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Charge carrier scattering is critical to the electrical properties of two-dimensional materials such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers, black phosphorene, and tellurene. Beyond pristine two-dimensional materials,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-14 Dongchao Xu , Shuang Tang , Xu Du , Qing Hao

We have studied temperature dependences of electron transport in graphene and its bilayer and found extremely low electron-phonon scattering rates that set the fundamental limit on possible charge carrier mobilities at room temperature. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-07 S. V. Morozov , K. S. Novoselov , M. I. Katsnelson , F. Schedin , D. C. Elias , J. A. Jaszczak , A. K. Geim

Carrier relaxation measurements in moir\'e materials offer a unique probe of the microscopic interactions, in particular the ones that are not easily measured by transport. Umklapp scattering between phonons is a ubiquitous…

The weak temperature dependence of the resistance R(T) of monolayer graphene1-3 indicates an extraordinarily high intrinsic mobility of the charge carriers. Important complications are the presence of mobile scattering centres that strongly…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-18 Viera Skakalova , Alan B. Kaiser , Jai Seung Yoo , Dirk Obergfell , Siegmar Roth

We design a hybrid graphene/hexagonal boron nitride superlattice monolayer and investigate its thermoelectric properties using density functional theory and Boltzmann transport equations with the relaxation time accurately treated by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-31 Zizhen Zhou , Huijun Liu , Dengdong Fan , Guohua Cao

Recently Kawashima has reported that, when wetted with alkanes, several forms of graphite and single-layer graphene exhibit superconductor-like properties above room temperature under ambient pressure [AIP Adv. 2013, 3, 052132;…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-16 Myung-Hwan Whangbo

We investigate quantum corrections to the conductivity due to the interference of electron-electron (electron-phonon) scattering and elastic electron scattering in weakly disordered conductors. The electron-electron interaction results in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Sergeev , M. Yu. Reizer , V. Mitin

The analysis of quantum corrections to magnetoconductivity of thin Au films responsible for by the effect of weak electron localization has made it possible to determine the temperature dependences of electron phase relaxation time in the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 B. I. Belevtsev , Yu. F. Komnik , E. Yu. Beliayev

Using the linearized Boltzmann transport equation and perturbation theory, we analyze the reduction in the intrinsic thermal conductivity of few-layer graphene sheets accounting for all possible three-phonon scattering events. Even with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Dhruv Singh , Jayathi Y. Murthy , Timothy S. Fisher

The electron-phonon and spin-phonon coupling in typical high-T_C cuprates, like LSCO and HBCO are peaked for just a few q-vectors because of the 2-dimensional Fermi surface shape. The activation of few spin-phonon modes compensates for the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-03-31 T. Jarlborg

The electron band structure of graphene on SrTiO3 substrate has been investigated as a function of temperature. The high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission study reveals that the spectral width at Fermi energy and the Fermi velocity of…

We examine the nature of the transitions between the normal and the superconducting branches of superconductor-graphene-superconductor Josephson junctions. We attribute the hysteresis between the switching (superconducting to normal) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 I. V. Borzenets , U. C. Coskun , H. T. Mebrahtu , Yu. V. Bomze , A. I. Smirnov , G. Finkelstein

Phonon scattering by electrons, or "phonon-electron scattering", has been recognized as a significant scattering channel for phonons in materials with high electron concentration, such as thermoelectrics and nanoelectronics, even at room…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-11 Sheng-Ying Yue , Runqing Yang , Bolin Liao

We report the enhancement of the thermoelectric power (TEP) in graphene with extremely low disorder. At high temperature we observe that the TEP is substantially larger than the prediction of the Mott relation, approaching to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Fereshte Ghahari , Hong-Yi Xie , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Matthew S. Foster , Philip Kim

The unique optical properties of graphene, with broadband absorption and ultrafast response, make it a critical component of optoelectronic and spintronic devices. Using time-resolved momentum microscopy with high data rate and high dynamic…

We study inelastic energy relaxation in graphene for low energies to find out how electrons scatter with acoustic phonons and other electrons. By coupling the graphene to superconductors, we create a strong dependence of the measured…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Juha Voutilainen , Aurelien Fay , Pasi Häkkinen , Janne K. Viljas , Tero T. Heikkilä , Pertti J. Hakonen

We theoretically calculate the phonon scattering limited electron mobility in extrinsic (i.e. gated or doped with a tunable and finite carrier density) 2D graphene layers as a function of temperature $(T)$ and carrier density $(n)$. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-12 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

In recent years, phonon electron carrier dragging has emerged as an innovative approach for modulating energy transfer in low dimensional systems. In this Letter, we explore the fundamental mechanisms of electron-phonon coupling and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Houssem Rezgui

It is known that electron scattering by surface polar phonons (SPPs) of the substrate reduces their mobility in supported graphene. However, there is no experimental evidence for contribution of drag of electrons by SPP to thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 S. V. Koniakhin , A. V. Nalitov

We present a review of theoretical investigations into the Kohn-Luttinger nonphonon superconductivity mechanism in various 3D and 2D repulsive electron systems described by the Fermi-gas, Hubbard, and Shubin-Vonsovsky models. Phase diagrams…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-11-26 M. Yu. Kagan , V. V. Val'kov , V. A. Mitskan , M. M. Korovushkin