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We investigate the transport properties of high-quality single-layer graphene, epitaxially grown on a 6H-SiC(0001) substrate. We have measured transport properties, in particular charge carrier density, mobility, conductivity and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Johannes Jobst , Daniel Waldmann , Florian Speck , Roland Hirner , Duncan K. Maude , Thomas Seyller , Heiko B. Weber

We propose a unified description of transport in graphene with adsorbates that fully takes into account localization effects and loss of electronic coherence due to inelastic processes. We focus in particular on the role of the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-28 Guy Trambly De Laissardière , Didier Mayou

We introduce graphene antidot lattice waveguides: nanostructured graphene where a region of pristine graphene is sandwiched between regions of graphene antidot lattices. The band gap in the surrounding antidot lattices enable localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 Jesper Goor Pedersen , Tue Gunst , Troels Markussen , Thomas Garm Pedersen

Graphene-oxide hybrid structures offer the opportunity to combine the versatile functionalities of oxides with the excellent electronic transport in graphene. Understanding and controlling how the dielectric environment affects the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-26 X. Hong , K. Zou , A. M. DaSilva , C. H. Ahn , J. Zhu

Graphite is a well-studied material with known electronic and optical properties. Graphene, on the other hand, which is just one layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, has been studied theoretically for quite some time but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Molitor , D. Graf , C. Stampfer , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

The role of defect-induced zero-energy modes on charge transport in graphene is investigated using Kubo and Landauer transport calculations. By tuning the density of random distributions of monovacancies either equally populating the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-13 Alessandro Cresti , Frank Ortmann , Thibaud Louvet , Dinh Van Tuan , Stephan Roche

A scalable tight-binding model is applied for large-scale quantum transport calculations in clean graphene subject to electrostatic superlattice potentials, including two types of graphene superlattices: moir\'e patterns due to the stacking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Szu-Chao Chen , Rainer Kraft , Romain Danneau , Klaus Richter , Ming-Hao Liu

Charge carrier transport in single-layer graphene with one-dimensional charged defects is studied theoretically. Extended charged defects, considered an important factor for mobility degradation in chemically-vapor-deposited graphene, are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-15 T. M. Radchenko , A. A. Shylau , I. V. Zozoulenko , A. Ferreira

We present an investigation of the atomic and electronic structure of graphene monolayer islands on the 6H-SiC(000-1)(3x3) (SiC(3x3)) surface reconstruction using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS). The orientation…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-04 F. Hiebel , P. Mallet , L. Magaud , J. -Y. Veuillen

We theoretically study the transport properties of both monolayer and bilayer graphene in the presence of electron-hole puddles induced by charged impurities which are invariably present in the graphene environment. We calculate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-28 Qiuzi Li , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

In this paper, we analytically investigate the electronic structure of Bernal stacking (AB stacking) graphene evolving from monolayer (a zero-gap semiconductor with a linear Dirac-like spectrum around the Fermi energy) to multi-layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. F. Wang , Huaixiu Zheng , Q. W. Shi , Jie Chen , Jinlong Yang , J. G. Hou

Carrier transport in gated 2D graphene monolayers is theoretically considered in the presence of scattering by random charged impurity centers with density $n_i$. Excellent quantitative agreement is obtained (for carrier density $n >…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-09 E. H. Hwang , S. Adam , S. Das Sarma

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

Pristine graphene and graphene-based heterostructures exhibit exceptionally high electron mobility and conductance if their surface contains few electron-scattering impurities. Here, we reveal a universal connection between graphene's…

MXene-based heterostructures have received considerable interest owing to their unique properties. Herein, we examine various heterostructures of a prototypical MXene and graphene using density functional theory. We find that the adhesion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Rui Li , Weiwei Sun , Cheng Zhan , Paul R. C. Kent , De-en Jiang

The coupling of geometrical and electronic properties is a promising venue to engineer conduction properties in graphene. Confinement added to strain allows for interplay of different transport mechanisms with potential device applications.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-14 R. Carrillo-Bastos , D. Faria , A. Latgé , F. Mireles , N. Sandler

The adsorption of an alkali-metal submonolayer on graphene occupying every third hexagon of the honeycomb lattice in a commensurate $(\sqrt{3}\times\sqrt{3})R30^\circ$ arrangement induces an energy gap in the spectrum of graphene. To…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-27 M. Farjam , H. Rafii-Tabar

The fabrication of epitaxial graphene (EG) on SiC substrate by annealing has attracted a lot of interest as it may speed up the application of graphene for future electronic devices. The interaction of EG and the SiC substrate is critical…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. H. Ni , W. Chen , X. F. Fan , J. L. Kuo , T. Yu , A. T. S. Wee , Z. X. Shen

Hydrodynamic electron transport arises when carrier kinetics are dominated by interelectron collisions rather than the relaxation of momentum out of the electron system. In recent years, signatures of electron hydrodynamics have been…

We implement a bottom-up multiscale approach for the modeling of defect localization in $C_{6n^2}H_{6n}$ islands, i.e. graphene quantum dots with a hexagonal symmetry, by means of density functional and semiempirical approaches. Using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-17 I. Deretzis , G. Forte , A. Grassi , A. La Magna , G. Piccitto , R. Pucci