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As mechanical structures enter the nanoscale regime, the influence of van der Waals forces increases. Graphene is attractive for nanomechanical systems because its Young's modulus and strength are both intrinsically high, but the mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Steven P. Koenig , Narasimha G. Boddeti , Martin L. Dunn , J. Scott Bunch

The peculiar nature of electron scattering in graphene is among many exciting theoretical predictions for the physical properties of this material. To investigate electron scattering properties in a graphene plane, we have created a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 B. Huard , J. A. Sulpizio , N. Stander , K. Todd , B. Yang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

The introduction of 'twist' or relative rotation between two atomically thin van der Waals (vdW) membranes gives rise to periodic Moire potential, leading to a substantial altercation of the band structure of the planar assembly. While most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Phanibhusan S Mahapatra , Bhaskar Ghawri , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Subroto Mukerjee , Arindam Ghosh

We study the influence of different kinds of gaps in a quasiparticle spectrum on longitudinal and transverse optical conductivities of bilayer graphene. An exact analytical expression for magneto-optical conductivity is derived using a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-08 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , A. B. Kuzmenko , S. G. Sharapov

A method is suggested to separately determine the surface density of positively and negatively charged impurities that limit the mobility in a graphene monolayer. The method is based on the exact result for the transport cross-section,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-05 D. S. Novikov

One of the greatest issues of nanoelectronics today is how to control the heating of the components. Graphene is a promising material in this area and it is essential to study its thermal properties. Here, the effect of heating a bilayer…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-02-13 Johan Ek Weis , Sara Costa , Otakar Frank , Martin Kalbac

The use of two truly two-dimensional gapless semiconductors, monolayer and bilayer graphene, as current-carrying components in field-effect transistors (FET) gives access to new types of nanoelectronic devices. Here, we report on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-09 H. Schmidt , T. Luedtke , P. Barthold , E. McCann , V. I. Falko , R. J. Haug

Two monolayers of graphene twisted by a small `magic' angle exhibit nearly flat bands leading to correlated electronic states and superconductivity, whose precise nature including possible broken symmetries, remain under debate. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-13 Jong Yeon Lee , Eslam Khalaf , Shang Liu , Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Philip Kim , Ashvin Vishwanath

Graphene, as a passivation layer, can be used to protect the black phosphorus from the chemical reaction with surrounding oxygen and water. However, black phosphorus and graphene heterostructures have low efficiency of heat dissipation due…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-28 Yang Chen , Yingyan Zhang , Kun Cai , Jinwu Jiang , Jin-cheng Zheng , Junhua Zhao , Ning Wei

Being used in optoelectronic devices as ultra-thin conductor-insulator junctions, detailed investigations are needed about how exactly h-BN and graphene hybridize. Here, we present a comprehensive ab initio study of hot carrier dynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-01 Sangkha Borah , Dinesh Yadav , Maxim Trushin , Fabian Pauly

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…

Using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation, we study the compressibility instability of the interacting electrons in bilayer graphene. The chemical potential and the compressibility of the electrons can be significantly altered by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-01-11 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

The potential energy surface (PES) of interlayer interaction of twisted bilayer graphene with vacancies in one of the layers is investigated via density functional theory (DFT) calculations with van der Waals corrections. These calculations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-01 Alexander S. Minkin , Irina V. Lebedeva , Andrey M. Popov , Andrey A. Knizhnik

Moir\'{e} systems such as magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene have attracted significant attention due to their ability to host correlated phenomena including superconductivity and strongly correlated insulating states. By defining the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-08 Liangtao Peng , Giovanni Vignale , Shaffique Adam

We study the gate voltage induced gap that occurs in graphene bilayers using \textit{ab initio} density functional theory. Our calculations confirm the qualitative picture suggested by phenomenological tight-binding and continuum models. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Hongki Min , B. R. Sahu , Sanjay K. Banerjee , A. H. MacDonald

Graphene has been widely studied for various applications due to its outstanding electrical and mechanical properties. However, its potential in thermoelectric applications has been limited by a low Seebeck coefficient and high thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-04 Laura Caputo , Viet-Hung Nguyen , Jean-Christophe Charlier

We calculate the electronic band structure of ABA-stacked trilayer graphene in the presence of external gates, using a self-consistent Hartree approximation to take account of screening. In the absence of a gate potential, there are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mikito Koshino , Edward McCann

Finding an effective and controllable way to create a sizable energy gap in graphene-based systems has been a challenging topic of intensive research. We propose that the hybrid of boron nitride and graphene (h-BNC) at low BN doping serves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 Chih-Piao Chuu , Wei-En Tseng , Kuan-Hung Liu , Ching-Ming Wei , Mei-Yin Chou

Graphene's structure bears on both the material's electronic properties and fundamental questions about long range order in two-dimensional crystals. We present an analytic calculation of selected area electron diffraction from multi-layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Brian Shevitski , Matthew Mecklenburg , William A. Hubbard , E. R. White , Ben Dawson , M. S. Lodge , Masa Ishigami , B. C. Regan

Correct defect quantification in graphene samples is crucial both for fundamental and applied re-search. Raman spectroscopy represents the most widely used tool to identify defects in graphene. However, despite its extreme importance the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-22 Sara D. Costa , Johan Ek Weis , Otakar Frank , Martin Kalbac