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The screened Coulomb potential plays a crucial role in the binding energies of excitons in a thin dielectric slab. The asymptotic behavior of this potential is studied when the thickness of the slab is very small as compared to the exciton…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Didier Felbacq , Emmanuel Rousseau

Deeply sub-wavelength two-dimensional films may exhibit extraordinarily strong nonlinear effects. Here we show that 2D films exhibit the remarkable property of a phase-controllable nonlinearity, i.e., the amplitude of the nonlinear…

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

Based on the non-crossing approximation, we calculate both the linear and nonlinear conductance within the two-lead two-channel single-impurity Anderson model where the conduction electron density of states vanishes in a power-law fashion $…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-20 Tsung-Han Lee , Kenneth Yi-Jieh Zhang , Chung-Hou Chung , Stefan Kirchner

Reduced electron screening in two-dimension plays a fundamental role in determining exciton properties, which dictates optoelectronic and photonic device performances. Considering the explicit electron-hole interaction within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Srilatha Arra , Rohit Babar , Mukul Kabir

Coulomb interactions in atomically thin materials are uniquely sensitive to variations in the dielectric screening of the environment, which can be used to control quasiparticles and exotic quantum many-body phases. A static approximation…

Coulomb interactions play an essential role in atomically-thin materials. On one hand, they are strong and long-ranged in layered systems due to the lack of environmental screening. On the other hand, they can be efficiently tuned by means…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Zhihao Jiang , Stephan Haas , Malte Rösner

We present a theoretical framework for nonlinear optics of graphene and other 2D materials in layered structures. We derive a key equation to find the effective electric field and the sheet current density in the 2D material for given…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-27 J. L. Cheng , J. E. Sipe , N. Vermeulen , C. Guo

Electron-plasmon coupling in graphene has recently been shown to give rise to a "plasmaron" quasiparticle excitation. The strength of this coupling has been predicted to depend on the effective screening, which in turn is expected to depend…

The influence of screening on the condensed state of bilayer graphene is studied within the framework of the Thomas Fermi approximation. We find that screening has little effect on the Kosterlitz-Thouless temperature in the strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-03 R. Bistritzer , H. Min , J. J. Su , A. H. MacDonald

Electrostatic gating lies in the heart of modern FET-based integrated circuits. Usually, the gate electrode has to be placed very close to the conduction channel, typically a few nanometers, in order to achieve efficient tunability.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Aolin Deng , Cheng Hu , Peiyue Shen , Xingdong Luo , Jiajun Chen , Bosai Lyu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Qi Liang , Jie Ma , Zhiwen Shi

We have investigated the Coulomb screening properties and collective excitations in a graphene bilayer. The static screening effect is anisotropic and is much stronger in the undoped graphene bilayer than in a monolayer graphene [1]. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Xue-Feng Wang , Tapash Chakraborty

We consider a double-layer system made of two parallel bilayer graphene sheets separated by a dielectric medium. We calculate the finite-temperature electrical conductivity of the first layer due to charged impurities located in two layers.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Dang Khanh Linh , Nguyen Quoc Khanh

In this work, we investigate the local effects of a single short-range impurity on the electron system of a short ballistic graphene Josephson Junction. Within the Dirac-Bogoliubov-De Gennes approach, we systematically analyze the local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Ignazio Vacante , Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , Giuseppe A. Falci , Elisabetta Paladino

Using a scanning electron microscope, we observed a reproducible, discrete distribution of secondary electron intensity stemming from an atomically thick graphene film on a thick insulating substrate. The discrete distribution made it…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-29 Hidefumi Hiura , Hisao Miyazaki , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi

The strong long-range Coulomb interaction between massless Dirac fermions in graphene can drive a semimetal-insulator transition. We show that this transition is strongly suppressed when the Coulomb interaction is screened by such effects…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Guo-Zhu Liu , Wei Li , Geng Cheng

Understanding the effect of electric fields on the physical and chemical properties of two-dimensional (2D) nanostructures is instrumental in the design of novel electronic and optoelectronic devices. Several of those properties are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Elton J. G. Santos

This study examines electrostatic screening effects in graphene using tight binding calculations based on the Binding energy and Bond Charge model and a modified version of it. The results indicate that the modified BBC potential decays in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Yaorui Tan , Xiang Chen , Yunhu Zhu , Xiaowu Yang , Zhongkai Huang , Chuang Yao , Maolin Bo

A new mechanism for charge carrier scattering in transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers is proposed on the basis of the theory of two-dimensional nonlocal screening developed for the dielectric function of thin-layer insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Aram Manaselyan , Vram Mughnetsyan , Anna Asatryan , Albert Kirakosyan

Because of the dominant role of the surface of molecules and their individuality, molecules behave dis-tinctively in a confined space, which has far-reaching implications in many physical, chemical and bio-logical systems. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 DaeEung Lee , Gwanghyun Ahn , Sunmin Ryu