties, such as nonzero chemical potential and band gap, at any temperature. For this purpose, the exact reflection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , V. M. Petrov

Making devices with graphene necessarily involves making contacts with metals. We use density functional theory to study how graphene is doped by adsorption on metal substrates and find that weak bonding on Al, Ag, Cu, Au and Pt, while…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Giovannetti , P. A. Khomyakov , G. Brocks , V. M. Karpan , J. van den Brink , P. J. Kelly