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With the help of the quantum chemistry methods we have investigated the nature of interlayer interactions between graphene fragments in different stacking arrangements (AA and AB). We found that the AB stacking pattern as the ground state…
We introduce a novel two-dimensional electronic system with ultrastrong interlayer interactions, namely twisted bilayer graphene with a large twist angle, as an ideal ground for realizing interlayer-coherent excitonic condensates. In these…
The intrinsic resistance peak (ridge) structures were recently found to appear in the carrier density dependence plot of the resistance of the AB-stacked multilayer graphene with even numbers of layers.The ridges are due to topological…
Coherent motion of the electrons in the Bloch states is one of the fundamental concepts of the charge conduction in solid state physics. In layered materials, however, such a condition often breaks down for the interlayer conduction, when…
Interlayer misorientation in transition metal dichalcogenides alters the interlayer distance, the electronic band structure, and the vibrational modes, but, its effect on the interlayer resistance is not known. This work analyzes the…
We study theoretically the resistance at the interface between the two planar systems with different lattice constants a and b. The resistance and the effect of the magnetic field depends sensitively on the ratio a/b. The size of the…
The resistance of multilayers with interface roughness on a length scale which is large compared to the atomic spacing is computed in several cases via the Boltzmann equation. This type of roughness is common in magnetic multilayers. When…
We have studied the resistivity of a large number of highly oriented graphite samples with areas ranging from several mm$^2$ to a few $\mu$m$^2$ and thickness from $\sim 10 $nm to several tens of micrometers. The measured resistance can be…
Surface resistivity of hydrogenated amorphous carbon films was measured as a function of the applied electrical field. The measured dependence shows a sharp ambipolar peak near zero gate voltage. Furthermore, we found that in some samples…
We have explored the electronic properties of stacked graphene flakes with the help of the quantum chemistry methods. We found that the behavior of a bilayer system is governed by the strength of the repulsive interactions that arise…
The \emph{resistance matrix} of a simple connected graph $G$ is denoted by $R$, and is defined by $R =(r_{ij})$, where $r_{ij}$ is the resistance distance between the vertices $i$ and $j$ of $G$. In this paper, we consider the resistance…
Electronic properties of bilayer and multilayer graphene have generally been interpreted in terms of AB or Bernal stacking. However, it is known that many types of stacking defects can occur in natural and synthetic graphite; rotation of…
The intrinsic channel properties of monolayer and multilayer graphene were systematically investigated as a function of layer number by the exclusion of contact resistance using four-probe measurements. We show that the continuous change in…
The contact resistance between two dissimilar semiconductors is determined by the carrier transmission through their interface. Despite the ubiquitous presence of interfaces, quantitative simulation of charge transport across such…
Precision measurements of the quantum Hall resistance with alternating current (ac) in the kHz range were performed on epitaxial graphene in order to assess its suitability as a quantum standard of impedance. The quantum Hall plateaus…
Four-terminal resistances, both longitudinal and diagonal, of a locally gated graphene device are measured in the quantum-Hall (QH) regime. In sharp distinction from previous two-terminal studies [J. R. Williams \textit{et al.}, Science…
We study the ballistic transmission and the contact resistance ($R_c$) of a graphite-graphene contact in a top contact geometry from first principles. We find that the calculated $R_c$'s depend on the amount of graphene-graphite overlap,…
We study the effect of interface disorder on the spin-dependent interface resistances of Co/Cu, Fe/Cr and Au/Ag multilayers using a newly developed method for calculating transmission matrices from first-principles. The efficient…
We present a general theoretical formulation to describe the interlayer interaction in incommensurate bilayer systems with arbitrary crystal structures. By starting from the tight- binding model with the distance-dependent transfer…
So far the physics of moir\'e graphene bilayers at large, incommensurate rotation angles has been considered uninteresting. It has been held that the interlayer coupling in such structures is weak and the system can be thought of as a pair…