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The observation of large nonlocal resistances near the Dirac point in graphene has been related to a variety of intrinsic Hall effects, where the spin or valley degrees of freedom are controlled by symmetry breaking mechanisms. Engineering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 Mário Ribeiro , Stephen R. Power , Stephan Roche , Luis. E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

The graphene membrane irradiated by weak activating alternative electric field in terahertz range was considered. The quantum approach based on the time-dependent density matrix method was used. The exact solution was obtained for graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 N. E. Firsova , Yu. A. Firsov

A stochastic nonlinear electrical characteristic of graphene is reported. Abrupt current changes are observed from voltage sweeps between the source and drain with an on/off ratio up to 10^(3). It is found that graphene channel experience…

Graphene membranes suspended off electric contacts or other rigid supports are prone to elastic strain, which is concentrated at the edges and corners of the samples. Such a strain leads to an algebraically varying effective magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-08 Elsa Prada , Pablo San-Jose , Gladys León , Michael M. Fogler , Francisco Guinea

Confinement of electrons in graphene to make devices has proven to be a challenging task. Electrostatic methods fail because of Klein tunneling, while etching into nanoribbons requires extreme control of edge terminations, and bottom-up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Y. Wu , D. Zhai , C. Pan , B. Cheng , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , N. Sandler , M. Bockrath

In this work, we investigated the effect of knots in the thermal transport of graphene nanoribbons through non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. We considered the cases of one, two, and three knots are present. Temperature jumps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-04 Levi C. Felix , Alexandre F. Fonseca , Douglas S. Galvao

Strongly correlated and topological phases in moir\'e materials are exquisitely sensitive to lattice geometry at both atomic and superlattice length scales. Twist angle, pressure, and strain directly modify the lattice, and thus act as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Xuetao Ma , Zhaoyu Liu , Jiaqi Cai , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Xiaodong Xu , Jiun-Haw Chu , Matthew Yankowitz

Raman spectroscopy is a powerful tool for characterizing the local properties of graphene. Here, we introduce a method for evaluating unknown strain configurations and simultaneous doping. It relies on separating the effects of hydrostatic…

This work presents a Euler-Bernoulli beam finite element (FE) model to study the interlayer interaction mechanics of graphene nanoribbon (GNR) over a graphene substrate. The FE model is calibrated using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Gourav Yadav , Aningi Mokhalingam , Roger A. Sauer , Shakti S. Gupta

Topological defects in graphene, dislocations and grain boundaries, are still not well understood despites the considerable number of experimental observations. We introduce a general approach for constructing dislocations in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-21 Oleg V. Yazyev , Steven G. Louie

Graphene is the nature's thinnest elastic membrane, with exceptional mechanical and electrical properties. We report the direct observation and creation of one-dimensional (1D) and 2D periodic ripples in suspended graphene sheets, using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-28 Wenzhong Bao , Feng Miao , Zhen Chen , Hang Zhang , Wanyoung Jang , Chris Dames , Chun Ning Lau

The stress transfer mechanism from a polymer substrate to a nano-inclusion, such as a graphene flake, is of extreme interest for the production of effective nanocomposites. Previous work conducted mainly at the micron scale has shown that…

Graphene is a truly two-dimensional atomic crystal with exceptional electronic and mechanical properties. Whereas conventional bulk and thin-film materials have been studied extensively, the key mechanical properties of graphene, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-25 Dipanjan Sen , Kostya S. Novoselov , Pedro M. Reis , Markus J. Buehler

Graphene, a two-dimensional material with a high mobility and a tunable conductivity, is uniquely suited for plasmonics. The frequency dispersion of plasmons in bulk graphene has been studied both theoretically and experimentally, whereas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jared H. Strait , Parinita S. Nene , Wei-Min Chan , Christina Manolatou , Joshua W. Kevek , Sandip Tiwari , Paul L. McEuen , Farhan Rana

For carbon-based materials, in contrast to metal surfaces, the relationship between strain and reactivity is not yet established, even though there are literature reports on strained graphene. Knowledge of such relationships would be…

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

Thin membranes exhibit complex responses to external forces or geometrical constraints. A familiar example is the wrinkling, exhibited by human skin, plant leaves, and fabrics, resulting from the relative ease of bending versus stretching.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Mahito Yamamoto , Olivier Pierre-Louis , Jia Huang , Michael S. Fuhrer , T. L. Einstein , William G. Cullen

The local variation in inter-atomic distances, or local lattice strain often influences significantly material properties of nanoparticles. Strain measurement with ~1% precision is provided by recent atomic-resolution electron microscopy.…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-09 Kohei Aso , Jens Maebe , Xuan Quy Tran , Tomokazu Yamamoto , Yoshifumi Oshima , Syo Matsumura

The effects of substrate on the electronic properties of Graphene remains unclear. Many theoretical and experimental efforts have been done to clarify this discrepancy. In this work, we studied the electronic transport in armchair Graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Shoeib Babaee Touski , Manouchehr hosseini

We study the 2D Raman band of in-plane uniaxially strained graphene within a non-orthogonal tight-binding model. At non-zero strain, the obtained 2D band splits into two subbands at strain angles $0^{\circ}$ and $30^{\circ}$ or into three…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 Valentin N. Popov , Philippe Lambin