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The Raman shift, broadening, and relative Raman intensities of bilayer graphene are computed as functions of the electron concentration. We include dynamic effects for the phonon frequencies and we consider the gap induced in the band…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-11 Paola Gava , Michele Lazzeri , A. Marco Saitta , Francesco Mauri

Graphene is one of the stiffest known materials, with a Young's modulus of 1 TPa, making it an ideal candidate for use as a reinforcement in high-performance composites. However, being a one-atom thick crystalline material, graphene poses…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-13 L. Gong , I. A. Kinloch , R. J. Young , I. Riaz , R. Jalil , K. S. Novoselov

Graphene, a thinnest material in the world, can form moire structures on different substrates, including graphite, h-BN, or metal surfaces. In such systems the structure of graphene, i. e. its corrugation, as well as its electronic and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 Elena Voloshina , Yuriy Dedkov

Graphene nanoribbons present diverse electronic properties ranging from semiconducting to half-metallic, depending on their geometry, dimensions and chemical composition. Here we present a route to control these properties via externally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Oded Hod , Gustavo E. Scuseria

Friction is a ubiquitous phenomenon that greatly affects our everyday lives and is responsible for large amounts of energy loss in industrialised societies. Layered materials such as graphene have interesting frictional properties and are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 David Andersson , Astrid S. de Wijn

The contact strength, adhesion and friction, between graphene and an incommensurate crystalline substrate such as {\it h}-BN depends on their relative alignment angle $\theta$. The well established Novaco-McTague (NM) theory predicts for a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-29 Roberto Guerra , Merel van Wijk , Andrea Vanossi , Annalisa Fasolino , Erio Tosatti

The graphene membrane irradiated by weak activating alternative electric field in terahertz range was considered. The quantum approach based on the time-dependent density matrix method was used. The exact solution was obtained for graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 N. E. Firsova , Yu. A. Firsov

The resistance to failure through tearing is a crucial mechanical property for the application of different elastomers. In this work, graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) were introduced into a fluoroelastomer (FKM) matrix with the aim of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-26 Mufeng Liu , Jason H. Hui , Ian A. Kinloch , Robert J. Young , Dimitrios G. Papageorgiou

The directional control of light in miniaturized plasmonic waveguides holds appealing possibilities for emerging nanophotonic technologies, but is hindered by the intrinsic reciprocal optical response of conventional plasmonic materials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri , F. Javier García de Abajo , Joel D. Cox

The linear electronic dispersion relation of graphene endows the atomically thin carbon layer with a large intrinsic optical nonlinearity, with regard to both parametric and photothermal processes. While plasmons in graphene nanostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Line Jelver , Joel D. Cox

Wrinkles in monolayer graphene (GN) affect the GN electronic and transport properties. Defined network of wrinkles can be reached by placing the GN on the substrate decorated with the nanoparticles (NPs). In order to explain mechanism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-02 Barbara Pacakova , Jana Vejpravova , Anton Repko , Alice Mantlikova , Martin Kalbac

Two different points of view are available to understand the behavior of graphene at low energies. One is considering a large $N_F$ that makes graphene a semimetal, and another for small $N_F < 2.5$ that would make graphene a narrow gap…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-18 N. García , P. Esquinazi , A. A. Pasa

Using the renormalized-ring-diagram approximation, we study the compressibility of the interacting electrons in bilayer graphene. The compressibility is equivalent to the spin susceptibility apart from a constant factor. The chemical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

We theoretically compared quantum noise squeezing differences between silicon and graphene nanoresonators based on experimental structure parameters. The conditions to achieve squeezed states of silicon and graphene have been discussed.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-31 Sheping Yan , Yang Xu , Zhonghe Jin , Yuelin Wang

We present ab initio theory for electron reflection spectroscopy of few-layer graphene for arbitrary angles of incidence. The inelastic effects are included in a consistent way using the optical potential retrieved from ab initio…

This paper is devoted to development of perturbation theory for studying the properties of graphene sheet of finite size, at nonzero temperature and chemical potential. The perturbation theory is based on the tight-binding Hamiltonian and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-16 N. Yu. Astrakhantsev , V. V. Braguta , M. I. Katsnelson

The symmetry group analysis is applied to classify the phonon modes of $N$-stacked graphene layers (NSGL's) with AB- and AA-stacking, particularly their infra-red and Raman properties. The dispersions of various phonon modes are calculated…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-06-30 Jin-Wu Jiang , Hui Tang , Bing-Shen Wang , Zhao-Bin Su

Two processes have been proposed to fabricate graphene/NiFe alloy interfaces for tunneling magnetoresistance devices. One is the transfer of graphene and the other is the evaporation of alloys onto graphene. The formation energy of a NiFe…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Naohiro Matsumoto , Ryusuke Endo , Mitsuharu Uemoto , Tomoya Ono

We investigated the vibrational properties of graphene nanoribbons by means of first-principles calculations on the basis of density functional theory. We confirm that the phonon modes of graphene nanoribbons with armchair and zigzag type…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Roland Gillen , Marcel Mohr , Janina Maultzsch , Christian Thomsen

We investigate twisted bilayer graphene near charge neutrality using a generalized Bistritzer-MacDonald continuum model, accounting for corrugation effects. The Fermi velocity vanishes for particular twist angles properly reproducing the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-07 Eric Brillaux , David Carpentier , Andrei A. Fedorenko , Lucile Savary