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The unique optical properties of graphene, with broadband absorption and ultrafast response, make it a critical component of optoelectronic and spintronic devices. Using time-resolved momentum microscopy with high data rate and high dynamic…

Graphene - a single atomic layer of graphite - is a recently-found two-dimensional form of carbon, which exhibits high crystal quality and ballistic electron transport at room temperature. Soft magnetic NiFe electrodes have been used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 E. W. Hill , A. K. Geim , K. Novoselov , F. Schedin , P. Blake

We present an analytical model to study the electronic properties, including full band structure, low energy dispersions around the Dirac point and density of states of the ABC-stacking $N$-layer graphene (ABCNLG). An ABCNLG can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 Cheng-Peng Chang

We have investigated the role of pseudospin polarization in electron wave packet dynamics in pristine graphene and in a graphene antidot lattice subject to an external magnetic field. Employing a Green's function formalism, we show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 R. A. W. Ayyubi , N. J. M. Horing , K. Sabeeh

Ferroelectricity (Valasek, J. Phys. Rev. 1921, 17, 475) - a spontaneous formation of electric polarisation - is a solid state phenomenon, usually, associated with ionic compounds or complex materials. Here we show that, atypically for…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-29 Aitor Garcia-Ruiz , Vladimir Enaldiev , Andrew McEllistrim , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Many of the properties of graphene are tied to its lattice structure, allowing for tuning of charge carrier dynamics through mechanical strain. The graphene electro-mechanical coupling yields very large pseudomagnetic fields for small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Shuze Zhu , Joseph A. Stroscio , Teng Li

The advent of few-layer graphenes has given rise to a new family of two-dimensional systems with emergent electronic properties governed by relativistic quantum mechanics. The multiple carbon sublattices endow the electronic wavefunctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-12 L. C. Campos , A. F. Young , K. Surakitbovorn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , P. Jarillo-Herrero

The effect of a varying pseudo-magnetic field, which falls as $1/x^2$, on a two dimensional electron gas in graphene is investigated. By considering the second order Dirac equation, we show that its correct general solution is that which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-29 L. G. da Silva Leite , D. Cogollo , C. Filgueiras , Edilberto O. Silva

Based on the symmetry properties of graphene lattice, we derive the effective Hamiltonian of graphene under spatially non-uniform acoustic and optical strains. We show that with the proper selection of the parameters, the obtained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 T. L. Linnik

We investigate the proximity spin-orbit and exchange couplings in ABA and ABC trilayer graphene encapsulated within monolayers of semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides and the ferromagnetic semiconductor Cr$_2$Ge$_2$Te$_6$.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Klaus Zollner , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

A monolayer of graphene irradiated with circularly polarized light suggests a unique platform for surface electromagnetic wave (plasmon-polariton) manipulation. In fact, the time periodicity of the Hamiltonian leads to a geometric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-19 Dmitry Yudin , Olle Eriksson , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

This chapter describes the relationship between low frequency noise and coherence decay of localized spins in semiconductors. Section 2 establishes a direct relationship between an arbitrary noise spectral function and spin coherence as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-05 Rogerio de Sousa

We study the orbital effect of a strong magnetic field parallel to the layers on the energy spectrum of the Bernal-stacked graphene bilayer and multilayers, including graphite. We consider the minimal model with the electron tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-15 Sergey S. Pershoguba , Victor M. Yakovenko

The basic properties of $\pi$-electrons near the Fermi level in graphene are reviewed from a point of view of the pseudospin and a gauge field coupling to the pseudospin. The applications of the gauge field to the electron-phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Sasaki , R. Saito

Two different points of view are available to understand the behavior of graphene at low energies. One is considering a large $N_F$ that makes graphene a semimetal, and another for small $N_F < 2.5$ that would make graphene a narrow gap…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-18 N. García , P. Esquinazi , A. A. Pasa

We show that minimal-surface non-Euclidean elastic plates share the same low-energy effective theory as Haldane's dimerized quantum spin chain. As a result, such elastic plates support fractional excitations, which take the form of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-01 Kai Sun , Xiaoming Mao

The electron-phonon interaction in monolayer graphene is investigated by using density functional perturbation theory. The results indicate that the electron-phonon interaction strength is of comparable magnitude for all four in-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 K. M. Borysenko , J. T. Mullen , E. A. Barry , S. Paul , Y. G. Semenov , J. M. Zavada , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , K. W. Kim

The growing library of two-dimensional layered materials is providing researchers with a wealth of opportunity to explore and tune physical phenomena at the nanoscale. Here, we review the experimental and theoretical state-of-art concerning…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-23 Bálint Náfrádi , Mohammad Choucair , László Forró

The reflectivity of low energy electrons from graphene on copper substrates is studied both experimentally and theoretically. Well-known oscillations in the reflectivity of electrons with energies 0 - 8 eV above the vacuum level are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 N. Srivastava , Qin Gao , M. Widom , R. M. Feenstra , Shu Nie , K. F. McCarty , I. V. Vlassiouk

In graphene, the pseudospin and the valley flavor arise as new types of quantum degrees of freedom due to the honeycomb lattice comprising two sublattices (A and B) and two inequivalent Dirac points (K and K') in the Brillouin zone,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-26 Changwon Park , Heejun Yang , Andrew J. Mayne , Gerald Dujardin , Sunae Seo , Young Kuk , Jisoon Ihm , Gunn Kim