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In this article, a few-layered graphene-dielectric multilayer (metamaterial) electro-optic modulator has been proposed in the mid and far infrared range that works on electro-absorption mechanism. Graphene, both mono layer and few layer, is…

Infrared spectroscopy, especially for molecular vibrations in the fingerprint region between 600 and 1500 cm-1, is a powerful characterization method for bulk materials. However, molecular fingerprinting at the nanoscale level still remains…

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The graphene-insulator-semiconductor-structured electron source has garnered significant attention due to its high electron emission efficiency and highly monochromatic electron emission. Graphene, with its c-axis orientation and…

Among their amazing properties, graphene and related low-dimensional materials show quantized charge-density fluctuations--known as plasmons--when exposed to photons or electrons of suitable energies. Graphene nanoribbons offer an enhanced…

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New losses mechanism in monolayer graphene nanoresonators caused by dissipative intravalley currents stipulated by the synthetic electric fields is considered. These fields are generated by time-dependent gauge fields arising in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-23 Natalie E. Firsova , Yuriy A. Firsov

We report an unambiguous phonon resonance effect originating from germanium nanoparticles embedded in silicon matrix. Our approach features the combination of phonon wave-packet method with atomistic dynamics and finite element method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-05 Lei Feng , Takuma Shiga , Haoxue Han , Shenghong Ju , Yuriy A. Kosevich , Junichiro Shiomi

Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations are used to study the shear thinning behavior of immiscible symmetric polymer blends. The phase separated polymers are subjected to a simple shear flow imposed by moving a wall parallel to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Sandra Barsky , Mark O. Robbins

An active plasmonic switch based on single- and few-layer doped graphene ribbon array operating in the mid-infrared spectrum is investigated with theoretical and numerical calculations. It is shown that significant resonance wavelength…

Optics · Physics 2013-08-30 Hong-Son Chu , Choon How Gan

Misfit strain is inevitable in various heterostructures like the graphene/MoS 2 van der Waals heterostructure. Although the misfit strain effect on electronic and other physical properties have been well studied, it is still unclear how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Ji-Dong He , Jin-Wu Jiang

We describe the results of atomic-level stick-slip friction measurements performed on chemically-modified graphite, using atomic force microscopy (AFM). Through detailed molecular dynamics simulations, coarse-grained simulations, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-23 Alex Smolyanitsky , Shuze Zhu , Zhao Deng , Teng Li , Rachel J. Cannara

Creating nanopores in graphene is a powerful tool for engineering its properties. Nanopores in graphene tune their electrical, optical, magnetic, and mechanical properties. However, controlling nanopores formation at the nanoscale level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Sidi Abdelmajid Ait Abdelkader , Ismail Benabdallah , Mohammed Amlieh , Abdelouahad El Fatimy

Graphene has good mechanical properties including large Young's modulus, making it ideal for many resonant sensing applications. Nonetheless, the development of graphene based sensors has been limited due to difficulties in fabrication,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Swapnil More , Akshay Naik

We investigate the influence of low-dimensionality and disorder in phonon transport in ultra-narrow armchair graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) using non-equilibrium Greens function (NEGF) simulation techniques. We specifically focus on how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 Hossein Karamitaheri , Mahdi Pourfath , Hans Kosina , Neophytos Neophytou

Atomically thin two dimensional (2D) layered materials have emerged as a new class of material for nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) due to their extraordinary mechanical properties and ultralow mass density. Among them, graphene has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 C. Samanta , P. R. Yasasvi Gangavarapu , A. K. Naik

Contact-based vibrations play a critical role in the dynamics of granular materials. Significant insights into vibrational granular dynamics have been obtained with reduced-dimensional systems containing macroscale particles. We study…

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In previous studies, it proved difficult to realize periodic graphene ripples with wavelengths of few nanometers. Here we show that one-dimensional periodic graphene ripples with wavelengths from 2 nm to tens of nanometers can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-25 Ke-Ke Bai , Yu Zhou , Hong Zheng , Lan Meng , Hailin Peng , Zhongfan Liu , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

Microphones exploit the motion of suspended membranes to detect sound waves. Since the microphone performance can be improved by reducing the thickness and mass of its sensing membrane, graphene-based microphones are expected to outperform…

In this Letter, using quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), we experimentally determined the mass density of graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition method. We developed a transfer printing technique to integrate large area single-layer…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-16 Nurbek Kakenov , Osman Balci , Omer Salihoglu , Seung Hyun Hur , Sinan Balci , Coskun Kocabas

Studies of the mechanical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes are hindered by the availability only of ensembles of tubes with a range of diameters. Tunable Raman excitation spectroscopy picks out identifiable tubes. Under high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. J. Ghandour , I. F. Crowe , J. E. Proctor , Y. W. Sun , M. P. Halsall , I. Hernandez , A. Sapelkin , D. J. Dunstan

We investigate the effect of shear and strain in graphene bilayers, under conditions where the distortion of the lattice gives rise to a smooth one-dimensional modulation in the stacking sequence of the bilayer. We show that strain and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 J. Gonzalez