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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 low-energy effective Hamiltonian of the ABC-stacked multilayer graphene, pseudo spin coupling to real orbital angular momentum of electron in multilayer graphene is investigated. We show that electron wave function in N-layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-09 Worasak Prarokijjak , Bumned Soodchomshom

Motivated by our recent findings in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013902, 2022], which introduces a new class of electromagnetic bulk materials whose response is similar to conventional semiconductor transistors, here we propose a one-dimensional…

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…

Topological mechanical metamaterials have enabled new ways to control stress and deformation propagation. Exemplified by Maxwell lattices, they have been studied extensively using a linearized formalism. Herein, we study a two-dimensional…

We show that transport in low-dimensional carbon structures with finite concentrations of scatterers can be modeled by utilising scaling theory and effective cross sections. Our reults are based on large scale numerical simulations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-06 Andreas Uppstu , Karri Saloriutta , Ari Harju , Martti Puska , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Electrodynamic properties of the graphene - magnetic semiconductor - graphene sandwich-structure have been investigated theoretically with taking into account the dissipation processes. Influence of graphene layers on electromagnetic waves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-31 Dmitry A. Kuzmin , Igor V. Bychkov , Vladimir G. Shavrov

Nanoscience offers a unique opportunity to design modern materials from the bottom up, via low-cost, solution processed assembly of nanoscale building blocks. These systems promise electronic band structure engineering using not only the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-06 Yingjie Zhang , Youngseok Kim , Matthew J. Gilbert , Nadya Mason

We consider the effect of an array of plates or beams over a semi-infinite elastic ground on the propagation of elastic waves hitting the interface. The plates/beams are slender bodies with flexural resonances at low frequencies able to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Jean-Jacques Marigo , Kim Pham , Agnès Maurel , Sébastien Guenneau

In this paper we develop homogenization theory for spatiotemporally modulated wire medium. We first solve for the modal waves that are supported by this composite medium, we show peculiar properties such as extraordinary waves that…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Michael Kreiczer , Yakir Hadad

Applying the Helmholtz Decomposition theorem to linearized General Relativity leads to a gauge-invariant formulation where the transverse-traceless part of the metric perturbation describes gravitational waves in matter. Gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-19 NA Inan , JJ Thompson , RY Chiao

Artificial graphene consisting of honeycomb lattices other than the atomic layer of carbon has been shown to exhibit electronic properties similar to real graphene. Here, we reverse the argument to show that transport properties of real…

A method is proposed for the analysis of the propagation of electromagnetic waves through a homogeneous slab of a medium with Drude-Lorentz dispersion behavior, and excited by a causal sinusoidal source. An expression of the time dependent…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-13 Mohamed Ismail , Boris Gralak

This paper presents an application of time-frequency methods to characterize the dispersion of acoustic waves travelling in a one-dimensional periodic or disordered lattice made up of Helmholtz resonators connected to a cylindrical tube.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-07-10 Olivier Richoux , Claude Depollier , Jean Hardy

The speed of integrated circuits is ultimately limited by the mobility of electrons or holes, which depend on the effective mass in a semiconductor. Here, building on an analogy with electromagnetic metamaterials and transformation optics,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-31 Mario G. Silveirinha , Nader Engheta

By using analytical solution of a tight-binding model for armchair nanoribbons, it is confirmed that the solution represents the standing wave formed by intervalley scattering and that pseudospin is invariant under the scattering. The phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-14 K. Sasaki , K. Wakabayashi , T. Enoki

We introduce the stochastic band structure, a method giving the dispersion relation for waves propagating in periodic media or along waveguides, and subject to material loss or radiation damping. Instead of considering an explicit or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-06-30 Vincent Laude , Maria E. Korotyaeva

Electron transmission through different gated and gapped graphene superlattices (GSLs) is studied. Linear, Gaussian, Lorentzian and P\"oschl-Teller superlattice potential profiles have been assessed. A relativistic description of electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-11 A. Sánchez-Arellano , M. Madrigal-Melchor , I. Rodríguez-Vargas

Graphene antidot lattices have recently been proposed as a new breed of graphene-based superlattice structures. We study electronic properties of triangular antidot lattices, with emphasis on the occurrence of dispersionless (flat) bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-16 Mihajlo Vanevic , Vladimir M. Stojanovic , Markus Kindermann

One fundamental motivation to know the dispersive, or frequency dependent characteristics of localized surface plasmons (LSPs) supported by elliptical shaped particles wrapped with graphene sheet, as well as their scattering characteristics…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-24 Mauro Cuevas , Ricardo A. Depine