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Zigzag edges of graphene nanostructures host localized electronic states that are predicted to be spin-polarized. However, these edge states are highly susceptible to edge roughness and interaction with a supporting substrate, complicating…

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The recent discovery of methods to isolate graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of crystalline carbon, has raised the possibility of a new class of nano-electronics devices based on the extraordinary electrical transport and unusual physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-02 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Anthony Barker , Eva Y. Andrei

We study how the electronic structure of the bilayer graphene (BLG) is changed by electric field and strain from {\it ab initio} density-functional calculations using the LMTO and the LAPW methods. Both hexagonal and Bernal stacked…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-10 B. R. K. Nanda , S. Satpathy

Low-energy electronic structure of (unbiased) bilayer graphene is made of two Fermi points with quadratic dispersions, if trigonal-warping and other high order contributions are ignored. We show that as a result of this qualitative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-01-04 Oskar Vafek , Kun Yang

Bilayer graphene (two coupled graphitic monolayers arranged according to Bernal stacking) is a two-dimensional gapless semiconductor with a peculiar electronic spectrum different from the Dirac spectrum in the monolayer material. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Kechedzhi , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , E. McCann , B. L. Altshuler

We study the electronic and magnetic properties of multilayer quantum dots (MQDs) of graphite in the nearest-neighbor approximation of tight-binding model. We calculate the electronic density of states and orbital susceptibility of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-19 Hazem Abdelsalam , Tania Espinosa-Ortega , Igor Lukyanchuk

Studies of the structural, electronic, and optical characteristics of the interfaces between graphene and ZnO polar surfaces is carried out using first-principles simulations. At the interface, a strong van der Waals force is present, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-23 H. D. Etea , K. N. Nigussa

Spatially inhomogeneous strains in graphene can simulate the effects of valley-dependent magnetic fields. As demonstrated in recent experiments, the realizable magnetic fields are large enough to give rise to well-defined flat pseudo-Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-25 Pouyan Ghaemi , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Shinsei Ryu

Recent transport studies have demonstrated the great potential of twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene (tMBG) as a new platform to host moir\'e flat bands with a higher tunability than twisted bilayer graphene (tBG). However, a direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Ling-Hui Tong , Qingjun Tong , Li-Zhen Yang , Yue-Ying Zhou , Qilong Wu , Yuan Tian , Li Zhang , Lijie Zhang , Zhihui Qin , Long-Jing Yin

The energy spectrum and electronic density of states (DOS) of zigzag graphene nanoribbons with edges reconstructed with topological defects are investigated within the tight-binding method. In case of the Stone-Wales zz (57) edge the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 Richard Pincak , Jan Smotlacha , Vladimir A. Osipov

Gapless bilayer graphene (GBG), like monolayer graphene, is a material system with unique properties, such as anti-Klein tunneling and intrinsic Fano resonances. These properties rely on the gapless parabolic dispersion relation and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 J. A. Briones-Torres , R. Pernas-Salomón , R. Pérez-Álvarez , I. Rodríguez-Vargas

Owing to the spin, valley, and orbital symmetries, the lowest Landau level (LL) in bilayer graphene exhibits multicomponent quantum Hall ferromagnetism. Using transport spectroscopy, we investigate the energy gaps of integer and fractional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Yanmeng Shi , Yongjin Lee , Shi Che , Ziqi Pi , Timothy Espiritu , Petr Stepanov , Dmitry Smirnov , Chun Ning Lau , Fan Zhang

The tight-binding model is closely associated with the modified layer-based random-phase approximation to thoroughly investigate the electron-electron interactions in sliding bilayer graphene. The Coulomb interactions and intralayer and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-13 Chiun-Yan Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

We study the effects of site dilution disorder on the electronic properties in graphene multilayers, in particular the bilayer and the infinite stack. The simplicity of the model allows for an easy implementation of the coherent potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-03 Johan Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres

The experimental study of edge states in atomically-thin layered materials remains a challenge due to the difficult control of the geometry of the sample terminations, the stability of dangling bonds and the need to measure local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 M. Milicevic , T. Ozawa , P. Andreakou , I. Carusotto , T. Jacqmin , E. Galopin , A. Lemaître , L. Le Gratiet , I. Sagnes , J. Bloch , A. Amo

We have explored the electronic properties of stacked graphene flakes with the help of the quantum chemistry methods. We found that the behavior of a bilayer system is governed by the strength of the repulsive interactions that arise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Julia Berashevich , Tapash Chakraborty

The magnetoelectronic properties of quasi-one-dimensional zigzag graphene nanoribbons are investigated by using the Peierls tight-binding model. Quasi-Landau levels (QLLs), dispersionless Landau subbands within a certain region of k-space,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-19 Hsien-Ching Chung , Po-Hua Yang , To-Sing Li , Ming-Fa Lin

An Atomic Force Microscope is used to locally manipulate a single layer graphene sheet. Transport measurements in this region as well as in the unmanipulated part reveal different charge carrier densities while mobilities stay in the order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 H. Schmidt , J. C. Rode , C. Belke , D. Smirnov , R. J. Haug

We study the existence and topological stability of Fermi points in a graphene layer and stacks with many layers. We show that the discrete symmetries (spacetime inversion) stabilize the Fermi points in monolayer, bilayer and multilayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Juan L. Mañes , Francisco Guinea , María A. H. Vozmediano