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We demonstrate that the electronic, thermal, and optical properties of a graphene bilayer with boron and nitrogen dopant atoms can be controlled by the interlayer distance between the layers in which the interaction energy and the van der…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Hunar Omar Rashid , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

Layers of two-dimensional materials stacked with a small twist-angle give rise to beating periodic patterns on a scale much larger than the original lattice, referred to as a moir\'e superlattice. When the stacking involves more than two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-03 Kan-Ting Tsai , Xi Zhang , Ziyan Zhu , Yujie Luo , Stephen Carr , Mitchell Luskin , Efthimios Kaxiras , Ke Wang

We identify qualitative trends in the stacking sequence dependence of carrier-carrier interaction phenomena in multilayer graphene. Our theory is based on a new approach which explicitly exhibits the important role in interaction phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-30 Yunsu Jang , E. H. Hwang , A. H. MacDonald , Hongki Min

The existence of inequivalent valleys K and K' in the momentum space of two-dimensional hexagonal lattices provides a new electronic degree of freedom, the manipulation of which can potentially lead to new types of electronics, in analogy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 J. Li , K. Wang , K. J. McFaul , Z. Zern , Y. F. Ren , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Z. H. Qiao , J. Zhu

We study electronic, charge, and magnetic properties of twisted bilayer graphene with fillings $2\leq n\leq 6$ per moire unit cell within the recently introduced formulation of extended dynamical mean-field theory (E-DMFT) for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-30 A. A. Katanin

We discuss the effect of disorder on the band gap measured in bilayer graphene in optical and transport experiments. By calculating the optical conductivity and density of states using a microscopic model in the presence of disorder, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Hongki Min , D. S. L. Abergel , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Ferroelectricity (Valasek, J. Phys. Rev. 1921, 17, 475) - a spontaneous formation of electric polarisation - is a solid state phenomenon, usually, associated with ionic compounds or complex materials. Here we show that, atypically for…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-29 Aitor Garcia-Ruiz , Vladimir Enaldiev , Andrew McEllistrim , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Electronic and transport properties of bilayer heterostructure under light irradiation are of fundamental interest to improve functionality of optoelectronic devices. We theoretically study the modification of transport properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-16 Pascal Stadler , Mikael Fogelström

The recent discovery of methods to isolate graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of crystalline carbon, has raised the possibility of a new class of nano-electronics devices based on the extraordinary electrical transport and unusual physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-02 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Anthony Barker , Eva Y. Andrei

Stacking two graphene layers twisted by the 'magic angle' $\theta \approx 1.1^\circ$ generates flat energy bands, which in turn catalyzes various strongly correlated phenomena depending on filling and sample details. At charge neutrality,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-24 Alex Thomson , Jason Alicea

Using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation, we study the compressibility instability of the interacting electrons in bilayer graphene. The chemical potential and the compressibility of the electrons can be significantly altered by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-01-11 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

Bilayer graphene (BLG) at the charge neutrality point (CNP) is strongly susceptible to electronic interactions, and expected to undergo a phase transition into a state with spontaneous broken symmetries. By systematically investigating a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-01 Wenzhong Bao , Jairo Velasco , Fan Zhang , Lei Jing , Brian Standley , Dmitry Smirnov , Marc Bockrath , Allan MacDonald , Chun Ning Lau

We study thermal fluctuations of a free-standing bilayer graphene subject to vanishing external tension. Within a phenomenological theory, the system is described as a stack of two continuum crystalline membranes, characterized by finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Achille Mauri , David Soriano , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-27 Julia Berashevich , Tapash Chakraborty

Novel physical properties have been reported recently by stacking graphene-like systems in different configurations. Here, we explore the nature of emergent localized states at the edges of twisted bilayer graphene nanoribbons. Based on an…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-13 Kevin J. U. Vidarte , A. B. Felix , A. Latgé

We construct Sierpinski-carpet (SC) based on AA or AB bilayer graphene by atom vacancies, namely, SC-AA and SC-AB, to investigate the effects of interlayer coupling on the electronic properties of fractals. Compared with monolayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Xiaotian Yang , Weiqing Zhou , Qi Yao , Yunhai Li , Yunhua Wang , Shengjun Yuan

We study the transport properties of a twisted bilayer graphene flake contacted by two monolayer nanoribbons which act as leads. We analyze the conductance in terms of the spectra of the bilayer nanoribbon and the monolayer contacts. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Pelc , E. Suárez Morell , L. Brey , L. Chico

We study the charge carriers transport in an AA-stacked bilayer graphene modulated by a lateral one-dimensional multibarrier structure. We investigate the band structures of our system, that is made up of two shifted Dirac cones, for finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 Ilham Redouani , Ahmed Jellal

The recent work on stanene as quantum spin Hall insulators made us investigate bilayer stanene using first principle calculations. With an aim of improving and developing new properties, via modulating the stacking order (and angle) of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-24 Mohammed Ghadiyali , Sajeev Chacko

The carrier mobility of a graphene double-layer system is evaluated on the basis of the Boltzmann transport theory. In this system, two graphene layers are separated by a dielectric barrier layer. We focus on the cases in which there is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-08 Kazuhiro Hosono , Katsunori Wakabayashi