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Lateral superlattices have attracted major interest as this may allow one to modify spectra of two dimensional electron systems and, ultimately, create materials with tailored electronic properties. Previously, it proved difficult to…

The electronic properties of bilayer graphene strongly depend on relative orientation of the two atomic lattices. Whereas Bernal-stacked graphene is most commonly studied, a rotational mismatch between layers opens up a whole new field of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-15 Hennrik Schmidt , Johannes C. Rode , Dmitri Smirnov , Rolf J. Haug

We present electronic structure calculations of twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG): A tetralayer graphene structure composed of two AB-stacked graphene bilayers with a relative rotation angle between them. Using first-principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 F. J. Culchac , Rodrigo B. Capaz , Leonor Chico , E. Suarez Morell

We investigate graphene superlattices of nitrogen and boron substitutional defects and by using symmetry arguments and electronic structure calculations we show how such superlattices can be used to modify graphene band structure.…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-25 Simone Casolo , Rocco Martinazzo , Gian Franco Tantardini

Electronic analogue of generalized Goos-H\"{a}nchen shifts is investigated in the monolayer graphene superlattice with one-dimensional periodic potentials of square barriers. It is found that the lateral shifts for the electron beam…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Xi Chen , Pei-Liang Zhao , Xiao-Jing Lu , Li-Gang Wang

The electronic properties of hydrogenated graphenes are investigated with the first-principles calculations. Geometric structures, energy bands, charge distributions, and density of states (DOS) strongly depend on the different…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-09 Hao-Chun Huang , Shih-Yang Lin , Chung-Lin Wu , Ming-Fa Lin

Dirac-electronic tunneling and nonlinear transport properties with both finite and zero energy bandgap are investigated for graphene with a tilted potential barrier under a bias. For validation, results from a finite-difference based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Farhana Anwar , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Ashwani Sharma

We present a systematic Raman study of unconventionally-stacked double-layer graphene, and find that the spectrum strongly depends on the relative rotation angle between layers. Rotation-dependent trends in the position, width and intensity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-15 Kwanpyo Kim , Sinisa Coh , Liang Z. Tan , William Regan , Jong Min Yuk , Eric Chatterjee , M. F. Crommie , Marvin L. Cohen , Steven G. Louie , A. Zettl

An odd number of zigzag edges in armchair graphene nanoribbons and their mechanical properties (e.g., Young's modulus, Poisson ratio and shear modulus) have potential interest for bandgap engineering in graphene based optoelectronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-04 Sanjay Prabhakar , Roderick Melnik

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

A graphene superlattice is formed by a one-dimensional periodic potential and is characterized by the emergence of new Dirac points in the electronic structure. The group velocity of graphene's massless Dirac fermions at the new points is…

Due to low dimensionality, the controlled stacking of the graphene films and their electronic properties are susceptible to environmental changes including strain. The strain-induced modification of the electronic properties such as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 Zahra Khatibi , Afshin Namiranian , Fariborz Parhizgar

We calculate dc-conductivities of ballistic graphene undulated by a overlying moving unidirectional electrical superlattice (SL) potential whose SL-velocity is smaller than the electron velocity. We obtain no dependence of the conductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Jürgen Dietel , Hagen Kleinert

In graphene moir\'e superlattices, electronic interactions between layers are mostly hidden as band structures get crowded because of folding, making their interpretation cumbersome. Here, the evolution of the electronic band structure as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Francisco Sanchez-Ochoa , Andres Botello-Mendez , Cecilia Noguez

In twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG), chiral tunneling can be tuned by parameters such as the twist angle, barrier height, and Fermi energy. This differs from the tunneling behavior observed in monolayer and Bernal bilayer graphene, where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Nadia Benlakhouy , El Mustapha Feddi , Abdelouahed El Fatimy

Diverse emergent correlated electron phenomena have been observed in twisted graphene layers due to electronic interactions with the moir\'e superlattice potential. Many electronic structure predictions have been reported exploring this new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 J. E. Nunn , A. McEllistrim , A. Weston , A. Garcia-Ruiz , M. D. Watson , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , C. Cacho , R. Gorbachev , V. I. Fal'ko , N. R. Wilson

We demonstrate that graphene-based photonic superlattices provide a versatile platform for electrical and all-optical control of photonic beams with deep-subwavelength accuracy. Specifically, by inserting graphene sheets into periodic…

We theoretically investigate gate-defined graphene superlattices with broken inversion symmetry as a platform for realizing tunable valley dependent transport. Our analysis is motivated by recent experiments [C. Forsythe et al., Nat.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 Johannes H. J. Martiny , Kristen Kaasbjerg , Antti-Pekka Jauho

We study various mechanisms of electron transmission across the corrugations in the graphene sheet. The spin dependence of the electron transmission probability in the rippled graphene is found. The electrons mean free path and transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 M. Pudlak , R. G. Nazmitdinov

The recently demonstrated unconventional superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) opens the possibility for interesting applications of two-dimensional layers that involve correlated electron states. Here we explore the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-30 Stephen Carr , Shiang Fang , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Efthimios Kaxiras