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We obtain the wave function of field emission from graphene in magnetic field. The emission image reveals structure of the Landau levels and depends on the phase difference between two sub-lattices. The emission pattern is sensitive to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jingkun Chen , Zhibing Li , Weiliang Wang

We present a simple micromanipulation technique to transfer suspended graphene flakes onto any substrate and to assemble them with small localized gates into mechanical resonators. The mechanical motion of the graphene is detected using an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-06 Xuefeng Song , Mika Oksanen , Mika A. Sillanpää , H. G. Craighead , J. M. Parpia , Pertti J. Hakonen

We report the first measurement of 1/f type noise associated with electronic spin transport, using single layer graphene as a prototypical material with a large and tunable Hooge parameter. We identify the presence of two contributions to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-09 S. Omar , M. H. D. Guimarães , A. Kaverzin , B. J. van Wees , I. J. Vera-Marun

Optical Faraday rotation is one of the most direct and practically important manifestations of magnetically broken time-reversal symmetry. The rotation angle is proportional to the distance traveled by the light, and up to now sizeable…

The mechanical behaviour of graphene flakes under both tension and compression is examined using a cantilever-beam arrangement. Two different sets of samples were employed involving flakes just supported on a plastic bar but also embedded…

Using ab initio density functional theory and quantum transport calculations based on nonequilibrium Green's function formalism we study structural, electronic, and transport properties of hydrogen-terminated short graphene nanoribbons…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-20 Hasan Sahin , Ramazan Tugrul Senger

Graphene plasmons are of remarkable features that make graphene plasmon elements promising for applications to integrated photonic devices. The fabrication of graphene plasmon components and control over plasmon propagating are of…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-15 Weiwei Luo , Wei Cai , Wei Wu , Yinxiao Xiang , Mengxin Ren , Xinzheng Zhang , Jingjun Xu

We demonstrate that it is possible to mechanically exfoliate graphene under ultra high vacuum conditions on the atomically well defined surface of single crystalline silicon. The flakes are several hundred nanometers in lateral size and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 O. Ochedowski , G. Begall , N. Scheuschner , M. El Kharrazi , J. Maultzsch , M. Schleberger

Graphene is considered to be plasmon active only up to the infrared based on combined tight binding model and random phase approximation calculations. Here we show that the optical properties of graphene as measured by ellipsometry and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-28 Philipp Lange , Günter Kewes , Nikolai Severin , Oliver Benson , Jürgen P. Rabe

Owing to their unprecedented electronic properties, graphene and two-dimensional (2D) crystals have brought fresh opportunities for advances in planar spintronic devices. Graphene is an ideal medium for spin transport while also being an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 I. G. Serrano , J. Panda , Fernand Denoel , Örjan Vallin , Dibya Phuyal , Olof Karis , M. Venkata Kamalakar

Following the discovery of graphene, keen attentions have been paid in comprehending the noticeably superior electromagnetic, optical and absorptive properties of few layer graphene (FLG) with rotational-stacking-faults. With achieving…

A beam of linearly polarized light transmitted through magnetically biased graphene can have its axis of polarization rotated by several degrees after passing the graphene sheet. This large Faraday effect is due to the action of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-06 Jürgen Schiefele , Luis Martin-Moreno , Francisco Guinea

The issue of whether local magnetic moments can be formed by introducing adatoms into graphene is of intense research interest because it opens the window to fundamental studies of magnetism in graphene, as well as of its potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-12 X. Hong , K. Zou , B. Wang , S. -H. Cheng , J. Zhu

Organic and carbon-based materials are attractive for spintronics because their small spin-orbit coupling and low hyperfine interaction is expected to give rise to large spin-relaxation times. However, the corresponding spin-relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. Banerjee , W. G. van der Wiel , R. Jansen

Because of its fascinating electronic properties, graphene is expected to produce breakthroughs in many areas of nanoelectronics. For spintronics, its key advantage is the expected long spin lifetime, combined with its large electron…

In the aqueous-organic (containing dimethylformamide) dispersion of graphene oxide flakes with deposited thereon Ag-particles, under the action of light in visible range, apparently for the first time, the effect of sediment flotation was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-04 D. V. Vlasov , L. A. Apresyan , T. V. Vlasova

Magneto-Raman scattering experiments from the surface of graphite reveal novel features associated to purely electronic excitations which are observed in addition to phonon-mediated resonances. Graphene-like and graphite domains are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Faugeras , M. Amado , P. Kossacki , M. Orlita , M. Kühne , A. A. L. Nicolet , Yu. I. Latyshev , M. Potemski

We propose and demonstrate first steps towards schemes where the librational mode of levitating ferromagnets is strongly coupled to the electronic spin of Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. Experimentally, we levitate ferromagnets in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 P. Huillery , T. Delord , L. Nicolas , M. Van Den Bossche , M. Perdriat , G. Hétet

Graphene plasmons have recently attracted a great deal of attention because of their tunability, long lifetime, and high degree of field confinement in the vertical direction. Nearby metal gates have been shown to modify the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Alessandro Principi , Erik van Loon , Marco Polini , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

The effect of strain in graphene is usually modeled by a pseudo-magnetic vector potential which is, however, derived in the limit of small strain. In realistic cases deviations are expected in view of graphene's very high strain tolerance,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-27 D. Moldovan , M. Ramezani Masir , F. M. Peeters