English
Related papers

Related papers: Electronic structure of graphene on single crystal…

200 papers

First principles calculations, employed to address the properties of polycrystalline graphene, indicate that the electronic structure of tilt grain boundaries in this system displays a rather complex evolution towards graphene bulk, as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Joice da Silva Araujo , R. W. Nunes

Graphene is a unique two-dimensional material with rich new physics and great promise for applications in electronic devices. Physical phenomena such as the half-integer quantum Hall effect and high carrier mobility are critically dependent…

Here we report the photoemission studies of intercalation process of Fe underneath graphene layer on Ni(111). The process of intercalation was monitored via XPS of corresponding core levels and UPS of the graphene-derived $\pi$ states in…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Yu. S. Dedkov , M. Fonin , U. Rüdiger , C. Laubschat

Intercalation of rare earth metals ($RE$ = Eu, Dy, and Gd) is achieved by depositing the $RE$ metal on graphene that is grown on silicon-carbide (SiC) and by subsequent annealing at high temperatures to promote intercalation. STM images of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-16 Nathaniel A. Anderson , Myron Hupalo , David Keavney , Michael Tringides , David Vaknin

Controlled defect creation is a prerequisite for the detailed study of disorder effects in materials. Here, we irradiate a graphene/Ir(111)-interface with low-energy Ar+ to study the induced structural changes. Combining computer…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-01 E. H. Åhlgren , S. K. Hämäläinen , O. Lehtinen , P. Liljeroth , J. Kotakoski

The structure of a single layer of graphene on Ru(0001) has been studied using surface x-ray diffraction. A surprising superstructure has been determined, whereby 25 x 25 graphene unit cells lie on 23 x 23 unit cells of Ru. Each supercell…

Intercalation of atomic species through epitaxial graphene layers began only a few years following its initial report in 2004. The impact of intercalation on the electronic properties of the graphene is well known; however, the intercalant…

In this work we study theoretically the electronic properties of a sheet of graphene grown on a periodic heterostructure substrate. We write an effective Dirac equation, which includes a dependence of both the band gap and the Fermi…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-12 Jonas R. F. Lima , F. Moraes

Graphene has attracted great attentions since its first discovery in 2004. Various approaches have been proposed to control its physical and electronic properties. Here, we report that graphene based intercalation compounds is an efficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-04 Da Zhan , Li Sun , Zhenhua Ni , Lei Liu , Xiaofeng Fan , Yingying Wang , Ting Yu , Yeng Ming Lam , Wei Huang , Zexiang Shen

Bilayer graphene is a highly promising material for electronic and optoelectronic applications since it is supporting massive Dirac fermions with a tuneable band gap. However, no consistent picture of the gap's effect on the optical and…

Graphene is a fascinating 2D material that is being widely investigated for use in electronic devices due to its unique electronic and materials properties. Also, because of its high thermal stability and inertness, it is considered a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Tianbai Li , Jory A. Yarmoff

Compressed hydrogen passes through a series of layered structures in which the layers can be viewed as distorted graphene sheets. The electronic structures of these layered structures can be understood by studying simple model systems- an…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-22 Ivan I. Naumov , R. E. Cohen , Russell J. Hemley

We previously show [JETP Letters, {\bf 114}, 763 (2021)] that a graphene sample placed on a ferromagnetic substrate demonstrates a cooperative magnetoelectronic instability. The instability induces a gap in the electronic spectrum and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 D. N. Dresviankin , A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov

After the discovery of graphene and its many fascinating properties, there has been a growing interest for the study of "artificial graphenes". These are totally different and novel systems which bear exciting similarities with graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-20 Gilles Montambaux

By means of the first-principles calculations combined with the tight-binding approximation, the strain-induced semiconductor-semimetal transition in graphdiyne is discovered. It is shown that the band gap of graphdiyne increases from 0.47…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 Hui-Juan Cui , Xian-Lei Sheng , Qing-Bo Yan , Qing-Rong Zheng , Gang Su

Two experimental studies reported the spontaneous formation of amorphous and crystalline structures of C60 intercalated between graphene and a substrate. They observed interesting phenomena ranging from reaction between C60 molecules under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 Alexandre F. Fonseca , Sócrates O. Dantas , Douglas S. Galvão , Difan Zhang , Susan B. Sinnott

We have used scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy to resolve the spatial variation of the density of states of twisted graphene layers on top of a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite substrate. Owing to the twist a moire pattern…

We report measurements of the electronic structure and surface morphology of exfoliated graphene on an insulating substrate using angle-resolved photoemission and low energy electron diffraction. Our results show that although exfoliated…

We study the electronic structure of multilayer graphene using a $\pi$-orbital continuum model with nearest-neighbor intralayer and interlayer tunneling. Using degenerate state perturbation theory, we show that the low-energy electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-18 Hongki Min , A. H. MacDonald

We have imaged a freestanding graphene sheet of 210 nm in diameter with 2 Angstrom resolution by combining coherent diffraction and holography with low-energy electrons. The entire sheet is reconstructed from just a single diffraction…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-15 Jean-Nicolas Longchamp , Tatiana Latychevskaia , Conrad Escher , Hans-Werner Fink