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We consider the effect of uniaxial strain on ballistic transport in graphene, across single and multiple tunneling barriers. Specifically, we show that applied strain not only shifts the position of the Dirac points in reciprocal space, but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-04 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

As most materials available in macroscopic quantities, graphene appears in a polycrystalline form and thus contains grain boundaries. In the present work, the effect of uniaxial strain on the electronic transport properties through graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-07 Viet Hung Nguyen , Trinh Xuan Hoang , Philippe Dollfus , Jean-Christophe Charlier

We evaluate the optical reflectivity for a uniaxially strained graphene single layer between a SiO2 substrate and air. A tight binding model for the band dispersion of graphene is employed. As a function of the strain modulus and direction,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-04 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

The main goal of our study was investigation of the influence of the deformations (sufficiently large for the establishing the non-zero gap) on electrotransport properties of impure graphene. To achieve this purpose, we implemented the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Igor Yu. Sagalianov , Yuriy I. Prylutskyy , Taras M. Radchenko , Valentyn A. Tatarenko

To address the robustness of the transport gap induced by locally strained regions in graphene nanostructures, the effect of disorder and smoothness of the interface region is investigated within the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 D. A. Bahamon , Vitor M. Pereira

Uniaxial strain is known to modify significantly the electronic properties of graphene, a carbon single layer of atomic width. Here, we study the effect of applied strain on the composite excitations arising from the coupling of charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

We investigate the effects of uniaxial strain on the transport properties of vertical devices made of two twisted graphene layers, which partially overlap each other. We find that because of the different orientations of the two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Viet Hung Nguyen , Huy-Viet Nguyen , Jerome Saint Martin , Philippe Dollfus

We study electron transport in a strained graphene sheet subjected to a sequence of $N$ electrostatic and magnetic barriers. Employing a modified and improved transfer-matrix framework, we examine how the transmission and reflection…

We study the dependence on the strength and orientation of applied uniaxial strain of the Drude weight in the conductivity of graphene. We find a nonmonotonic dependence on strain, which may be related to the proximity to several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-18 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

The optical conductivity of graphene strained uniaxially is studied within the Kubo-Greenwood formalism. Focusing on inter-band absorption, we analyze and quantify the breakdown of universal transparency in the visible region of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-17 Vitor M. Pereira , R. M. Ribeiro , N. M. R. Peres , A. H. Castro Neto

There is a wide range of science and applications accessible via the strain engineering of quantum transport in 2D materials. We propose a realistic experimental platform for uniaxial strain engineering of ballistic charge transport in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 A. C. McRae , G. Wei , A. R. Champagne

Two-dimensional materials (2DMs) are fundamentally electro-mechanical systems. Their environment unavoidably strains them and modifies their quantum transport properties. For instance, a simple uniaxial strain could completely turn off the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 A. C. McRae , G. Wei , L. Huang , S. Yigen , V. Tayari , A. R. Champagne

We induced periodic biaxial tensile strain in polycrystalline graphene by wrapping it over a substrate with repeating pillar-like structures with a periodicity of 600 nm. Using Raman spectroscopy, we determined to have introduced biaxial…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-09 Marjan Aslani , C. Michael Garner , Suhas Kumar , Dennis Nordlund , Piero Pianetta , Yoshio Nishi

By means of numerical simulation, we study in this work the effects of uniaxial strain on transport properties of strained graphene heterojunctions and explore the possibility to achieve good performance of graphene transistors using these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-03 Viet Hung Nguyen , Huy Viet Nguyen , Philippe Dollfus

We study the effects of uniaxial strains on the transport properties of the graphene nanoribbons(GNRs) connected with two metallic leads in heterojunctions, using the transfer matrix method. Two typical GNRs with zigzag and armchair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jing Wang , Guiping Zhang , Fei Ye , Xiaoqun Wang

We investigate the combined influence of structural defects and uniaxial longitudinal strain on the electronic transport properties of armchair graphene nanoribbons using the numerical approach based on the semiempirical tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-30 Thomas Lehmann , Dmitry A. Ryndyk , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

The peculiar nature of electron scattering in graphene is among many exciting theoretical predictions for the physical properties of this material. To investigate electron scattering properties in a graphene plane, we have created a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 B. Huard , J. A. Sulpizio , N. Stander , K. Todd , B. Yang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

An introduction to the transport properties of graphene combining experimental results and theoretical analysis is presented. In the theoretical description simple intuitive models are used to illustrate important points on the transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-29 N. M. R. Peres

Graphene is a mechanically robust 2D material promising for flexible optoelectronic applications. However, its electromagnetic properties under strain are experimentally poorly understood. Here we present the far-infrared transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-22 Manisha Chhikara , Iaroslav Gaponenko , Patrycja Paruch , Alexey. B. Kuzmenko

Electron transport in graphene under a laser-modulated barrier is studied in the presence of an energy gap, a scalar potential, and a uniaxial zigzag strain. The transfer-matrix approach is used with the boundary conditions to derive the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Hasna Chnafa , Clarence Cortes , David Laroze , Ahmed Jellal
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