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We report a joint study, using Raman micro-spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations, on the substrate effect on thermal properties of 2D materials and revisit measurement of thermal expansion coefficient (TEC) of supported 2D film.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-22 Qianchi Feng , Dongshan Wei , Yudan Su , Zhiguang Zhou , Feng Wang , Chuanshan Tian

We obtained numerical and closed-form analytic expressions for finite-temperature plasmon dispersion relations for intrinsic graphene in the presence of a finite energy gap in the energy spectrum. The calculations were carried out using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-20 Andrii Iurov , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , V. Silkin

We compute the electronic component of the thermal conductivity (TC) and the thermoelectric power (TEP) of monolayer graphene, within the hydrodynamic regime, taking into account the slow rate of carrier population imbalance relaxation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Matthew S. Foster , Igor L. Aleiner

We demonstrate top-gated field effect transistor made of reduced graphene oxide (RGO) monolayer (graphene) by dielectrophoresis. Raman spectrum of RGO flakes of typical size of 5{\mu}m x 5{\mu}m show a single 2D band at 2687 cm-1,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 K. S. Vasu , Biswanath Chakraborty , S. Sampath , A. K. Sood

Finite-temperature properties of graphene monolayers under tensile stress have been studied by path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations. This method allows one to consider the quantization of vibrational modes in these…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-14 Carlos P. Herrero , Rafael Ramirez

We theoretically investigate the possibility of excitonic condensation in a system of two graphene monolayers separated by an insulator, in which electrons and holes in the layers are induced by external gates. In contrast to the recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-03-25 Maxim Yu. Kharitonov , Konstantin B. Efetov

Graphene is a 2-dimensional material with high carrier mobility and thermal conductivity, suitable for high-speed electronics. Conduction and valence bands touch at the Dirac point. The absorptivity of single-layer graphene is 2.3%, nearly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-11 Marcus Freitag , Hsin-Ying Chiu , Mathias Steiner , Vasili Perebeinos , Phaedon Avouris

Graphane is a quasi-two-dimensional material consisting of a single layer of fully hydrogenated graphene, with a C:H ratio of 1. We study nuclear quantum effects in the so-called chair-graphane by using path-integral molecular dynamics…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-08-24 Carlos P. Herrero , Rafael Ramirez

This article proposes a new energy harvesting concept that greatly enhances thermionic power generation with high e ciency by exploiting the near- field enhancement of thermal radiation. The proposed near-field enhanced thermionic energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Mohammad Ghashami , Sung Kwon Cho , Keunhan Park

We present a comprehensive investigation of the low-temperature heat capacity of thermally reduced graphene oxide (trGO) as a function of compaction pressure and annealing temperature. Graphene oxide was synthesized using a modified Hummers…

Graphene and related two-dimensional materials are promising candidates for atomically thin, flexible, and transparent optoelectronics. In particular, the strong light-matter interaction in graphene has allowed for the development of…

We show that the work function of exfoliated single layer graphene can be modified by irradiation with swift (E_{kin}=92 MeV) heavy ions under glancing angles of incidence. Upon ion impact individual surface tracks are created in graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 O. Ochedowski , B. Kleine Bussmann , B. Ban d'Etat , H. Lebius , M. Schleberger

We present a simple and fast method for thickness characterization of suspended graphene flakes that is based on transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques. For this method, the dynamical theory of electron diffraction (Bloch-wave…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-09 Sultan Akhtar , Stefano Rubino , Klaus Leifer

Graphene has drawn wide attention due to its exceptional thermal conductivity but complete understanding of thermal characteristics of polycrystalline graphene is still elusive to date. For the first time, herein, we have systematically…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-26 Young I. Jhon , Myung S. Jhon

Electrons in a periodic lattice can propagate without scattering for macroscopic distances despite the presence of the non-uniform Coulomb potential due to the nuclei. Such ballistic motion of electrons allows the use of a transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Thiti Taychatanapat , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

We have achieved mobilities in excess of 200,000 cm^2/Vs at electron densities of ~2*10^11 cm^-2 by suspending single layer graphene. Suspension ~150 nm above a Si/SiO_2 gate electrode and electrical contacts to the graphene was achieved by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. I. Bolotin , K. J. Sikes , Z. Jiang , M. Klima , G. Fudenberg , J. Hone , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer

A novel electrochemical means to generate atomic hydrogen, simplifying the synthesis and controllability of graphane formation on graphene is presented. High quality, vacuum grown epitaxial graphene (EG) was used as starting material for…

An analytical study of low-energy electronic excited states in an uniformly strained graphene is carried out up to second-order in the strain tensor. We report an new effective Dirac Hamiltonian with an anisotropic Fermi velocity tensor,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Maurice Oliva-Leyva , Chumin Wang

Thermal conduction was explored and discussed through a combined theoretical and simulation approach in this work. The thermal conductivity k of polycrystalline graphene was calculated by molecular dynamics simulations based on a hexagonal…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-05 Yanlei Wang , Zhigong Song , Zhiping Xu

In low-dimensional systems, the combination of reduced dimensionality, strong interactions, and topology has led to a growing number of many-body quantum phenomena. Thermal transport, which is sensitive to all energy-carrying degrees of…