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For dielectric multilayered metamaterials, the effective-parameter representation is known to be insensitive to geometrical features occurring at deeply subwavelength scales. However, recent studies on periodic and aperiodically ordered…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Marino Coppolaro , Giuseppe Castaldi , Vincenzo Galdi

The propagation of charge carriers in graphene is compared to that in type II/III heterostructures for which a two-band Kane model is appropriate. In particular, conditions for a quantitative analogy between these two cases are searched…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Daniela Dragoman

Graphene is an ideal material to study fundamental Coulomb- and phonon-induced carrier scattering processes. Its remarkable gapless and linear band structure opens up new carrier relaxation channels. In particular, Auger scattering bridging…

Electrons and holes in clean, charge-neutral graphene behave like a strongly coupled relativistic liquid. The thermo-electric transport properties of the interacting Dirac quasiparticles are rather special, being constrained by an emergent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-23 Markus Mueller , Lars Fritz , Subir Sachdev , Joerg Schmalian

Non-diffusive effects in charge transport become relevant as device sizes and features become comparable to the electronic mean free path. As a model system, we investigate the electric transport around mesoscopic defects in graphene with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Toni Markovic , Wei Huang , William S. Huxter , Pietro Gambardella , Sebastian Stepanow

Electron transport in graphene under a laser-modulated barrier is studied in the presence of an energy gap, a scalar potential, and a uniaxial zigzag strain. The transfer-matrix approach is used with the boundary conditions to derive the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Hasna Chnafa , Clarence Cortes , David Laroze , Ahmed Jellal

Dirac energy-dispersions are responsible of the extraordinary transport properties of graphene. This motivated the quest for engineering such energy dispersions also in photonics, where they have been predicted to lead to many exciting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Erik P. Navarro-Barón , Herbert Vinck-Posada , Alejandro González-Tudela

We study the effect of extended charge defects in electronic transport properties of graphene. Extended defects are ubiquitous in chemically and epitaxially grown graphene samples due to internal strains associated with the lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-18 A. Ferreira , Xiangfan Xu , Chang-Lin Tan , Sukang Bae , N. M. R. Peres , Byung-Hee Hong , Barbaros Ozyilmaz , A. H. Castro Neto

By means of atomistic tight-binding calculations, we investigate the transport properties of vertical devices made of two incommensurately misoriented graphene layers. With a chosen transport direction (Ox-axis), we define two classes of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Viet Hung Nguyen , Philippe Dollfus

Graphene, a monolayer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal pattern, provides a unique two-dimensional (2D) system exhibiting exotic phenomena such as quantum Hall effects, massless Dirac quasiparticle excitations and universal absorption…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 K. M. Dani , J. Lee , R. Sharma , A. D. Mohite , C. M. Galande , P. M. Ajayan , A. M. Dattelbaum , H. Htoon , A. J. Taylor , R. P. Prasankumar

Van der Waals structures formed by aligning monolayer graphene with insulating layers of hexagonal boron nitride exhibit a moir\'e superlattice that is expected to break sublattice symmetry. Despite an energy gap of several tens of…

We numerically study the disorder effect on the thermoelectric and thermal transport for bilayer graphene under a strong perpendicular magnetic field. In the unbiased case, we find that the thermoelectric transport has similar properties as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. Ma , L. Zhu , L. Sheng , M. Liu , D. N Sheng

The dynamical approach is applied to ballistic transport in mesoscopic graphene samples of length L and contact potential U. At times shorter than both relevant time scales, the flight time and \hslash/U, the major effect of the electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Lewkowicz , B. Rosenstein , D. Nghiem

We study structural and electronic properties of graphene grown on SiC substrate using scanning tunneling microscope (STM), spot-profile-analysis low energy electron diffraction (SPA-LEED) and angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Lunan Huang , Yun Wu , M. T. Hershberger , Daixiang Mou , Ben Schrunk , Michael C. Tringides , Myron Hupalo , Adam Kaminski

The electronic transport properties and band structures for the graphene-based one-dimensional (1D) superlattices with periodic squared potentials are investigated. It is found that a new Dirac point is formed, which is exactly located at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-25 Li-Gang Wang , Shi-Yao Zhu

The charge carrier density in graphene on a dielectric substrate such as SiO$_2$ displays inhomogeneities, the so-called charge puddles. Because of the linear dispersion relation in monolayer graphene, the puddles are predicted to grow near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 S. Samaddar , I. Yudhistira , S. Adam , H. Courtois , C. B. Winkelmann

We report anomalous quantum transport features in bilayer graphene in presence of a random distribution of structural vacancies. By using an efficient real-space Kubo-Greenwood transport methodology, the impact of a varying density of dimer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-11 Dinh Van Tuan , Stephan Roche

The analytical expressions for both diagonal and off-diagonal ac and dc conductivities of graphene placed in an external magnetic field are derived. These conductivities exhibit rather unusual behavior as functions of frequency, chemical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. P. Gusynin , S. G. Sharapov

Graphene bilayer systems are known to exhibit a band gap when the layer symmetry is broken, by applying a perpendicular electric field. The resulting band structure resembles that of a conventional semiconductor with a parabolic dispersion.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Søren Schou Gregersen , Jesper Goor Pedersen , Stephen R. Power , Antti-Pekka Jauho

We develop a microscopic theory of an unconventional photogalvanic effect in two-dimensional materials with the Dirac energy spectrum of the carriers of charge under strong driving. As a test bed, we consider a layer of a transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 V. M. Kovalev , I. G. Savenko