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Graphene is an interesting debated topic between scientists because of its unique properties such as tunable conductivity. Graphene conductivity can be varied by either electrostatic or magnetostatic gating or via chemical doping, which…

The electronic properties of graphene are unique and are attracting increased attention to this novel 2-dimensional system. Its photonic properties are not less impressive. For example, this single atomic layer absorbs through direct…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-12-25 Fengnian Xia , Thomas Mueller , Yu-ming Lin , Alberto Valdes-Garcia , Phaedon Avouris

Graphene is the nature's thinnest elastic membrane, with exceptional mechanical and electrical properties. We report the direct observation and creation of one-dimensional (1D) and 2D periodic ripples in suspended graphene sheets, using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-28 Wenzhong Bao , Feng Miao , Zhen Chen , Hang Zhang , Wanyoung Jang , Chris Dames , Chun Ning Lau

Graphene placed in a magnetic field possesses an extremely high mid/far-infrared optical nonlinearity originating from its unusual band structure and selection rules for the optical transitions near the Dirac point. Here we study the linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-26 Xianghan Yao , Alexey Belyanin

Transmission electron microscopy has witnessed rampant development and surging point resolution over the past few years. The improved imaging performance of modern electron microscopes shifts the bottleneck for image contrast and resolution…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 R. S. Pantelic , J. C. Meyer , U. Kaiser , H. Stahlberg

This review explores the synthesis, characterization, and potential applications of graphene, a two-dimensional material with exceptional properties. Graphene's versatility in energy and electronics applications is highlighted, with its…

Graphene, a two-dimensional crystal made of carbon atoms, provides a new and unexpected bridge between low and high-energy physics. The field has evolved very fast and very good reviews are already available in the literature. Graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Alberto Cortijo , Francisco Guinea , Maria A. H. Vozmediano

Graphene is the first truly two-dimensional (2D) material, possessing a cone-like energy spectrum near the Fermi energy and treated as a gapless semiconductor. Its unique properties trigger researchers to find more applications of it, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-23 Wei-Bang Li , Yu-Ming Wang , Hsien-Ching Chung , Ming-Fa Lin

Graphene is a two-dimensional material with strongly nonlinear electrodynamics and optical properties. We present some of our recent theoretical results on the quantum and non-perturbative quasi-classical theories of nonlinear effects in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 S. A. Mikhailov , N. A. Savostianova

Graphane is obtained by perfectly hydrogenating graphene. There exists an intermediate material, partially hydrogenated graphene (which we call \textit{hydrographene}), interpolating from pure graphene to pure graphane. It has various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-11 Motohiko Ezawa

Graphene has many unique properties that make it an ideal material for fundamental studies as well as for potential applications. Here we review the recent results on the Raman spectroscopy and imaging of graphene. Raman spectroscopy and…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-17 Zhen hua Ni , Ying ying Wang , Ting Yu , Ze xiang Shen

Graphene is a truly two-dimensional atomic crystal with exceptional electronic and mechanical properties. Whereas conventional bulk and thin-film materials have been studied extensively, the key mechanical properties of graphene, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-25 Dipanjan Sen , Kostya S. Novoselov , Pedro M. Reis , Markus J. Buehler

The diverse applications of terahertz radiation and its importance to fundamental science makes finding ways to generate, manipulate, and detect terahertz radiation one of the key areas of modern applied physics. One approach is to utilize…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 R. R. Hartmann , J. Kono , M. E. Portnoi

In recent years, the telecommunications field has experienced an unparalleled proliferation of wireless data traffic. Innovative solutions are imperative to circumvent the inherent limitations of the current technology, in particular in…

Plasmons, collective oscillations of electron systems, can efficiently couple light and electric current, and thus can be used to create sub-wavelength photodetectors, radiation mixers, and on-chip spectrometers. Despite considerable…

Graphene is considered to be a promising material for future electronics. The envisaged transistor applications often rely on precision cutting of graphene sheets with nanometer accuracy. In this letter we demonstrate graphene-based quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-27 S. Neubeck , L. A. Ponomarenko , F. Freitag , A. J. M. Giesbers , U. Zeitler , S. V. Morozov , P. Blake , A. K. Geim , K. S. Novoselov

Experiments are finally revealing intricate facts about graphene which go beyond the ideal picture of relativistic Dirac fermions in pristine two dimensional (2D) space, two years after its first isolation. While observations of rippling…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Eun-Ah Kim , A. H. Castro Neto

The theory of optical effects in hydrogenated graphene (graphane) in terahertz and infrared range is developed, including the analysis of complex conductivity, reflection coefficient for graphane on a substrate and dispersion of surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 E. I. Preobrazhensky , I. V. Oladyshkin , M. D. Tokman

We predict the stability of a new extended two-dimensional hydrocarbon on the basis of first-principles total energy calculations. The compound that we call graphane is a fully saturated hydrocarbon derived from a single graphene sheet with…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Jorge O. Sofo , Ajay S. Chaudhari , Greg D. Barber

Plasmon in graphene possesses many unique properties. It originates from the collective motion of massless Dirac fermions and the carrier density dependence is distinctively different from conventional plasmons. In addition, graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Shenyang Huang , Chaoyu Song , Guowei Zhang , Hugen Yan