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Interfacial interactions allow the electronic properties of graphene to be modified, as recently demonstrated by the appearance of satellite Dirac cones in the band structure of graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrates. Ongoing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Zhe Wang , Dong-Keun Ki , Hua Chen , Helmuth Berger , Allan H. MacDonald , Alberto F. Morpurgo

In this paper, we study the morphologic interaction between graphene and Si nanowires on a SiO2 substrate, using molecular mechanics simulations. Two cases are considered: 1) a graphene nanoribbon intercalated by a single Si nanowire on a…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-21 Zhao Zhang , Teng Li

Graphene on $L1_0$-FePd(001), which has been experimentally studied in recent years, is a heterogeneous interface with a significant lattice symmetry mismatch between the honeycomb structure of graphene and tetragonal alloy surface. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-14 Mitsuharu Uemoto , Hayato Adachi , Hiroshi Naganuma , Tomoya Ono

The success of all-graphene electronics is severely hindered by the challenging realization and subsequent integration of semiconducting channels and metallic contacts. Here, we comprehensively investigate the electronic transport across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Kristiāns Čerņevičs , Oleg V. Yazyev , Michele Pizzochero

We study the electronic and transport properties of heterostructures formed by armchair graphene nanoribbons with intersections of finite length. We describe the system by a tight-binding model and calculate the density of states and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-19 L. Rosales , P. Orellana , Z. Barticevic , M. Pacheco

Quantum transport properties in molecularly thin perovskite/graphene heterostructure are experimentally investigated by Shubnikov-de Hass (SdH) oscillation and photo-resistance spectroscopy. We find an efficient charge transfer between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Yan Sun , C. Morice , D. Garrot , R. Weil , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. Monteverde , A. D. Chepelianskii

Graphene, the two-dimensional form of carbon presents outstanding electronic and transport properties. This gives hope for the development of applications in nanoelectronics. However, for industrial purpose, graphene has to be supported by…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 L. Magaud , F. Hiebel , F. Varchon , P. Mallet , J. -Y. Veuillen

Nanostructuring of graphene is in part motivated by the requirement to open a gap in the electronic band structure. In particular, a periodically perforated graphene sheet in the form of an antidot lattice may have such a gap. Such systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-09 Stephen R. Power , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Two processes have been proposed to fabricate graphene/NiFe alloy interfaces for tunneling magnetoresistance devices. One is the transfer of graphene and the other is the evaporation of alloys onto graphene. The formation energy of a NiFe…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-23 Naohiro Matsumoto , Ryusuke Endo , Mitsuharu Uemoto , Tomoya Ono

Intercalation of epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001) with Sn results in a well-ordered Sn $(1\times1)$ structure on the SiC surface with quasi-freestanding graphene on top. While the electronic properties of the individual layers have been…

We report the structural and electronic properties of an artificial graphene/Ni(111) system obtained by the intercalation of a monoatomic layer of Ni in graphene/Ir(111). Upon intercalation, Ni grows epitaxially on Ir(111), resulting in a…

Electronic decoupling of graphene from metallic and semiconducting substrates via intercalation of different species is one of the widely used approaches in studies of graphene. In the present work the modification of the electronic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-24 Yong Zhou , Roman Ovcharenko , Beate Paulus , Yuriy Dedkov , Elena Voloshina

Measuring the transport of electrons through a graphene sheet necessarily involves contacting it with metal electrodes. We study the adsorption of graphene on metal substrates using first-principles calculations at the level of density…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 P. A. Khomyakov , G. Giovannetti , P. C. Rusu , G. Brocks , J. van den Brink , P. J. Kelly

Graphene, the first true two-dimensional material still reveals the most remarkable transport properties among the growing class of two-dimensional materials. Although many studies have investigated fundamental scattering processes, the…

We study the electronic structure of gated graphene sheets. We consider both infinite graphene and finite width ribbons. The effect of Coulomb interactions between the electrically injected carriers and the coupling to the external gate are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-29 J. Fernandez-Rossier , J. J. Palacios , L. Brey

In this paper we present generic properties of quantum transport in mono-layer graphene. In the scheme of the Kubo-Geenwood formula, we compute the square spreading of wave packets of a given energy with is directly related to conductivity.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Guy Trambly de Laissardiere , Didier Mayou

The electronic transport properties of two junctions (BGB, GBG) made of borophene (B) and graphene (G) are investigated. Using the transfer matrix method with Chebyshev polynomials, we have studied single and multiple barriers in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Nadia Benlakhouy , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

The electrical transport properties of epitaxial graphene layers are correlated with the SiC surface morphology. In this study we show by atomic force microscopy and Raman measurements that the surface morphology and the structure of the…

We measure the adsorption height of hydrogen-intercalated quasi-free-standing monolayer graphene on the (0001) face of 6H silicon carbide by the normal incidence x-ray standing wave technique. A density functional calculation for the full…

By using four layered graphene/gallium nitride (GaN) Schottky diodes with an undoped GaN spacer, we demonstrate highly effective gating of graphene at low bias rendering this type of structure very promising for potential applications. An…