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In this review we highlight recent theoretical and experimental work on sublattice asymmetric doping of impurities in graphene, with a focus on substitutional Nitrogen dopants. It is well known that one current limitation of graphene in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-13 James A. Lawlor , Mauro S. Ferreira

Plasmon oscillations have been intensively studied for more than forty years in conventional two-dimensional electron gas systems in order to find new alternatives to the vacuum devices based on the Smith-Purcell effect in the far-infrared…

The optical absorption properties of graphene wrapped dielectric particles have been investigated by using Mie scattering theory and exact multi-scattering method. It is shown that subwavelength strong absorption in infrared spectra can…

Optics · Physics 2015-02-11 Bing Yang , Tong Wu , Yue Yang , Xiangdong Zhang

We theoretically study the electronic and transport properties of two graphene layers vertically coupled by an insulating layer under the influence of a time-periodic external light field. The non-adiabatic driving induces excitations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Pascal Stadler , Tomas Löfwander , Mikael Fogelström

Nonlinear couplings between photons and electrons in new materials give rise to a wealth of interesting nonlinear phenomena. This includes frequency mixing, optical rectification or nonlinear current generation, which are of particular…

We report significant changes of optical conductivity in single layer graphene induced by mild oxygen plasma exposure, and explore the interplay between carrier doping, disorder, and many-body interactions from their signatures in the…

The ultimate surface exposure provided by graphene monolayer makes it the ideal sensor platform but also exposes its intrinsic properties to any environmental perturbations. In this work, we demonstrate that the charge carrier density of…

We theoretically investigate charged collective modes in a two-dimensional conductor with hot electrons where the instantaneous mode frequencies gradually increase or decrease with time. We show that the loss compensation or even…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-31 Zhiyuan Sun , D. N. Basov , M. M. Fogler

Many striking non-equilibrium phenomena have been discovered or predicted in optically-driven quantum solids, ranging from light-induced superconductivity to Floquet-engineered topological phases. These effects are expected to lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-13 J. W. McIver , B. Schulte , F. -U. Stein , T. Matsuyama , G. Jotzu , G. Meier , A. Cavalleri

We evaluate recombination of electrons and holes in optically pumped graphene associated with the interband tunneling between electron-hole puddles and calculate the recombination rate and time. It is demonstrated that this mechanism can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 V. Ryzhii , M. Ryzhii , T. Otsuji

Photoconductivity of novel materials is the key property of interest for design of photodetectors, optical modulators, and switches. Despite the photoconductivity of most novel 2d materials has been studied both theoretically and…

Graphene is known to be non-superconducting. However, surprising superconductivity is recently discovered in a flat-band in a twisted bi-layer graphene. Here we show that superconductivity can be more easily realized in topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-14 Feng Xu , Po-Hao Chou , Chung-Hou Chung , Ting-Kuo Lee , Chung-Yu Mou

Optical reflectivity and transmission measurements over photon energies between 0.2 and 1.2 eV were performed on single-crystal graphene samples on a transparent SiO2 substrate. For photon energies above 0.5 eV, graphene yielded a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Kin Fai Mak , Matthew Y. Sfeir , Yang Wu , Chun Hung Lui , James A. Misewich , Tony F. Heinz

Field effect transistors with channels made of graphene layer(s) were explored. The graphene layer(s) contacted a distributed array of well-separated semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). The dots were embedded in nano-structured hole-array;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-26 Samarth Trivedi , Haim Grebel

Graphene is a 2D material with appealing electronic and optoelectronic properties. It is a zero-bandgap material with valence and conduction bands meeting in a single point (Dirac point) in the momentum space. Its conductivity can be…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 V. Sorianello , G. Contestabile , M. Romagnoli

We solve the Dirac equation, which describes charge massless chiral relativistic carriers in a two-dimensional graphene. We have identified and analysed a novel pseudospin-dependent scattering effect. We compute the tunneling conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 Dima Bolmatov , D. V. Zavialov

We study dc and ac transport along armchair graphene nanoribbons using the ${\bf k\cdot p}$ spectrum and eigenfunctions and general linear-response expressions for the conductivities. Then we contrast the results with those for transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 M. Zubair , M. Bahrami , P. Vasilopoulos

Electroluminescence, a non-thermal radiative process, is ubiquitous in semi-conductors and insulators but fundamentally precluded in metals. We show here that this restriction can be circumvented in high-quality graphene. By investigating…

Inelastic electron tunneling provides a low-energy pathway for the excitation of surface plasmons and light emission. We theoretically investigate tunnel junctions based on metals and graphene. We show that graphene is potentially a highly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-28 Kelvin J. A. Ooi , Hong Son Chu , Chang Yu Hsieh , Dawn T. H. Tan , Lay Kee Ang

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