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We report an efficient technique to induce gate-tunable two-dimensional superlattices in graphene by the combined action of a back gate and a few-layer graphene patterned bottom gate complementary to existing methods. The patterned gates in…

Commensurate-incommensurate transitions are ubiquitous in physics and are often accompanied by intriguing phenomena. In few-layer graphene (FLG) systems, commensurability between honeycomb lattices on adjacent layers is regulated by their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Rafi Bistritzer , Allan H. MacDonald

Graphene, being one-atom thick, is extremely sensitive to the presence of adsorbed atoms and molecules and, more generally, to defects such as vacancies, holes and/or substitutional dopants. This property, apart from being directly usable…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-04-08 Rocco Martinazzo , Simone Casolo , Gian Franco Tantardini

The electronic properties of a graphene sheet with attached hydrogen atoms is studied using a modified Falicov-Kimball model on the honeycomb lattice. It is shown that in the ground state this system separates into two phases: fully…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-30 A. L. Rakhmanov , A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov , Franco Nori

We review the electronic properties of bilayer graphene, beginning with a description of the tight-binding model of bilayer graphene and the derivation of the effective Hamiltonian describing massive chiral quasiparticles in two parabolic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 Edward McCann , Mikito Koshino

A new kind of three-dimensional carbon allotropes, termed carbon honeycomb (CHC), has recently been synthesized [PRL 116, 055501 (2016)]. Based on the experimental results, a family of graphene networks are constructed, and their electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-20 Yan Gao , Yuanping Chen , Chengyong Zhong , Zhongwei Zhang , Yuee Xie , Shengbai Zhang

Motivated by the ever-improving performance of deep learning techniques, we design a mixed input convolutional neural network approach to predict transport properties in deformed nanoscale materials using a height map of deformations (from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Jack G. Nedell , Jonah Spector , Adel Abbout , Michael Vogl , Gregory A. Fiete

Graphene is a two-dimensional layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice, whose outstanding properties makes it an excellent material for future electronic and photonic terahertz (THz) devices. In this work, we design hybrid…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-29 Tianjing Guo , Christos Argyropoulos

We propose an extensive report on the simulation of electronic transport in 2D graphene in presence of structural defects. Amongst the large variety of such defects in sp$^2$ carbon-based materials, we focus on the Stone-Wales defect and on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-03 Aurelien Lherbier , Simon M. -M. Dubois , Xavier Declerck , Yann-Michel Niquet , Stephan Roche , Jean-Christophe Charlier

We fabricated graphene pnp devices, by embedding pre-defined local gates in an oxidized surface layer of a silicon substrate. With neither dielectric-material deposition nor electron-beam irradiation on the graphene, we obtained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Seung-Geol Nam , Dong-Keun Ki , Jong Wan Park , Youngwook Kim , Jun Sung Kim , Hu-Jong Lee

Graphyne (GY) and graphdiyne (GDY)-based materials represent an intriguing class of two-dimensional (2D) carbon-rich networks with tunable structures and properties surpassing those of graphene. However, the challenge of fabricating…

We study the effect of Coulomb interaction between charge carriers on the properties of graphene monolayer, assuming that the strength of the interaction is controlled by the dielectric permittivity of the substrate on which the graphene…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-14 P. V. Buividovich , M. I. Polikarpov

Charge carrier transport in single-layer graphene with one-dimensional charged defects is studied theoretically. Extended charged defects, considered an important factor for mobility degradation in chemically-vapor-deposited graphene, are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-15 T. M. Radchenko , A. A. Shylau , I. V. Zozoulenko , A. Ferreira

We present electronic transport measurements through short and narrow (30x30 nm) single layer graphene constrictions on a hexagonal boron nitride substrate. While the general observation of Coulomb-blockade is compatible with earlier work,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-30 Dominik Bischoff , Florian Libisch , Joachim Burgdörfer , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin

Materials science and the study of the electronic properties of solids are a major field of interest in both physics and engineering. The starting point for all such calculations is single-electron, or non-interacting, band structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Alicia J. Kollár , Mattias Fitzpatrick , Peter Sarnak , Andrew A. Houck

We perform a MonteCarlo simulation in order to study the connection between the morphology and the transport properties of grain boundaries (GBs) in graphene. We explore the configurational space of GBs to generate ensembles of realistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 Fernando Gargiulo

Unidirectional and robust transport is generally observed at the edge of two- or three-dimensional quantum Hall and topological insulator systems. A hallmark of these systems is topological protection, i.e. the existence of propagative edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-15 Stefano Longhi , Davide Gatti , Giuseppe Della Valle

Serving as a new two-dimensional plasmonic material, graphene has stimulated an intensive study of its optical properties which benefit from the unique electronic band structure of the underlying honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Weihua Wang , Thomas Christensen , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Kristian S. Thygesen , Martijn Wubs , N. Asger Mortensen

Graphene enables precise carrier-density control via gating, making it an ideal platform for studying electronic interactions. However, sample inhomogeneities often limit access to the low-density regimes where these interactions dominate.…

Graphene is believed to be an excellent candidate material for next-generation electronic devices. However, one needs to take into account the nontrivial effect of metal contacts in order to precisely control the charge injection and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Salvador Barraza-Lopez , Markus Kindermann , M. Y. Chou