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Designing thermoelectric materials with high figure of merit $ZT=S^2 G T/\kappa$ requires fulfilling three often irreconcilable conditions, i.e., the high electrical conductance $G$, small thermal conductance $\kappa$ and high Seebeck…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-11 Po-Hao Chang , Mohammad Saeed Bahramy , Naoto Nagaosa , Branislav K. Nikolic

Graphene halfly doped with H or F possesses local magnetization at the undoped C sites. Thus the Seebeck coefficient is different for each spin channel and its sign also changes depending on the spin polarization. Deposition of doped…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-07 Malgorzata Wierzbowska , Adam Dominiak

Graphene-oxide hybrid structures offer the opportunity to combine the versatile functionalities of oxides with the excellent electronic transport in graphene. Understanding and controlling how the dielectric environment affects the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-26 X. Hong , K. Zou , A. M. DaSilva , C. H. Ahn , J. Zhu

We show that the $d^{0}$ ferromagnetism with high Curie temperature ($T_c$) can be achieved in the electron doped hydrogenated epitaxial graphene on some certain SiC substrates through first-principles calculations. The pristine systems are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Pengcheng Chen , Yuanchang Li , Wenhui Duan

Ever since the initial experimental observation of correlated insulators and superconductivity in the flat Dirac bands of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene, a search for the microscopic description that explains its strong electronic…

Thermoelectric effects result from the coupling of charge and heat transport, and can be used for thermometry, cooling and harvesting of thermal energy. The microscopic origin of thermoelectric effects is a broken electron-hole symmetry,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-08 S. Kolenda , P. Machon , D. Beckmann , W. Belzig

When electrons are confined in two-dimensional (2D) materials, quantum mechanically enhanced transport phenomena, as exemplified by the quantum Hall effects (QHE), can be observed. Graphene, an isolated single atomic layer of graphite, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuanbo Zhang , Yan-Wen Tan , Horst L. Stormer , Philip Kim

The temperature-induced shift of the Raman G line in epitaxial graphene on SiC and Ni surfaces, as well as in graphene supported on SiO2, is investigated with Raman spectroscopy. The thermal shift rate of epitaxial graphene on 6H-SiC(0001)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-18 Nicola Ferralis , Roya Maboudian , Carlo Carraro

The quantum corrections to the conductivity and the thermopower in monolayer graphene are studied. We use the recursive Green's function method to calculate numerically the conductivity and the thermopower of graphene. We then analyze these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-19 Aleksander P. Hinz , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Stefan Kettemann

The thermoelectric power of nondegenerate Kane semiconductors with due regard for the electron and phonon heating, and their thermal and mutual drags is investigated. The electron spectrum is taken in the Kane two-band form. It is shown…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. M. Babaev , T. M. Gassym , M. Tas , M. Tomak

By means of numerical simulations, we explore possible effects of a special interparticle interaction potential which is a function of external and internal conditions of graphene-like systems. In addition to the electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 José Abdalla Helayël-Neto , Elena Konstantinova , Ricardo Spagnuolo Martins

We theoretically study various aspects of the electron-surface optical phonon interaction effects in graphene on a substrate made of polar materials. We calculate the electron self-energy in the presence of the surface phonon-mediated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-25 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Contrary to most materials, graphene exhibits a negative thermal expansion coefficient (TEC), i.e it contracts when heated. This contraction is due to the thermal excitation of low energy out-of-plane vibration modes. These flexural modes…

Unlike in conventional semiconductors, both the chemical potential and the band gap in bilayer graphene (BLG) can be tuned via application of external electric field. Among numerous device implications, this property also designates BLG as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Dominik Suszalski , Grzegorz Rut , Adam Rycerz

We describe very fast electron dynamics for a graphene nanoribbon driven by a control electromagnetic field in the terahertz regime. The mobility as a function of bias possesses a large threshold value when entering a nonlinear transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , O. Roslyak

Electrons in graphene exhibit hydrodynamic behavior in a certain range of temperatures. We indicate that electric current in this regime can result in cooling of electron fluid due to the Joule-Thomson effect. Cooling occurs in the Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 K. Zarembo

We argue, for a wide class of systems including graphene, that in the low temperature, high density, large separation and strong screening limits the drag resistivity behaves as d^{-4}, where d is the separation between the two layers. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 B Amorim , N M R Peres

We calculate the finite temperature compressibility for two-dimensional semiconductor systems, monolayer graphene, and bilayer graphene within the Hartree-Fock approximation. We find that the calculated temperature dependent compressibility…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-02 Qiuzi Li , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We have measured the temperature and magnetic field dependence of the Hall coefficient ($R_{\rm H}$) in three, several micrometer long multigraphene samples of thickness between $\sim 9~$to $\sim 30$~nm in the temperature range 0.1 to 200~K…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-07 P. Esquinazi , J. Krüger , J. Barzola-Quiquia , R. Schönemann , T. Herrmannsdörfer , N. García

The low magnetic field diffusion thermopower of a high mobility GaAs-heterostructure has been measured directly on an electrostatically defined micron-scale Hall-bar structure at low temperature (T = 1.6 K) in the low magnetic field regime…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Maximov , M. Gbordzoe , H. Buhmann , L. W. Molenkamp , D. Reuter