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It is shown that clustering of charged impurities on graphene can suppress their contribution to the resistivity by a large factor of about the number of impurities per cluster, while leaving the density dependence unchanged. If the cluster…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-25 M. I. Katsnelson , F. Guinea , A. K. Geim

The photon-like electronic dispersion of graphene bestows its charge carriers with unusual confinement properties that depend strongly on the geometry and strength of the surrounding potential. Here we report bottom-up synthesis of…

The presence of defects such as vacancies in solids has prominent effects on their mechanical properties. It not only modifies the stiffness and strength of materials, but also changes their morphologies. The latter effect is extremely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 Zhigong Song , Zhiping Xu

Growth and roughness of the interface of deposited polymer chains driven by a field onto an impenetrable adsorbing surface are studied by computer simulations in (2+1) dimensions. The evolution of the interface width W shows a crossover…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank W. Bentrem , R. B. Pandey , Fereydoon Family

In the present paper, using Pseudo-Quantum Electrodynamics to describe the interaction between electrons in graphene, we investigate the longitudinal and optical conductivities of a neutral graphene sheet near a grounded perfectly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-04 D. C. Pedrelli , D. T. Alves , V. S. Alves

We demonstrate that the plasmon frequency and Drude weight of the electron liquid in a doped graphene sheet are strongly renormalized by electron-electron interactions even in the long-wavelength limit. This effect is not captured by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Saeed H. Abedinpour , G. Vignale , A. Principi , Marco Polini , Wang-Kong Tse , A. H. MacDonald

The ability of different materials to display self-limiting growth has recently attracted enormous attention due to the importance of nanoscale materials in applications for catalysis, energy conversion, (opto)electronics, etc. Here, we…

We study the effects of metallic doping on the electronic properties of graphene using density functional theory in the local density approximation in the presence of a local charging energy (LDA+U). The electronic properties are sensitive…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Uchoa , C. -Y. Lin , A. H. Castro Neto

One-dimensional defects in graphene have strong influence on its physical properties, such as electrical charge transport and mechanical strength. With enhanced chemical reactivity, such defects may also allow us to selectively…

Excess conductance fluctuations with peculiar temperature-dependence from 1.4 to 250 K were observed in curved nano-graphite sheets with an electrode gap length of 300 and 450 nm, whereas the conductance fluctuation is greatly suppressed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-31 Haomin Wang , Catherine Choong , Jun Zhang , Kie Leong Teo , Yihong Wu

Graphene multilayers are grown epitaxially on single crystal silicon carbide. This system is composed of several graphene layers of which the first layer is electron doped due to the built-in electric field and the other layers are…

We present temperature-dependent magneto-transport experiments around the charge neutrality point in graphene and determine the amplitude of potential fluctuations $s$ responsible for the formation of electron-hole puddles. The experimental…

The distribution of net electric charge in graphene is investigated, using both a constitutive atomic charge-dipole interaction model and an approximate analytical solution to Laplace's equation. We demonstrate a strong size dependence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-21 Zhao Wang , Robert W. Scharstein

We investigate the conductivity of doped graphene in the semiclassical Boltzmann limit, as well as the conductivity minimum within the self-consistent transport theory. Using the hard-disk model for a two-dimensional distribution of…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-21 Rastko Aničić , Zoran L. Mišković

Exact numerical calculations of the conductivity of graphene sheets with random and correlated distributions of disorders have been performed using the time-dependent real-space Kubo formalism. The disorder was modeled by the long-range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 T. M. Radchenko , A. A. Shylau , I. V. Zozoulenko

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the spectrum of graphene plasmons which arise when a pair of sheets are confined between conducting materials. The associated enhanced local fields may be employed in the manipulation of light on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 Godfrey Gumbs , Dipendra Dahal , Antonios Balassis

We consider a graphene sheet in the vicinity of a substrate, which contains charged impurities. An analytic expression for the probability distribution function of voltage fluctuations due to the charged impurities is derived. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-14 Victor Galitski , Shaffique Adam , S. Das Sarma

We report results of a multiscale simulation study of multilayer structures consisting of graphene sheets with embedded Pt nanoparticles. Density functional theory is used to understand the energetics of Pt-graphene interfaces and provide…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Samaneh Nasiri , Christian Greff , Kai Wang , Mingjun Yang , Qianqian Li , Paolo Moretti , Michael Zaiser

In an ideal graphene sheet charge carriers behave as two-dimensional (2D) Dirac fermions governed by the quantum mechanics of massless relativistic particles. This has been confirmed by the discovery of a half-integer quantum Hall effect in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Yuanbo Zhang , Victor W. Brar , Caglar Girit , Alex Zettl , Michael F. Crommie

This work reports the peculiar properties of a graphene film prepared by the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of ethylene in high vacuum on a well oriented and carefully cleaned Pt(111) crystal surface maintained at high temperature. In-situ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 E. Cazzanelli , T. Caruso , M. Castriota , A. R. Marino , A. Politano , G. Chiarello , M. Giarola , G. Mariotto