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The conductivity of graphite is analytically evaluated in the range of 0.1-1.5 eV, where the electron relaxation processes can be neglected, and the low energy excitations at the "Dirac" points are most essential. The value of conductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 L. A. Falkovsky

We investigate the photoconductivity of graphene within the relaxation time approximation. In presence of the inter-band transitions induced by the linearly polarized light the photoconductivity turns out to be highly anisotropic due to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-18 Maxim Trushin , John Schliemann

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

We investigate the reflectionlessness and invisibility properties in the transverse electric (TE) mode solution of a linear homogeneous optical system which comprises the $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric structures covered by graphene sheets. We…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-11 Mustafa Sarisaman , Murat Tas

Two dimensional optical materials, such as graphene can be characterized by a surface conductivity. So far, the transformation optics schemes have focused on three dimensional properties such as permittivity $\epsilon$ and permeability…

Optics · Physics 2014-12-16 Anshuman Kumar , Kin Hung Fung , M. T. Homer Reid , Nicholas Fang

In this work, we present a theoretical study of the dispersion of linearly polarized light between two dielectric media separated by an anisotropic two-dimensional (2D) material under oblique incidence. Assuming that the 2D material is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-03 Maurice Oliva-Leyva , Gerardo Gonzalez de la Cruz

An efficient computational methodology is used to explore charge transport properties in chemically-modified (and randomly disordered) graphene-based materials. The Hamiltonians of various complex forms of graphene are constructed using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-16 Nicolas Leconte , Aurélien Lherbier , François Varchon , Pablo Ordejon , Stephan Roche , Jean-Christophe Charlier

Graphene, a 2-dimensional monolayer form of sp2 hybridizated carbon atoms, is attracting increasing attention due to its unique and superior physicochemical properties. Covalently functionalized graphene layers, with their modifiable…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-11 Karolina Z. Milowska , Jacek A. Majewski

We present experimental results on the optical absorption spectra of epitaxial graphene from the visible to the terahertz (THz) frequency range. In the THz range, the absorption is dominated by intraband processes with a frequency…

The electronic properties of graphene under any arbitrary uniaxial strain field are obtained by an exact mapping of the corresponding tight-binding Hamiltonian into an effective one-dimensional modulated chain. For a periodic modulation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Gerardo G. Naumis , Pedro Roman-Taboada

We study the Brownian motion (BM) of optically trapped graphene flakes. These orient orthogonal to the light polarization, due to the optical constants anisotropy. We explain the flake dynamics, measure force and torque constants and derive…

We demonstrate greatly enhanced light absorption by monolayer graphene over a broad spectral range, from visible to near infrared, based on the attenuated total reflection. In the experiment, graphene is sandwiched between two dielectric…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-01 Wangshi Zhao , Kaifeng Shi , Zhaolin Lu

We investigate the effect of strain and isotopic disorder on thermal transport in suspended graphene by equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. We show that the thermal conductivity of unstrained graphene, calculated from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-08 Luiz Felipe C. Pereira , Davide Donadio

We derive the polarization tensor of graphene at nonzero temperature in (2+1)-dimensional space-time. The obtained tensor coincides with the previously known one at all Matsubara frequencies, but, in contrast to it, admits analytic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 M. Bordag , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , V. M. Petrov

The richness of optical and electronic properties of graphene attracts enormous interest. Graphene has high mobility and optical transparency, in addition to flexibility, robustness and environmental stability. So far, the main focus has…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 F. Bonaccorso , Z. Sun , T. Hasan , A. C. Ferrari

We propose an extensive report on the simulation of electronic transport in 2D graphene in presence of structural defects. Amongst the large variety of such defects in sp$^2$ carbon-based materials, we focus on the Stone-Wales defect and on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-03 Aurelien Lherbier , Simon M. -M. Dubois , Xavier Declerck , Yann-Michel Niquet , Stephan Roche , Jean-Christophe Charlier

The complete theory of electrical conductivity of graphene at arbitrary temperature is developed with taken into account mass-gap parameter and chemical potential. Both the in-plane and out-of-plane conductivities of graphene are expressed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-25 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , V. M. Petrov

The problem of electrostatic screening of a charged line by undoped or weakly doped graphene is treated beyond the linear-response theory. The induced electron density is found to be approximately doping independent, n(x)~(log x)^2/x^2, at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Bor-Yuan Jiang , Michael M. Fogler

In this paper, we study a theoretical method to calculate the conductance across a square barrier potential in monolayer graphene. We have obtained an analytical expression for the transmission coefficient across a potential barrier for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-26 C. H. Fuentevilla , J. D. Lejarreta , C. Cobaleda , E. Diez

We investigate the ballistic electron transport in a monolayer graphene with configurational averaged impurities, located between two clean graphene leads. It is shown that the electron transmission are strongly dependent on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-28 Juan Sebastian Ardenghi , Pablo Bechthold , Estela Gonzalez , Paula Jasen , Alfredo Juan