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Straining graphene results in the appearance of a pseudo-magnetic field which alters its local electronic properties. Applying a pressure difference between the two sides of the membrane causes it to bend/bulge resulting in a resistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-03 S. P. Milovanovic , M. Z. Tadic , F. M. Peeters

A 3D layered system of charges with logarithmic interaction parallel to the layers and random dipoles is studied via a novel variational method and an energy rationale which reproduce the known phase diagram for a single layer. Increasing…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Baruch Horovitz , Pierre Le Doussal

Intrinsic bilayer graphene is a gapless semimetal. Under the application of a bias field it becomes a semiconductor with a direct band gap that is proportional to the applied field. Under a layer-asymmetric strain (where the upper layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-04 J. A. Crosse

A brief review of experiments directed to study a gradual localization of charge carriers and metal-insulator transition in samples of disordered monolayer graphene is presented. Disorder was induced by irradiation with different doses of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-25 I. Shlimak , E. Zion , A. Butenko , Yu. Kaganovskii , V. Richter , A. Sharoni , E. Kogan , M. Kaveh

We demonstrated theoretically that the renormalization of the electron energy spectrum near the Dirac point of graphene by a strong high-frequency electromagnetic field (dressing field) drastically depends on polarization of the field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 K. Kristinsson , O. V. Kibis , S. Morina , I. A. Shelykh

We develop a theory for the compressibility and quantum capacitance of disordered monolayer and bilayer graphene including the full hyperbolic band structure and band gap in the latter case. We include the effects of disorder in our theory,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-09 D. S. L. Abergel , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Although progress with twisted graphene nano-devices is boosting the superconductivity that is the consequence of their Moir\'e flat electronic bands, the immense choice for future development is an obstacle for their optimisation. We…

The phase diagram of graphene decorated with magnetic adatoms distributed either on a single sublattice, or evenly over the two sublattices, is computed for adatom concentrations as low as $\sim1\%$. Within the framework of the $s$-$d$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-28 Frederico J. Sousa , B. Amorim , Eduardo V. Castro

The speed of silicon-based transistors has reached an impasse in the recent decade, primarily due to scaling techniques and the short-channel effect. Conversely, graphene (a revolutionary new material possessing an atomic thickness) has…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-03 K. C. Yung , W. M. Wu , M. P. Pierpoint , F. V. Kusmartsev

Using the transfer matrix method, we study the conductance of the chiral particles through a monolayer graphene superlattice with long-range correlated disorder distributed on the potential of the barriers. Even though the transmission of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-08-22 Hosein Cheraghchi , Amir Hossein Irani , Sayyed Mahdi Fazeli , Reza Asgari

Quantum oscillations in graphene is discussed. The effect of interactions are addressed by Kohn's theorem regarding de Haas-van Alphen oscillations, which states that electron-electron interactions cannot affect the oscillation frequencies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-06 Pallab Goswami , Xun Jia , Sudip Chakravarty

Amorphous graphene or amorphous monolayer carbon (AMC) is a family of carbon films that exhibit a surprising sensitivity of electronic conductance to morphology. We combine deep learning-enhanced simulation techniques with percolation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Nicolas Gastellu , Ata Madanchi , Lena Simine

Graphene is intrinsically non-flat and corrugates randomly. Since the corrugating physics of atomically-thin graphene is strongly tied to its electronics properties, randomly corrugating morphology of graphene poses significant challenge to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Teng Li

Controlling the properties of materials by driving them out of equilibrium is an exciting prospect that has only recently begun to be explored. In this paper we give a striking theoretical example of such materials design: a tunable gap in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-29 Thomas Iadecola , David Campbell , Claudio Chamon , Chang-Yu Hou , Roman Jackiw , So-Young Pi , Silvia Viola Kusminskiy

Graphene, being one-atom thick, is extremely sensitive to the presence of adsorbed atoms and molecules and, more generally, to defects such as vacancies, holes and/or substitutional dopants. This property, apart from being directly usable…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-04-08 Rocco Martinazzo , Simone Casolo , Gian Franco Tantardini

We investigate the effects of homogeneous and inhomogeneous deformations and edge disorder on the conductance of gated graphene nanoribbons. Under increasing homogeneous strain the conductance of such devices initially decreases before it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Diana A. Cosma , Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski , Henning Schomerus , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Edge effects play an important role for many properties of graphene. While most works have focused on the effects from isolated free edges, we present a novel knotting phenomenon induced by the interactions between a pair of free edges in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 Hao-Yu Zhang , Jin-Wu Jiang , Tienchong Chang , Xingming Guo , Harold S. Park

Graphene revealed a number of unique properties beneficial for electronics. However, graphene does not have an energy band-gap, which presents a serious hurdle for its applications in digital logic gates. The efforts to induce a band-gap in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Guanxiong Liu , Sonia Ahsan , Alexander G. Khitun , Roger K. Lake , Alexander A. Balandin

The complete theory of electrical conductivity of graphene at arbitrary temperature is developed with taken into account mass-gap parameter and chemical potential. Both the in-plane and out-of-plane conductivities of graphene are expressed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-25 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , V. M. Petrov

We show that the low-energy electronic structure of graphene under a one-dimensional inhomogeneous magnetic field can be mapped into that of graphene under an electric field or vice versa. As a direct application of this transformation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-31 Liang Zheng Tan , Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie