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Graphene has exceptional optical, mechanical and electrical properties, making it an emerging material for novel optoelectronics, photonics and for flexible transparent electrode applications. However, the relatively high sheet resistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-06 Guang-Xin Ni , Yi Zheng , Sukang Bae , Chin Yaw Tan , Orhan Kahya , Jing Wu , Byung Hee Hong , Kui Yao , Barbaros Özyilmaz

For many of the envisioned optoelectronic applications of graphene it is crucial to understand the sub-picosecond carrier dynamics immediately following photoexcitation, as well as the effect on the electrical conductivity - the…

In this paper, we evaluate of the adsorption/ desorption of ammonia molecules on a graphene surface by studying the Fermi level shift. Based on a physically plausible model, the adsorption and desorption rates of ammonia molecules on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Shanshan Chen , Weiwei Cai , David Chen , Yujie Ren , Xuesong Li , Yanwu Zhu , Rodney S. Ruoff

We address spin polarization dependence of graphene's Fermi liquid properties quantitatively using a microscopic Random Phase Approximation theory in an interacting spin-polarized Dirac electron system. We show an enhancement of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Kh. Jahanbani , Reza Asgari

We experimentally demonstrate a simple graphene/ ferrolectric device, termed Ferrotronic (electronic effect from ferroelectric) device in which the band-structure of single-layer graphene is modified. The device architecture consists of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Qifang Wan , Zhuocong Xiao , Ahmed Kursumovic , Judith. L. MacManus-Driscoll , Colm Durkan

We study fluctuations of the conductance of micron-sized graphene devices as a function of the Fermi energy and magnetic field. The fluctuations are studied in combination with analysis of weak localization which is determined by the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. W. Horsell , A. K. Savchenko , F. V. Tikhonenko , K. Kechedzhi , I. V. Lerner , V. I. Fal'ko

Motivated by the idea of smart metasurfaces, we will demonstrate a graphene-based tunable absorber in which perfect absorption can be achieved for all angles of incidence, only by tuning the Fermi level of graphene. We place an unpatterned…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-03-23 Xu-Chen Wang , Sergei A. Tretyakov

We study how the Fermi energy of a graphene monolayer separated from a conducting substrate by a dielectric spacer depends on the properties of the substrate and on an applied voltage. An analytical model is developed that describes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-21 Menno Bokdam , Petr A. Khomyakov , Geert Brocks , Paul J. Kelly

We calculate the chemical potential dependence of the renormalized Fermi velocity and static dielectric function for Dirac quasiparticles in graphene nonperturbatively at finite temperature. By reinterpreting the chemical potential as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Christian Fräßdorf , Johannes E. M. Mosig

The band structure and transport properties of massive Dirac Fermions in bilayer graphene with velocity modulation in space are investigated in presence of the previously created band gap. It is pointed out that the velocity engineering is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-27 Hosein Cheraghchi , Fatemeh Adinehvand

We propose a directional switching effect in a metallic device. To such end we exploit a graphene-based device with a three-terminal geometry in the presence of a magnetic field. We show that unidirectional charge and valley currents can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 M. Berdakin , J. E. Barrios Vargas , L. E. F. Foa Torres

The effect of charge-carrier screening on the transport properties of a neutral graphene sheet is studied by directly probing its electronic structure. We find that the Fermi velocity, Dirac point velocity, and overall distortion of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 David A. Siegel , William Regan , Alexei V. Fedorov , A. Zettl , Alessandra Lanzara

The electronic and transport properties of aluminum-graphene composite materials were investigated using ab initio plane wave density functional theory. The interfacial structure is reported for several configurations. In some cases, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-12 K. Nepal , C. Ugwumadu , K. N. Subedi , K. Kappagantula , D. A. Drabold

We have achieved mobilities in excess of 200,000 cm^2/Vs at electron densities of ~2*10^11 cm^-2 by suspending single layer graphene. Suspension ~150 nm above a Si/SiO_2 gate electrode and electrical contacts to the graphene was achieved by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. I. Bolotin , K. J. Sikes , Z. Jiang , M. Klima , G. Fudenberg , J. Hone , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer

We have fabricated a centimeter-size single-layer graphene device, with a gate electrode, which can modulate the transmission of terahertz and infrared waves. Using time-domain terahertz spectroscopy and Fourier-transform infrared…

The aim of this work is to study the electron transport in graphene with impurities by introducing a generalization of linear response theory for linear dispersion relations and spinor wave functions. Current response and density response…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 Juan Sebastian Ardenghi , Pablo Bechthold , Paula Jasen , Estela Gonzalez , Alfredo Juan

Phase coherence of charge carriers leads to electron-wave interference in ballistic mesoscopic conductors. In graphene, such Fabry-P\'erot-like interference has been observed, but a detailed analysis has been complicated by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-16 Mika Oksanen , Andreas Uppstu , Antti Laitinen , Daniel J. Cox , Monica Craciun , Saverio Russo , Ari Harju , Pertti Hakonen

The entire graphene field-effect-transistor (FET) devices first fabricated on SiO2/Si are peeled from the surface and placed on a different wafer. Both longitudinal and transverse resistivity measurements of the devices before and after the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Raymond Sachs , Zhisheng Lin , Patrick Odenthal , Roland Kawakami , Jing Shi

We investigate the problem of dynamical gap generation in suspended graphene by long-range Coulomb interactions at strong coupling with Dyson-Schwinger equations. Including renormalization effects on the Fermi velocity we obtain a critical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-12 C. Popovici , C. S. Fischer , L. von Smekal

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