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Using full potential density functional theory calculations we have investigated the structural and electronic properties of graphene and some other graphene-like materials, viz., monolayer of SiC, GeC, BN, AlN, GaN, ZnO, ZnS and ZnSe. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-12 Gautam Mukhopadhyay , Harihar Behera

The long-wavelength physics of monolayer graphene in the presence of periodic strain fields has a natural chiral scattering network description. When the strain field varies slowly compared to the graphene lattice and the effective magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Christophe De Beule , Vo Tien Phong , E. J. Mele

Graphene and few-layer graphene at high bias expose a wealth of phenomena due to the high temperatures reached. With in-situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) we observe directly how the current modifies the structure, and vice versa.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-30 Amelia Barreiro , Felix Boerrnert , Mark H. Ruemmeli , Bernd Buechner , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen

The unique capabilities of capacitance measurements in bilayer graphene enable probing of layer-specific properties that are normally out of reach in transport measurements. Furthermore, capacitance measurements in the top-gate and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-02 Andrea F. Young , Leonid S. Levitov

Screening of charge impurities in graphene is analyzed using the exact solution for vacuum polarization obtained from the massless Dirac-Kepler problem. For the impurity charge below certain critical value no density perturbation is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-09 A. V. Shytov , M. I. Katsnelson , L. S. Levitov

Most experimental studies to date of multilayer epitaxial graphene on C-face SiC have indicated that the electronic states of different layers are decoupled as a consequence of rotational stacking. We have measured the third order nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Dong Sun , Julien Rioux , J. E. Sipe , Yang Zou , Momchil Mihnev , Claire Berger , Walt A. de Heer , Phillip N. First , Theodore B. Norris

Graphene placed in a magnetic field possesses an extremely high mid/far-infrared optical nonlinearity originating from its unusual band structure and selection rules for the optical transitions near the Dirac point. Here we study the linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-26 Xianghan Yao , Alexey Belyanin

Electrodynamics of single-layer graphene is studied in the scaling regime. At any finite temperature, there is a weakly damped collective thermo-plasma polariton mode whose dispersion and wavelength dependent damping is determined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Oskar Vafek

We theoretically propose to directly observe the chiral nature of charge carriers in graphene mono- and bilayers within a controlled scattering experiment. The charge located on a capacitively coupled scanning probe microscope (SPM) tip…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Matthias Braun , Luca Chirolli , Guido Burkard

Most non-ferroelectric two-dimensional materials can be endowed with so-called sliding ferroelectricity via non-equivalent homo-bilayer stacking, which is not applicable to mono-element systems like pure graphene bilayer with inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Liu Yang , Shiping Ding , Jinhua Gao , Menghao Wu

This article reviews progress in the theoretical modelling of the electronic structure of rotationally faulted multilayer graphenes. In these systems the crystallographic axes of neighboring layers are misaligned so that the layer stacking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 E. J. Mele

The carrier density and temperature dependence of the Hall mobility in mono-, bi- and tri-layer graphene has been systematically studied. We found that as the carrier density increases, the mobility decreases for mono-layer graphene, while…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Wenjuan Zhu , Vasili Perebeinos , Marcus Freitag , Phaedon Avouris

In this paper, we analytically investigate the electronic structure of Bernal stacking (AB stacking) graphene evolving from monolayer (a zero-gap semiconductor with a linear Dirac-like spectrum around the Fermi energy) to multi-layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. F. Wang , Huaixiu Zheng , Q. W. Shi , Jie Chen , Jinlong Yang , J. G. Hou

Experiments are finally revealing intricate facts about graphene which go beyond the ideal picture of relativistic Dirac fermions in pristine two dimensional (2D) space, two years after its first isolation. While observations of rippling…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Eun-Ah Kim , A. H. Castro Neto

Flexoelectricity phenomenon is the response of electric polarization to an applied strain gradient and is developed as a consequence of crystal symmetry in all materials. In this study, we show that the presence of strain gradient in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 S. I. Kundalwal , S. A. Meguid , G. J. Weng

The energy of arbitrary graphene edge is derived in analytical form. It contains a "chemical phase shift", determined by the chemical conditions at the edge. Direct atomistic computations support the universal nature of the relationship.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-06 Yuanyue Liu , Alex Dobrinsky , Boris I. Yakobson

We report a new method for quantitative estimation of graphene layer thicknesses using high contrast imaging of graphene films on insulating substrates with a scanning electron microscope. By detecting the attenuation of secondary electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-28 Vidya Kochat , Atindra Nath Pal , Sneha E. S. , Arjun B. S. , Anshita Gairola , S. A. Shivashankar , Srinivasan Raghavan , Arindam Ghosh

We present several applications of the layered electron gas model to electron energy loss spectroscopy of free-standing films consisting of $N$ graphene layers in a scanning transmission electron microscope. Using a two-fluid model for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 V. Borka Jovanović , I. Radović , D. Borka , Z. L. Mišković

Graphene has attracted significant interest both for exploring fundamental science and for a wide range of technological applications. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is currently the only working approach to grow graphene at wafer scale,…

In this Letter, both the manipulation of valley-polarized currents and the optical-like behaviors of Dirac fermions are theoretically explored in polycrystalline graphene. When strain is applied, the misorientation between two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Viet Hung Nguyen , Samuel Dechamps , Philippe Dollfus , Jean-Christophe Charlier