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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

Graphene was deposited on a transparent and flexible substrate and tensile strain up to ~0.8% was loaded by stretching the substrate in one direction. Raman spectra of strained graphene show significant redshifts of 2D and G band (-27.8…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-21 Zhen Hua Ni , Ting Yu , Yun Hao Lu , Ying Ying Wang , Yuan Ping Feng , Ze Xiang Shen

We study transport properties of clean suspended graphene at the Dirac point. In the absence of the electron-electron interaction, the main contribution to resistivity comes from interaction with flexural (out-of-plane deformation) phonons.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 I. V. Gornyi , V. Yu. Kachorovskii , A. D. Mirlin

We review the transmission of Dirac electrons through a potential barrier in the presence of circularly polarized light. A different type of transmission is demonstrated and explained. Perfect transmission for nearly head-on collision in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Andrii Iurov , Bo Gao

The complete theory of electrical conductivity of graphene at arbitrary temperature is developed with taken into account mass-gap parameter and chemical potential. Both the in-plane and out-of-plane conductivities of graphene are expressed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-25 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , V. M. Petrov

We present electron transport measurements on lithographically defined and etched graphene nanoconstrictions with different aspect ratios including different lengths (L) and widths (W). A roughly length-independent disorder induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-13 B. Terrés , J. Dauber , C. Volk , S. Trellenkamp , U. Wichmann , C. Stampfer

We determine the band structure of graphene under strain using density functional calculations. The ab-initio band strucure is then used to extract the best fit to the tight-binding hopping parameters used in a recent microscopic model of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-08 R. M. Ribeiro , Vitor M. Pereira , N. M. R. Peres , P. R. Briddon , A. H. Castro Neto

Straintronic devices made of carbon-based materials have been pushed up due to the graphene high mechanical flexibility and the possibility of interesting changes in transport properties. Properly designed strained systems have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 V. Torres , D. Faria , A. Latgé

The band structures of strained graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are examined by a tight binding Hamiltonian that is directly related to the type and strength of strains. Compared to the two-dimensional graphene whose band gap remains close to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-20 Yang Lu , Jing Guo

Motivated by recent proposals on strain-engineering of graphene electronic circuits we calculate conductivity, shot-noise and the density of states in periodically deformed graphene. We provide the solution to the Dirac-Kronig-Penney model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-13 S. Gattenloehner , W. Belzig , M. Titov

The behavior of electrons in strained graphene is usually described using effective pseudomagnetic fields in a Dirac equation. Here we consider the particular case of a spatially constant strain. Our results indicate that lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 M. Oliva-Leyva , G. G. Naumis

Impurities are unavoidable during the preparation of graphene samples and play an important role in graphene's electronic properties when they are adsorbed on graphene surface. In this work, we study the electronic structures and transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Lan Chen , Fangping Ouyang , Songshan Ma , Tie-Feng Fang , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

We show that when the pseudomagnetic fields created by long wavelength deformations are appropriately coupled with a scalar electric potential, a significant energy gap can emerge due to the formation of a Haldane state. Ramifications of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-31 T. Low , F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson

Among many remarkable qualities of graphene, its electronic properties attract particular interest due to a massless chiral character of charge carriers, which leads to such unusual phenomena as metallic conductivity in the limit of no…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson , A. K. Geim

Electrons moving in graphene behave as massless Dirac fermions, and they exhibit fascinating low-frequency electrical transport phenomena. Their dynamic response, however, is little known at frequencies above one terahertz (THz). Such…

We present a technique to fabricate tunnel junctions between graphene and Al and Cu, with a Si back gate, as well as a simple theory of tunneling between a metal and graphene. We map the differential conductance of our junctions versus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-22 C. E. Malec , D. Davidovic

We obtain analytic expressions for the conductivity of pristine (pure) graphene in the framework of the Dirac model using the polarization tensor in (2+1)-dimensions defined along the real frequency axis. It is found that at both zero and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-13 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

In this study, we highlight the potential of strain engineering in graphene/hBN (hexagonal Boron nitride) 2D heterostructures, enabling their use as wide-range light absorbers with significant implications for optoelectronic applications.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Priyanka Sinha , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , Bheemalingam Chittari

We investigate the combined influence of structural defects and uniaxial longitudinal strain on the electronic transport properties of armchair graphene nanoribbons using the numerical approach based on the semiempirical tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-30 Thomas Lehmann , Dmitry A. Ryndyk , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

By means of atomistic tight-binding calculations, we investigate the effects of uniaxial strain on the electronic bandstructure of twisted graphene bilayer. We find that the bandstructure is dramatically deformed and the degeneracy of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-13 Viet Hung Nguyen , Philippe Dollfus