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Carbon-based nanostructures and graphene, in particular, evoke a lot of interest as new promising materials for nanoelectronics and spintronics. One of the most important issue in this context is the impact of external electrodes on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-16 S. Krompiewski

Crystallographic alignment between two-dimensional crystals in van der Waals heterostructures brought a number of profound physical phenomena, including observation of Hofstadter butterfly and topological currents, and promising novel…

In molecular electronic conduction, exotic lattice morphologies often give rise to exotic behaviors. Among 2D systems, graphene is a notable example. Recently, a stable amorphous version of graphene called Monolayer Amorphous Carbon (MAC)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Nicolas Gastellu , Michael Kilgour , Lena Simine

The electronic properties of moir\'e heterostructures depend sensitively on the relative orientation between layers of the stack. For example, near-magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) commonly shows superconductivity, yet a TBG…

The chapter generalizes results on influence of uniaxial strain and adsorption on the electron states and charge transport or localization in graphene with different configurations of imperfections (point defects): resonant (neutral)…

Graphene, as an atomic-thick ultrasoft membrane, almost has no resistance against out-of-plane deformations and, therefore, it is always wrinkled to a certain degree. Recently, corrugated structures and their effects on the electronic…

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We use ab initio density functional calculations to determine the interaction of a graphene monolayer with the Si(111) surface. We found that graphene forms strong bonds to the bare substrate and accommodates the 12% lattice mismatch by…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-15 Ceren Tayran , Zhen Zhu , Matteo Baldoni , Daniele Selli , Gotthard Seifert , David Tománek

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are designed to extract latent patterns from graph-structured data, making them particularly well suited for crystal representation learning. Here, we propose a GNN model tailored for estimating electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-07 Yuxuan Zeng , Wei Cao , Yijing Zuo , Fang Lyu , Wenhao Xie , Tan Peng , Yue Hou , Ling Miao , Ziyu Wang , Jing Shi

Grain boundaries (GBs) are ubiquitous in polycrystalline graphene materials obtained by various growth methods. It has been shown previously that considerable electrical transport gap can be opened by grain boundaries. On the other hand,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-31 S. Bala Kumar , Jing Guo

Graphene and topological insulators (TI) possess two-dimensional Dirac fermions with distinct physical properties. Integrating these two Dirac materials in a single device creates interesting opportunities for exploring new physics of…

This review on graphene, a one atom thick, two-dimensional sheet of carbon atoms, starts with a general description of the graphene electronic structure as well as a basic experimental toolkit for identifying and handling this material.…

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Graphene multilayers are grown epitaxially on single crystal silicon carbide. This system is composed of several graphene layers of which the first layer is electron doped due to the built-in electric field and the other layers are…

Angle-resolved photoemission and X-ray diffraction experiments show that multilayer epitaxial graphene grown on the SiC(000-1) surface is a new form of carbon that is composed of effectively isolated graphene sheets. The unique rotational…

By stacking various two-dimensional (2D) atomic crystals [1] on top of each other, it is possible to create multilayer heterostructures and devices with designed electronic properties [2-5]. However, various adsorbates become trapped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-06 S. J. Haigh , A. Gholinia , R. Jalil , S. Romani , L. Britnell , D. C. Elias , K. S. Novoselov , L. A. Ponomarenko , A. K. Geim , R. Gorbachev

In the context of graphene-based composite applications, a complete understanding of charge conduction in multilayer reduced graphene oxides (rGO) is highly desirable. However, these rGO compounds are characterized by multiple and different…

As the Fermi level and band structure of two-dimensional materials are readily tunable, they constitute an ideal platform for exploring Lifshitz transition, a change in the topology of a material's Fermi surface. Using tetralayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 Yanmeng Shi , Shi Che , Kuan Zhou , Supeng Ge , Ziqi Pi , Timothy Espiritu , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Yafis Barlas , Roger Lake , Chun Ning Lau

Graphene-based nanostructures exhibit a vast range of exciting electronic properties that are absent in extended graphene. For example, quantum confinement in carbon nanotubes and armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) leads to the opening…

Graphene is a sturdy and chemically inert material exhibiting an exposed two-dimensional electron gas of high mobility. These combined properties enable the design of graphene composites either based on covalent or non- covalent coupling of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Adrien Allain , Zheng Han , Vincent Bouchiat

The creation of multilayer graphene (Gr), while preserving the brilliant properties of monolayer Gr derived from its unique band structure, can expand the application field of Gr to the macroscale. However, the energy-favorable AB stacking…

Two-dimensional (2D) crystals, such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and transitional metal dichalcogenides, have attracted tremendous amount of attention over the past decade due to their extraordinary thermal, electrical and optical…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-16 Y. Zhao , Z. Wan , U. Hetmaniuk , M. P. Anantram