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Graphene and few-layer graphene at high bias expose a wealth of phenomena due to the high temperatures reached. With in-situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) we observe directly how the current modifies the structure, and vice versa.…

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Graphene and related two-dimensional materials are promising candidates for atomically thin, flexible, and transparent optoelectronics. In particular, the strong light-matter interaction in graphene has allowed for the development of…

Intensive research has focused on harnessing the potential of graphene for electronic, optoelectronic, and spintronic devices by generating a bandgap at the Dirac point and enhancing the spin-orbit interaction in the graphene layer.…

Phonon drag may be harnessed for thermoelectric generators and devices. Here, we demonstrate the geometric control of the phonon-drag contribution to the thermopower. In nanometer-thin electrically conducting $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ films…

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Graphene was deposited on a transparent and flexible substrate and tensile strain up to ~0.8% was loaded by stretching the substrate in one direction. Raman spectra of strained graphene show significant redshifts of 2D and G band (-27.8…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-21 Zhen Hua Ni , Ting Yu , Yun Hao Lu , Ying Ying Wang , Yuan Ping Feng , Ze Xiang Shen

Quasi free-standing monolayer graphene can be produced by intercalating species like oxygen or hydrogen between epitaxial graphene and the substrate crystal. If the graphene is indeed decoupled from the substrate, one would expect the…

Density functional theory (DFT) and many body perturbation theory at the G$_0$W$_0$ level are employed to study the electronic properties of polythiophene (PT) adsorbed on graphene surface. Analysis of charge density difference shows the…

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Electron-phonon coupling directly determines the stability of cooperative order in solids, including superconductivity, charge and spin density waves. Therefore, the ability to enhance or reduce electron-phonon coupling by optical driving…

Phonon polaritons in natural anisotropic crystals hold great promise for infrared nano-optics. However, the direct electrical control of these polaritons is difficult, preventing the development of active polaritonic devices. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-24 Zhiyong Li , Zefeng Chen , Jingwen Ma , Xin Hu , Pan Wang , Yungui Ma , Jian-Bin Xu

We find that the frequency spectra of layered phononic and photonic composites admit a universal struc- ture, independent of the geometry of the periodic-cell and the specific physical properties. We show that this representation extends to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-18 Gal Shmuel , Ram Band

Interference between different possible paths lies at the heart of quantum physics. Such interference between coupled discrete and continuum states of a system can profoundly change its interaction with light as seen in Fano resonance. Here…

Graphene is an ideal 2D material system bridging electronic and photonic devices. It also breaks the fundamental speed and size limits by electronics and photonics, respectively. Graphene offers multiple functions of signal transmission,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-19 Rong Wang , Xingang Ren , Ze Yan , Lijun Jiang , Wei E. I. Sha , Guangcun Shan

Developing graphene-based nanoelectronics hinges on opening a band gap in the electronic structure of graphene, which is commonly achieved by breaking the inversion symmetry of the graphene lattice via an electric field (gate bias) or…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-11 Liangzhi Kou , Feiming Hu , Binghai Yan , Thomas Frauenheim , Changfeng Chen

In this work we show, by means of a density functional theory formalism, that the simple physical contact between hydrogen terminated boron nitride surfaces gives rise to a metallic interface with free carries of opposite sign at each…

We report planar tunneling spectroscopy measurements on metal-WSe$_2$-twisted bilayer graphene heterostructures across a broad range of gate and bias voltages. The observed experimental features are attributed to phonon-assisted tunneling…

We report on infrared (IR) nanoscopy of 2D plasmon excitations of Dirac fermions in graphene. This is achieved by confining mid-IR radiation at the apex of a nanoscale tip: an approach yielding two orders of magnitude increase in the value…

Optical harmonic generation occurs when high intensity light ($>10^{10}$W/m$^{2}$) interacts with a nonlinear material. Electrical control of the nonlinear optical response enables applications such as gate-tunable switches and frequency…

We predict enhanced electron-hole superfluidity in two coupled electron-hole armchair-edge terminated graphene nanoribbons separated by a thin insulating barrier. In contrast to graphene monolayers, the multiple subbands of the nanoribbons…

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Adatom-decorated graphene offers a promising new path towards spintronics in the ultrathin limit. We combine experiment and theory to investigate the electronic properties of dilutely fluorinated bilayer graphene, where the fluorine adatoms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Adam A. Stabile , Aires Ferreira , Jing Li , N. M. R. Peres , J. Zhu

In this letter, we report a method to control reflection phase of microwaves using electrically tunable graphene devices. The device consists of mutually gated large-area graphene layers placed at a quarter-wave distance from a metallic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Osman Balci , Nurbek Kakenov , Coskun Kocabas