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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

Accumulative Roll Bonding(ARB) process was used to develop few-layer graphene nano platelets reinforced aluminum matrix (GNPs/Al) composite in the form of sheets. Annealed Al sheets were ARB processed up to 6 pass along with coating of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-07-03 Jitendar K Tiwari , Ajay Mandal , N Sathish , Venkat A N Ch , A K Srivastava

We show that it is possible to realize significant nonlinear optical interactions at the few photon level in graphene nanostructures. Our approach takes advantage of the electric field enhancement associated with the strong confinement of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-11 M. Gullans , D. E. Chang , F. H. L. Koppens , F. J. García de Abajo , M. D. Lukin

This review provides a critical overview of current developments on nanoelectronic biochemical sensors based on graphene. Composed of a single layer of conjugated carbon atoms, graphene has outstanding high carrier mobility and low…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-14 Xiaoyan Zhang , Qiushi Jing , Shen Ao , Grégory F. Schneider , Dmitry Kireev , Zhengjun Zhang , Wangyang Fu

We carry out an explicit calculation of the vacuum polarization tensor for an effective low-energy model of monolayer graphene in the presence of a weak magnetic field of intensity $B$ perpendicularly aligned to the membrane. By expanding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 David Valenzuela , Saúl Hernández-Ortiz , Marcelo Loewe , Alfredo Raya

Opto-electronic devices utilizing graphene have already demonstrated unique capabilities, which are much more difficult to realize with conventional technologies. However, the requirements in terms of material quality and uniformity are…

Graphene covered metal nanoparticles constitute a novel type of hybrid materials, which provide a unique platform to study plasmonic effects, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), and metal-graphene interactions at the nanoscale. Such a…

Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons are a promising emerging class of designer quantum materials with electronic properties that are tunable by chemical design. However, many challenges remain in the device integration of these…

Ballistic semiconductor structures have allowed the realization of optics-like phenomena in electronics, including magnetic focusing and lensing. An extension that appears unique to graphene is to use both n and p carrier types to create…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-27 J. R. Williams , Tony Low , M. S. Lundstrom , C. M. Marcus

Graphene-derived nanomaterials are emerging as ideal candidates for postsilicon electronics. Elucidating the electronic interaction between an insulating substrate and few-layer graphene (FLG) films is crucial for device applications. Here,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-05-08 Sujit S. Datta , Douglas R. Strachan , E. J. Mele , A. T. Charlie Johnson

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are atomically precise stripes of graphene with tunable electronic properties, making them promising for room-temperature switching applications like field-effect transistors (FETs). However, challenges persist…

The use of Floquet theory combined with a realistic description of the electronic structure of illuminated graphene and graphene nanoribbons is developed to assess the emergence of non-adiabatic and non-perturbative effects on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-13 Hernan L. Calvo , Pablo M. Perez-Piskunow , Horacio M. Pastawski , Stephan Roche , Luis E. F. Foa Torres

A computational method is developed whereby the reflectivity of low-energy electrons from a surface can be obtained from a first-principles solution of the electronic structure of the system. The method is applied to multilayer graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 R. M. Feenstra , M. Widom

The richness of optical and electronic properties of graphene attracts enormous interest. Graphene has high mobility and optical transparency, in addition to flexibility, robustness and environmental stability. So far, the main focus has…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 F. Bonaccorso , Z. Sun , T. Hasan , A. C. Ferrari

Graphene on noble-metal nanostructures constitutes an attractive nanocomposite with possible applications in sensors or energy conversion. In this work we study the properties of hybrid graphene/gold nanoparticle structures by Raman…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-14 András Pálinkás , Péter Kun , Antal A. Koós , Zoltán Osváth

Optical neural networks are at the forefront of computational innovation, utilizing photons as the primary carriers of information and employing optical components for computation. However, the fundamental nonlinear optical device in the…

Graphene is an ideal material for optoelectronic applications. Its photonic properties give several advantages and complementarities over Si photonics. For example, graphene enables both electro-absorption and electro-refraction modulation…

We investigated the atomic structures, Raman spectroscopic and electrical transport properties of individual graphene nanoribbons (GNRs, widths ~10-30 nm) derived from sonochemical unzipping of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs).…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-06-21 Liming Xie , Hailiang Wang , Chuanhong Jin , Xinran Wang , Liying Jiao , Kazu Suenaga , Hongjie Dai

An application of quantum size carbon structures--graphenes as electrodes of supercapacitors is studied. A fundamental limit of energy and power density arising from quantum nature of objects due to singularity in graphene density of states…

Graphene has shown great application opportunities in future nanoelectronic devices due to its outstanding electronic properties. Moreover, its impressive optical properties have been attracting the interest of researchers, and, recently,…