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We investigate graphene superlattices of nitrogen and boron substitutional defects and by using symmetry arguments and electronic structure calculations we show how such superlattices can be used to modify graphene band structure.…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-25 Simone Casolo , Rocco Martinazzo , Gian Franco Tantardini

The design of stacks of layered materials in which adjacent layers interact by van der Waals forces[1] has enabled the combination of various two-dimensional crystals with different electrical, optical and mechanical properties, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 L. Ju , J. Velasco , E. Huang , S. Kahn , C. Nosiglia , H. Tsai , W. Yang , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , Y. Zhang , G. Zhang , M. Crommie , A. Zettl , F. Wang

Graphene hosting a pair of collinear adatoms in the phantom atom configuration has pseudogap with cubic scaling on energy, $\Delta\propto|\varepsilon|^{3}$ which leads to the appearance of spin-degenerate bound states in the continuum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-15 L. H. Guessi , Y. Marques , R. S. Machado , K. Kristinsson , L. S. Ricco , I. A. Shelykh , M. S. Figueira , M. de Souza , A. C. Seridonio

Dirac fermions play a central role in the study of topological phases, for they can generate a variety of exotic states, such as Weyl semimetals and topological insulators. The control and manipulation of Dirac fermions constitute a…

Crystal fields occur due to a potential difference between chemically different atomic species. In Van-der-Waals heterostructures such fields are naturally present perpendicular to the planes. It has been realized recently that twisted…

A number of interesting properties of graphene and graphite are postulated to derive from the peculiar bandstructure of graphene. This bandstructure consists of conical electron and hole pockets that meet at a single point in momentum (k)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Aaron Bostwick , Taisuke Ohta , Thomas Seyller , K. Horn , Eli Rotenberg

The properties of graphene-like BC$_6$N semiconductor are studied using density functional theory taking into account the attractive interaction between B and N atoms. In the presence of a strong attractive interaction between B and N…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Botan Jawdat Abdullah , Chi-Shung Tang , Vidar Gudmundsson

Two-dimensional carbon, or graphene, is a semi-metal that presents unusual low-energy electronic excitations described in terms of Dirac fermions. We analyze in a self-consistent way the effects of localized (impurities or vacancies) and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 N. M. R. Peres , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

Based on the tight-binding model calculations and photonic experimental visualization on graphene, we report the domain-wall-induced gapped topological kink states and topological corner states. In graphene, domain walls with gapless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 Yuting Yang , Ziyuan Jia , Yijia Wu , Zhi-Hong Hang , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

Recent experimental findings and theoretical predictions suggest that nitrogen-doped CVD-grown graphene may give rise to electronic band gaps due to impurity distributions which favour segregation on a single sublattice. Here we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Thomas Aktor , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Stephen R. Power

We present a new way to tune the electron-phonon coupling (EPC) in graphene by changing the deformation potential with electron/hole doping. We show the EPC for highest optical branch at the high symmetry point K, acquires a strong…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-03 Claudio Attaccalite , Ludger Wirtz , Michele Lazzeri , Francesco Mauri , Angel Rubio

Graphene p-n junctions provide an ideal platform for investigating novel behavior at the boundary between electronics and optics that arise from massless Dirac fermions, such as whispering gallery modes and Veselago lensing. Bilayer…

An experimental study of Raman scattering in N-layer graphene as a function of the top layer doping is reported. At high doping level, achieved by a CHF_3 plasma treatment, we observe a splitting of the $G$ band in the spectra of bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-23 M. Bruna , S. Borini

Electronic analogue of generalized Goos-H\"{a}nchen shifts is investigated in the monolayer graphene superlattice with one-dimensional periodic potentials of square barriers. It is found that the lateral shifts for the electron beam…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Xi Chen , Pei-Liang Zhao , Xiao-Jing Lu , Li-Gang Wang

The band structure of ABC-stacked N-layer graphene comprises topologically corresponding flat surface and gapped bulk subbands, as a consequence of the unique stacking configuration. In this paper, the bulk subbands are for the first times…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Ching-Hong Ho , Cheng-Peng Chang , Ming-Fa Lin

At low energy, electrons in doped graphene sheets behave like massless Dirac fermions with a Fermi velocity which does not depend on carrier density. Here we show that modulating a two-dimensional electron gas with a long-wavelength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 M. Gibertini , A. Singha , V. Pellegrini , M. Polini , G. Vignale , A. Pinczuk , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We formulate a low energy effective Hamiltonian to study superlattices in bilayer graphene (BLG) using a minimal model which supports quadratic band touching points. We show that a one dimensional (1D) periodic modulation of the chemical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-23 Matthew Killi , Si Wu , Arun Paramekanti

We investigated a suspended bilayer graphene where the bottom (top) layer is doped by boron (nitrogen) substitutional atoms by using Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. We found that at high dopant concentration (one B-N pair…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-25 Daniele Giofré , Davide Ceresoli , Mario I. Trioni

We show that the work function of exfoliated single layer graphene can be modified by irradiation with swift (E_{kin}=92 MeV) heavy ions under glancing angles of incidence. Upon ion impact individual surface tracks are created in graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 O. Ochedowski , B. Kleine Bussmann , B. Ban d'Etat , H. Lebius , M. Schleberger

The $\pi$-electronic structure of graphene in the presence of a modulated electric potential is investigated by the tight-binding model. The low-energy electronic properties are strongly affected by the period and field strength. Such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. H. Ho , Y. H. Chiu , S. J. Tsai , M. F. Lin