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We analyze the effect of screening provided by the additional graphene layer in double layer graphene heterostructures (DLGs) on transport characteristics of DLG devices in the metallic regime. The effect of gate-tunable charge density in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-16 K. Kechedzhi , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

The doping of graphene to tune its electronic structure is essential for its further use in carbon based electronics. Adapting strategies from classical silicon based semiconductor technology, we use the incorporation of heteroatoms in the…

Measuring the transport of electrons through a graphene sheet necessarily involves contacting it with metal electrodes. We study the adsorption of graphene on metal substrates using first-principles calculations at the level of density…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 P. A. Khomyakov , G. Giovannetti , P. C. Rusu , G. Brocks , J. van den Brink , P. J. Kelly

The unique properties of graphene offer immense opportunities for applications to many scientific fields, as well as societal needs, beyond our present imagination. One of the important features of graphene is the relatively simple…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-27 Otakar Frank , Mildred S. Dresselhaus , Martin Kalbac

We study the effect of electron-electron interactions in the optical conductivity of graphene under applied bias and derive a generalization of Elliot's formula, commonly used for semiconductors, for the optical intensity. We show that {\it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-29 N. M. R. Peres , R. M. Ribeiro , A. H. Castro Neto

We investigate the transport of electrons in disordered and pristine graphene devices. Fano shot noise, a standard metric to assess the mechanism for electronic transport in mesoscopic devices, has been shown to produce almost the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Mario F. Borunda , H. Hennig , Eric J. Heller

We study the electronic structure of diluted F atoms chemisorbed on graphene using density functional theory calculations. We show that the nature of the chemical bonding of a F atom adsorbed on top of a C atom in graphene strongly depends…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 J. O. Sofo , A. M. Suarez , Gonzalo Usaj , P. S. Cornaglia , A. D. Hernández-Nieves , C. A. Balseiro

The conductance of ballistic graphene at the neutrality point is due to coherent electron tunneling between the leads, the so called pseudodiffusive regime. The conductance scales as function of the sample dimensions in the same way as in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson

Ab-initio calculations have been performed to study the geometry and electronic structure of boron (B) and nitrogen (N) doped graphene sheet. The effect of doping has been investigated by varying the concentrations of dopants from 2 % (one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Pooja Rani , V. K. Jindal

Adsorbates on graphene can create resonances that lead to efficient electron scattering and strongly affect the electronic conductivity. Therefore a proper description of these resonances is important to get a good insight of their effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 Guy Trambly de Laissardière , Didier Mayou

Modulation doping, a well-established technique for traditional semiconductor heterostructures, is a promising approach for tailoring carrier concentration in 2D materials devices. In this letter we report on photoinduced modulation doping…

The first-principles simulation of the electronic structure of organic semiconductors in solution poses a number of challenges that are not trivial to address simultaneously. In this work, we investigate the effects and the mutual interplay…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-08 Jannis Krumland , Ana M. Valencia , Caterina Cocchi

Doping of semiconductor is necessary for various device applications. Exploiting chemistry at its reactive edges was shown to be an effective way to dope an atomically thin graphene nanoribbon (GNR) for realizing new devices in recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Yijian Ouyang , Stefano Sanvito , Jing Guo

Electrons and holes in clean, charge-neutral graphene behave like a strongly coupled relativistic liquid. The thermo-electric transport properties of the interacting Dirac quasiparticles are rather special, being constrained by an emergent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-23 Markus Mueller , Lars Fritz , Subir Sachdev , Joerg Schmalian

In this paper we review thermal properties of graphene and multilayer graphene and discuss the optothermal technique developed for the thermal conductivity measurements. We also outline different theoretical approaches used for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 Alexander A. Balandin , Denis L. Nika

Understanding the interactions of ambient molecules with graphene and adjacent dielectrics is of fundamental importance for a range of graphene-based devices, particularly sensors, where such interactions could influence the operation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 Eric J. Olson , Rui Ma , Tao Sun , Mona A. Ebrish , Nazila Haratipour , Kyoungmin Min , Narayana R. Aluru , Steven J. Koester

Most materials in available macroscopic quantities are polycrystalline. Graphene, a recently discovered two-dimensional form of carbon with strong potential for replacing silicon in future electronics, is no exception. There is growing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Oleg V. Yazyev , Steven G. Louie

In this work, we present a systematic DFT investigation of the interaction between B-doped graphene and four selected metals: Mg and Zn, relevant for next-generation metal-ion batteries, and Cu and Pt, important for single-atom catalysis.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-17 Nikola Veličković , Natalia V. Skorodumova , Ana S. Dobrota

Effects of interaction of graphene with electron donor and acceptor molecules have been investigated by employing Raman spectroscopy. The G band softens progressively with the increasing concentration of tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) which is an…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-08-26 Rakesh Voggu , Barun Das , Chandra Sekhar Rout , C. N. R. Rao

We examine thermal transport in graphene supported on SiO2 using molecular dynamics simulations. Coupling to the substrate reduces the thermal conductivity (TC) of supported graphene by an order of magnitude, due to damping of the flexural…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Zhun-Yong Ong , Eric Pop