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We study tunneling across a strain-induced superlattice in graphene. In studying the effect of applied strain on the low-lying Dirac-like spectrum, both a shift of the Dirac points in reciprocal space, and a deformation of the Dirac cones…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

We develop a theory of interaction effects in graphene superlattices, where tunable superlattice periodicity can be used as a knob to control the gap at the Dirac point. Applied to graphene on hexa-boron-nitride (G/h-BN), our theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-31 Justin C. W. Song , Andrey V. Shytov , Leonid S. Levitov

We study the electronic and transport properties of a graphene-based superlattice theoretically by using an effective Dirac equation. The superlattice consists of a periodic potential applied on a single-layer graphene deposited on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Jonas R. F. Lima

Rational design of artificial lattices yields effects unavailable in simple solids, and vertical superlattices of multilayer semiconductors are already used in optical sensors and emitters. Manufacturing lateral superlattices remains a much…

We show that, if graphene is subjected to the potential from an external superlattice, a band gap develops at the Dirac point provided the superlattice potential has broken inversion symmetry. As a numerical example, we calculate the band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Rakesh P Tiwari , D. Stroud

Strong band engineering in two-dimensional (2D) materials can be achieved by introducing moir\'e superlattices, leading to the emergence of various novel quantum phases with promising potential for future applications. Presented works to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 Shimin Cao , Mantang Chen , Jiang Zeng , Ning Ma , Runjie Zheng , Ya Feng , Shili Yan , Jing Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , X. C. Xie , Jian-Hao Chen

we have fabricated transparent electronic devices based on graphene materials with thickness down to one single atomic layer by the transfer printing method. The resulting printed graphene devices retain high field effect mobility and have…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-09-10 Jian-Hao Chen , Masa Ishigami , Chaun Jang , Daniel R. Hines , Michael S. Fuhrer , Ellen D. Williams

The dispersion relation for magnetoplasmons in a planar superlattice with periodically alternating regions of gapless and gapped modications of graphene has been derived within the frame of the random-phase approximation. The contribution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-05 P. V. Ratnikov

We investigate the magnetic properties of nano-holes (NHs) patterned in graphene using first principles calculations. We show that superlattices consisting of a periodic array of NHs form a new family of 2D crystalline "bulk" magnets whose…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-08-09 Decai Yu , Elizabeth M. Lupton , Miao Liu , Wei Liu , Feng Liu

We design a hybrid graphene/hexagonal boron nitride superlattice monolayer and investigate its thermoelectric properties using density functional theory and Boltzmann transport equations with the relaxation time accurately treated by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-31 Zizhen Zhou , Huijun Liu , Dengdong Fan , Guohua Cao

The detailed study of the graphene (gr) moir\'e superlattices emerging due to the mismatch between the substrate's and gr-overlayer crystal lattices is inevitable because of its high technological relevance. However, little is known about…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 P. Süle , M. Szendrő

Zigzag graphene nanoribbons patterned on graphane are studied using spin-polarized ab initio calculations. We found that the electronic and magnetic properties of the graphene/graphane superlattice strongly depends on the degree of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-19 A. D. Hernandez-Nieves , B. Partoens , F. M. Peeters

Graphene monolayers are known to display domains of anisotropic friction with twofold symmetry and anisotropy exceeding 200 percent. This anisotropy has been thought to originate from periodic nanoscale ripples in the graphene sheet, which…

This paper describes the behavior of top gated transistors fabricated using carbon, particularly epitaxial graphene on SiC, as the active material. In the past decade research has identified carbon-based electronics as a possible…

In this work we investigate theoretically the influence of a Fermi velocity modulation in the electronic and transport properties of magnetic graphene superlattices. We solve the effective Dirac equation for graphene with a position…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 Ícaro S. F. Bezerra , Jonas R. F. Lima

The mechanical and electronic properties of a graphene membrane placed on top of a superlattice of nanopillars are investigated. We use molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to access the deformation fields and the tight-binding approaches to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 S. P. Milovanovic , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

We study charge transport in one-dimensional graphene superlattices created by applying layered periodic and disordered potentials. It is shown that the transport and spectral properties of such structures are strongly anisotropic. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 Yury P. Bliokh , Valentin Freilikher , Sergey Savel'ev , Franco Nori

In heterostructures consisting of atomically thin crystals layered on top of one another, lattice mismatch or rotation between the layers results in long-wavelength moir\'e superlattices. These moir\'e patterns can drive significant band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Nathan R. Finney , Matthew Yankowitz , Lithurshanaa Muraleetharan , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Cory R. Dean , James Hone

Patterning graphene with a spatially-periodic potential provides a powerful means to modify its electronic properties. Dramatic effects have been demonstrated in twisted bilayers where coupling to the resulting moir\'e-superlattice yields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Yutao Li , Scott Dietrich , Carlos Forsythe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Pilkyung Moon , Cory R. Dean

We study transport properties of graphene nanostructures consisted of alternating slabs of gapless and gapped graphene in the presence of piecewise constant external potential equal to zero in the gapless regions. The transmission through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 E. S. Azarova , G. M. Maksimova