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We present a theoretical study using density functional calculations of the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of 3d transition metal, noble metal and Zn atoms interacting with carbon monovacancies in graphene. We pay special…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Elton J. G. Santos , Andres Ayuela , Daniel Sanchez-Portal

The variable range hopping theory, as formulated for exponentially localized impurity states, does not necessarily apply in the case of graphene with covalently attached impurities. We analyze the localization of impurity states in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Sang-Zi Liang , Jorge O. Sofo

We study theoretically the effects of short-range electron-electron interactions on the electronic structure of graphene, in the presence of single substitutional impurities. Our computational approach is based on the $\pi$ orbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 Faluke Aikebaier , Anna Pertsova , Carlo M. Canali

A striking feature of bilayer graphene is the induction of a significant band gap in the electronic states by the application of a perpendicular electric field. Thicker graphene layers are also highly attractive materials. The ability to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 Chun Hung Lui , Zhiqiang Li , Kin Fai Mak , Emmanuele Cappelluti , Tony F. Heinz

Employing the Kernel Polynomial method (KPM), we study the electronic properties of the graphene bilayers in the presence of diagonal disorder, within the tight-binding approximation. The KPM method enables us to calculate local density of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-06-09 M. H. Zare , Mohsen Amini , Farhad Shahbazi , S. A. Jafari

We report the existence of zero energy surface states localized at zigzag edges of bilayer graphene. Working within the tight-binding approximation we derive the analytic solution for the wavefunctions of these peculiar surface states. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-16 Eduardo V. Castro , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea

In this review, we provide an in-depth description of the physics of monolayer and bilayer graphene from a theorist's perspective. We discuss the physical properties of graphene in an external magnetic field, reflecting the chiral nature of…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-20 D. S. L. Abergel , V. Apalkov , J. Berashevich , K. Ziegler , Tapash Chakraborty

We report on a capacitance study of dual gated bilayer graphene. The measured capacitance allows us to probe the electronic compressibility as a function of carrier density, temperature, and applied perpendicular electrical displacement D.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 A. F. Young , C. R. Dean , I. Meric , S. Sorgenfrei , H. Ren , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , J. Hone , K. L. Shepard , P. Kim

Staking layered materials revealed to be a very powerful method to tailor their electronic properties. It has indeed been theoretically and experimentally shown that twisted bilayers of graphene (tBLG) with a rotation angle $\theta$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Omid Faizy Namarvar , Ahmed Missaoui , Laurence Magaud , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

Graphene bilayer systems are known to exhibit a band gap when the layer symmetry is broken, by applying a perpendicular electric field. The resulting band structure resembles that of a conventional semiconductor with a parabolic dispersion.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Søren Schou Gregersen , Jesper Goor Pedersen , Stephen R. Power , Antti-Pekka Jauho

We present non-linear transport measurements on suspended, current annealed bilayer graphene devices. Using a multi-terminal geometry we demonstrate that devices tend to be inhomogeneous and host two different electronic phases next to each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-14 Frank Freitag , Markus Weiss , Romain Maurand , Jelena Trbovic , Christian Schönenberger

We have examined the impact of charged impurity scattering on charge carrier transport in bilayer graphene (BLG) by deposition of potassium in ultra-high vacuum at low temperature. Charged impurity scattering gives a conductivity which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-26 Shudong Xiao , Jian-Hao Chen , Shaffique Adam , Ellen D. Williams , Michael S. Fuhrer

We have explored the electronic properties of stacked graphene flakes with the help of the quantum chemistry methods. We found that the behavior of a bilayer system is governed by the strength of the repulsive interactions that arise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Julia Berashevich , Tapash Chakraborty

Charge transport in topological insulators is primarily characterised by so-called topologically projected helical edge states, where charge carriers are correlated in spin and momentum. In principle, dissipation-less current can be carried…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Jesse A. Vaitkus , Cong Son Ho , Jared H. Cole

We investigate the ballistic electron transport in a monolayer graphene with configurational averaged impurities, located between two clean graphene leads. It is shown that the electron transmission are strongly dependent on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-28 Juan Sebastian Ardenghi , Pablo Bechthold , Estela Gonzalez , Paula Jasen , Alfredo Juan

We consider confinement of Dirac fermions in $AB$-stacked bilayer graphene by inhomogeneous on-site interactions, (pseudo-)magnetic field or inter-layer interaction. Working within the framework of four-band approximation, we focus on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Miguel Castillo-Celeita , Vít Jakubský , Kevin Zelaya

We analyze a class of bound defect states in the continuum electronic spectrum of bilayer materials, which emerge independent of symmetry protection or additional degrees of freedom. Taking graphene as a prototypical example, our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Daniel Massatt , Stephen P. Shipman , Ilya Vekhter , Justin H. Wilson

Bilayer graphene has drawn significant attention due to the opening of a band gap in its low energy electronic spectrum, which offers a promising route to electronic applications. The gap can be either tunable through an external electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Gregory M. Rutter , Suyong Jung , Nikolai N. Klimov , David B. Newell , Nikolai B. Zhitenev , Joseph A. Stroscio

We simulate the optical and electrical responses in gallium-doped graphene. Using density functional theory with a local density approximation, we simlutate the electronic band structure and show the effects of impurity doping (0-3.91\%) in…

By applying tight binding model of adatoms in graphene, we study theoretically the localized aspects of the interaction between transition metal atoms and graphene. Considering the electron-electron interaction by adding a Hubbard term in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-14 F. Escudero , J. S. Ardenghi , L. Sourrouille , P. Jasen , A. Juan