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We have performed a comprehensive computational study of the vibrational properties and electron-phonon couplings in the three known polymorphs of pentacene. Vibrational patterns and electron-phonon interactions were calculated at several…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Luca Gnoli , Elisabetta Venuti , Matteo Masino , Patrizio Graziosi

We investigate the low-field phonon-limited mobility in armchair graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) using full-band electron and phonon dispersion relations. We show that lateral confinement suppresses the intrinsic mobility of GNRs to values…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Alessandro Betti , Gianluca Fiori , Giuseppe Iannaccone

The electronic transport properties of monolayer graphene have been studied before and after the deposition of a dilute coating of tungsten adatoms on the surface. For coverages up to 2.5\% of a monolayer, we find tungsten adatoms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Jamie A. Elias , Erik A. Henriksen

Graphene exhibits extraordinary electronic and mechanical properties, and extremely high thermal conductivity. Being a very stable atomically thick membrane that can be suspended between two leads, graphene provides a perfect test platform…

We investigate the semiclassical electronic transport properties of the bilayer silicene-like system in the presence of charged impurity. The trigonal warping due to the interlayer hopping, and its effect to the band structure of bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-18 Chen-Huan Wu

The temperature dependence of the mobility in suspended graphene samples is investigated. In clean samples, flexural phonons become the leading scattering mechanism at temperature $T \gtrsim 10\,\,$K, and the resistivity increases…

We investigate transport in graphene supported on various dielectrics (SiO2, BN, Al2O3, HfO2) through a hydrodynamic model which includes self-heating and thermal coupling to the substrate, scattering with ionized impurities, graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-21 Andrey Y. Serov , Zhun-Yong Ong , Massimo V. Fischetti , Eric Pop

Effects of resonant acoustic phonon scattering on magnetoresistivity are examined in two-dimensional electron systems at low temperatures by using a balance-equation magnetotransport scheme direct controlled by the current. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-13 X. L. Lei

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have large intrinsic carrier mobility due to weak acoustic phonon scattering. However, unlike two-dimensional metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs), substrate surface polar phonon (SPP)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Vasili Perebeinos , Slava Rotkin , Alexey G. Petrov , Phaedon Avouris

We present a theoretical study of electron-phonon scattering effects in thin films made of a strong topological insulator. Phonons are modelled by isotropic elastic continuum theory with stress-free boundary conditions, and the interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-26 Sébastien Giraud , Arijit Kundu , Reinhold Egger

The combined effect of bulk and interface electron-phonon couplings on the transport properties is investigated in a model for organic semiconductors gated with polarizable dielectrics. While the bulk electron-phonon interaction affects the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-30 C. A. Perroni , V. Cataudella

We present a first-principles study of the temperature- and density-dependent intrinsic electrical resistivity of graphene. We use density-functional theory and density-functional perturbation theory together with very accurate Wannier…

We review our recent work on the physical mechanisms limiting the mobility of graphene on SiO2. We have used intentional addition of charged scattering impurities and systematic variation of the dielectric environment to differentiate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-06-10 J. -H. Chen , C. Jang , M. Ishigami , S. Xiao , E. D. Williams , M. S. Fuhrer

We report on electric-field and temperature dependent transport measurements in exfoliated thin crystals of Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$ topological insulator. At low temperatures ($< 50$ K) and when the chemical potential lies inside the bulk gap, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. V. Costache , I. Neumann , J. F. Sierra , V. Marinova , M. M. Gospodinov , S. Roche , S. O. Valenzuela

We investigate the many-body properties of graphene on top of a piezoelectric substrate, focusing on the interaction between the graphene electrons and the piezoelectric acoustic phonons. We calculate the electron and phonon self-energies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 D. G. González , I. Zapata , J. Schiefele , F. Sols , F. Guinea

The performance of silicon nano-devices at cryogenic temperatures is critical for quantum qubit control circuits and space applications. Using multi-valley Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate electron transport in Si~(110) systems. At…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Hsin-Wen Huang , Xi-Jun Fang , Edward Chen , Yuh-Renn Wu

We explore polaronic quantum transport in three-dimensional models of disordered organic crystals with strong coupling between electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom. By studying the polaron dynamics in a static disorder environment,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 Frank Ortmann , Stephan Roche

The low-temperature thermal conductivity in polycrystalline graphene is theoretically studied. The contributions from three branches of acoustic phonons are calculated by taking into account scattering on sample borders, point defects and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 D. V. Kolesnikov , V. A. Osipov

Two-dimensional (2D) materials represented by graphene stand out in future electrical industry and have been widely studied. As a commonly existing factor in electronic devices, the electric field has been extensively utilized to modulate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 E Zhou , Donghai Wei , Jing Wu , Guangzhao Qin , Ming Hu

Polar phonons can induce electric fields in an adjacent layer, whether non-polar or polar, producing remote phonon scattering of electrons. Treatment of remote phonon scattering has been based on the dielectric continuum model which takes…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-15 A. Dyson , B. K. Ridley