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Graphene is a monoatomic layer of graphite with Carbon atoms arranged in a two dimensional honeycomb lattice configuration. It has been known for more than sixty years that the electronic structure of graphene can be modelled by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-09 Jiannis K. Pachos

We determine the structure of band and gaps in graphene encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride and subjected to magnetic field of Abrikosov lattice of vortices in the underlying superconducting film. The spectrum features one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Xi Chen , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

In the recent years many researches were performed about graphene. Graphene is always considered a half metal or a zero gap semiconductor. In the last year new experiments were done about graphene on boron nitride and they obtained an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Salvatore Croce

Theoretical progress in graphene physics has largely relied on the application of a simple nearest-neighbor tight-binding model capable of predicting many of the electronic properties of this material. However, important features that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Z. M. Abd El-Fattah , M. A. Kher-Elden , I. Piquero-Zulaica , F. J. Garcia de Abajo , J. E. Ortega

The recent Quantum Hall experiments in graphene have confirmed the theoretically well-understood picture of the quantum Hall (QH) conductance in fermion systems with continuum Dirac spectrum. In this paper we take into account the lattice,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Andrei Bernevig , Taylor L. Hughes , Han-Dong Chen , Congjun Wu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Interactions among electrons can give rise to striking collective phenomena when the kinetic energy of charge carriers is suppressed. One example is the fractional quantum Hall effect, in which correlations between electrons moving in two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 Benjamin E. Feldman , Benjamin Krauss , Jurgen H. Smet , Amir Yacoby

Graphene enables precise carrier-density control via gating, making it an ideal platform for studying electronic interactions. However, sample inhomogeneities often limit access to the low-density regimes where these interactions dominate.…

This paper reviews the theoretical work undertaken using density functional theory (DFT) to explore graphene's interactions with its surroundings. We look at the impact of substrates, gate dielectrics and edge effects on the properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-31 Priyamvada Jadaun , Bhagawan R. Sahu , Leonard F. Register , Sanjay K. Banerjee

Graphene [1] and its bilayer have generated tremendous excitement in the physics community due to their unique electronic properties [2]. The intrinsic physics of these materials, however, is partially masked by disorder, which can arise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-10 Benjamin E. Feldman , Jens Martin , Amir Yacoby

Double layer graphene is a gapless semiconductor which develops a finite gap when the layers are placed at different electrostatic potentials. We study, within the tight-biding approximation, the electronic properties of the gaped graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-26 Eduardo V. Castro , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos

Silicene, a monolayer of silicon atoms tightly packed into a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice, is the challenging hypothetical reflection in the silicon realm of graphene, a one-atom thick graphite sheet, presently the hottest material in…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-11-18 A. Kara , C. Leandri , M. E. Davila , P. de Padova , B. Ealet , H. Oughaddou , B. Aufray , G. Le Lay

The electronic thermal conductivity of graphene and 2D Dirac materials is of fundamental interest and can play an important role in the performance of nano-scale devices. We report the electronic thermal conductivity, $K_{e}$, in suspended…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 S. Yiğen , V. Tayari , J. O. Island , J. M. Porter , A. R. Champagne

We show that the physics of deformation in $\alpha$-, $\beta$-, and $6,6,12$-graphyne is, despite their significantly more complex lattice structures, remarkably close to that of graphene, with inhomogeneously strained graphyne described at…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-28 R. Gupta , S. Maisel , F. Rost , D. Weckbecker , M. Fleischmann , H. Soni , S. Sharma , A. Görling , S. Shallcross

Isolated, atomically thin conducting membranes of graphite, called graphene, have recently been the subject of intense research with the hope that practical applications in fields ranging from electronics to energy science will emerge.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 S. Garaj , W. Hubbard , A. Reina , J. Kong , D. Branton , J. A. Golovchenko

Graphene two-dimensional nature combined with today lithography allows to achieve nanoelectronics devices smaller than the Dirac electrons wavelength. Here we show that in these graphene subwavelength nanodevices the electronic quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-08 Pierre Darancet , Valerio Olevano , Didier Mayou

Graphene is a sturdy and chemically inert material exhibiting an exposed two-dimensional electron gas of high mobility. These combined properties enable the design of graphene composites either based on covalent or non- covalent coupling of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Adrien Allain , Zheng Han , Vincent Bouchiat

This review explores the synthesis, characterization, and potential applications of graphene, a two-dimensional material with exceptional properties. Graphene's versatility in energy and electronics applications is highlighted, with its…

Graphene is considered one of the most promising materials for future electronic. However, in its pristine form graphene is a gapless material, which imposes limitations to its use in some electronic applications. In order to solve this…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-06-27 G. Brunetto , P. A. S. Autreto , L. D. Machado , B. I. Santos , R. P. B. dos Santos , D. S. Galvão

We study the recently observed graphene fractional quantum Hall state at a filling factor $\nu_G=1/3$ using a four-component trial wave function and exact diagonalization calculations. Although it is adiabatically connected to a 1/3…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-22 Z. Papic , M. O. Goerbig , N. Regnault

Two-dimensional quantum materials offer a robust platform for investigating the emergence of symmetry-broken ordered phases owing to the high tuneability of their electronic properties. For instance, the ability to create new electronic…