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High-reflectance in many state-of-the-art optical devices is achieved with noble metals. However, metals are limited by losses, and for certain applications, by their high mass density. Using a combination of ab initio and optical transfer…

At low energies, electrons in doped graphene sheets are described by a massless Dirac fermion Hamiltonian. In this work we present a semi-analytical expression for the dynamical density-density linear-response function of noninteracting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. R. Ramezanali , M. M. Vazifeh , Reza Asgari , Marco Polini , A. H. MacDonald

Graphene decorated with 5d transitional metal atoms is predicted to exhibit many intriguing properties; for example iridium adatoms are proposed to induce a substantial topological gap in graphene. We extensively investigated the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-18 Yilin Wang , Shudong Xiao , Xinghan Cai , Wenzhong Bao , Janice Reutt-Robey , Michael S. Fuhrer

Unlike in conventional semiconductors, both the chemical potential and the band gap in bilayer graphene (BLG) can be tuned via application of external electric field. Among numerous device implications, this property also designates BLG as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Dominik Suszalski , Grzegorz Rut , Adam Rycerz

We report that 30-inch scale multiple roll-to-roll transfer and wet chemical doping considerably enhance the electrical properties of the graphene films grown on roll-type Cu substrates by chemical vapor deposition. The resulting graphene…

We investigate the thermal conductivity of suspended graphene as a function of the density of defects, ND, introduced in a controllable way. Graphene layers are synthesized using chemical vapor deposition, transferred onto a transmission…

Point sources exhibit low threshold electron emission due to local field enhancement at the tip. The development and implementation of tip emitters have been hampered by the need to position them sufficiently apart to achieve field…

The experimental availability of ultra-high-mobility samples of graphene opens the possibility to realize and study experimentally the "hydrodynamic" regime of the electron liquid. In this regime the rate of electron-electron collisions is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Principi , Giovanni Vignale

Two-dimensional (2D) materials represented by graphene stand out in future electrical industry and have been widely studied. As a commonly existing factor in electronic devices, the electric field has been extensively utilized to modulate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 E Zhou , Donghai Wei , Jing Wu , Guangzhao Qin , Ming Hu

Among the many anticipated applications of graphene, some - such as transistors for Si microelectronics - would greatly benefit from the possibility to deposit graphene directly on a semiconductor grown on a Si wafer. We report that Ge(001)…

Isolated, atomically thin conducting membranes of graphite, called graphene, have recently been the subject of intense research with the hope that practical applications in fields ranging from electronics to energy science will emerge.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 S. Garaj , W. Hubbard , A. Reina , J. Kong , D. Branton , J. A. Golovchenko

The low-temperature thermal conductivity in polycrystalline graphene is theoretically studied. The contributions from three branches of acoustic phonons are calculated by taking into account scattering on sample borders, point defects and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 D. V. Kolesnikov , V. A. Osipov

This article reviews recent research for development of sensitive graphene photon detectors in the infrared/far infrared/THz range. For this range, graphene has promising potential in thermal photon detectors. Graphene has ultra-small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-20 Xu Du , Daniel E. Prober , Heli Vora , Chris Mckitterick

We have investigated the absorption spectrum of multilayer graphene in high magnetic fields. The low energy part of the spectrum of electrons in graphene is well described by the relativistic Dirac equation with a linear dispersion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Plochocka , C. Faugeras , M. Orlita , M. L. Sadowski , G. Martinez , M. Potemski , M. O. Goerbig , J. -N. Fuchs , C. Berger , W. A. de Heer

A generalized Dirac equation is derived in order to describe charge carriers moving in corrugated graphene, which is the case for temperatures above 10{\deg}K due to the presence of flexural phonons. Such interaction is taken into account…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-12 Richard Kerner , Gerardo Naumis

The structure of a graphene monolayer on Ir(111) has been investigated {\it in situ} in the growth chamber by surface x-ray diffraction including the specular rod, which allows disentangling the effect of the sample roughness from that of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Fabien Jean , Tao Zhou , Nils Blanc , Roberto Felici , Johann Coraux , Gilles Renaud

Molecular dynamics simulation is used to study thermally activated migration of hydrogen atoms in graphone, a magnetic semiconductor formed of a graphene monolayer with one side covered with hydrogen so that hydrogen atoms are adsorbed on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. I. Podlivaev , L. A. Openov

The nature of electron correlations in bilayer graphene has been investigated. An analytic expression for the radial distribution function is derived for an ideal electron gas and the corresponding static structure factor is evaluated. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. S. L. Abergel , Tapash Chakraborty

The low energy physics of both graphene and surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators is described by gapless Dirac fermions with linear dispersion. In this work, we predict the emergence of a "heavy" Dirac fermion in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Wendong Cao , Rui-Xing Zhang , Peizhe Tang , Gang Yang , Jorge Sofo , Wenhui Duan , Chao-Xing Liu

We calculate the thermopower of monolayer graphene in various circumstances. First we show that experiments on the thermopower of graphene can be understood quantitatively with a very simple model of screening in the semiclassical limit. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-14 Aavishkar A. Patel , Subroto Mukerjee