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Strain-induced pseudo magnetic fields offer the possibility of realizing zero magnetic field Quantum Hall effect in graphene, possibly up to room temperature, representing a promising avenue for lossless charge transport applications.…

The difficulty in determining the mass of a sample increases as its size diminishes. At the nanoscale, there are no direct methods for resolving the mass of single molecules or nanoparticles and so more sophisticated approaches based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 Stas M. Avdoshenko , Claudia Gomes da Rocha , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

Nanomechanics, nanoacoustics, and nanophononics refer to the engineering of acoustic phonons and elastic waves at the nanoscale and their interactions with other excitations such as magnons, electrons, and photons. This engineering enables…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Priya , Edson R. Cardozo de Oliveira , Norberto D. Lanzillotti-Kimura

A fully planar two-dimensional optomechanical crystal formed in a silicon microchip is used to create a structure devoid of phonons in the GHz frequency range. A nanoscale photonic crystal cavity is placed inside the phononic bandgap…

Radio-frequency communication systems have long used bulk- and surface-acoustic-wave devices supporting ultrasonic mechanical waves to manipulate and sense signals. These devices have greatly improved our ability to process microwaves by…

Analysis of the strain-induced pseudomagnetic fields (PMFs) generated in graphene nanobulges under three different substrate scenarios shows that, in addition to the shape, the graphene-substrate interaction can crucially determine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-18 Zenan Qi , Alexander L. Kitt , Harold S. Park , Vitor M. Pereira , David K. Campbell , A. H. Castro Neto

Localized states in graphene have garnered significant attention in quantum information science due to their potential applications. Despite graphene's superior transport and electronic properties compared to other semiconductors, achieving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Seunghyun Jun , Myung-Chul Jung , Nojoon Myoung

We introduce nonparaxial spatially accelerating waves whose two-dimensional transverse profiles propagate along semicircular trajectories while approximately preserving their shape. We derive these waves by considering imaginary…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-13 Miguel A. Alonso , Miguel A. Bandres

Some new unusual physical phenomena and effects associated with dielectric mesoscale particles with Mie size parameter near 10 were studied and have been discovered during the last decade. In this paper, we propose nanoholes structured…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-16 Oleg V. Minin , Song Zhou , Yinghui Cao , Pavel Baranov , Igor V. Minin

Inspired by recent advancement of low-power ferroelectic-gated memories and transistors, we propose a design of ferroelectic-gated nanoplasmonic devices based on graphene sheets clamped in ferroelectric crystals. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-23 Dafei Jin , Anshuman Kumar , Kin Hung Fung , Jun Xu , Nicholas X. Fang

Nanostructuring materials at small scales enables control over their physical properties, revealing behaviors not observed at larger dimensions. This strategy is particularly effective in two-dimensional (2D) materials, where surface…

Chiral fields with large optical chirality are very important in chiral molecules analysis, sensing and other measurements. Plasmonic nanostructures have been proposed to realize such super chiral fields for enhancing weak chiral signals.…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-14 Xiaorui Tian , Yurui Fang , Mengtao Sun

Engineering the dispersion relation is one of the key ingredients enabling the application of spin waves in computational elements. One way to engineer the spin-wave band structure is to create an artificial magnonic crystal, which can be…

In the field of phononics, periodic patterning controls vibrations and thereby the flow of heat and sound in matter. Bandgaps arising in such phononic crystals realize low-dissipation vibrational modes and enable applications towards…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-26 Jan N. Kirchhof , Kristina Weinel , Sebastian Heeg , Victor Deinhart , Sviatoslav Kovalchuk , Katja Hoeflich , Kirill I. Bolotin

We demonstrate that circular graphene ring under a shear stress displays strong pseudo-magnetic fields. We calculate the pseudo-magnetic field both from continuum elasticity theory as well as molecular dynamics simulations. Stable wrinkles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Nima Abedpour , Reza Asgari , F. Guinea

The possibility of creating and manipulating nanostructured materials encouraged the exploration of new strategies to control electromagnetic properties. Among the most intriguing nanostructures are those that respond differently to helical…

A two-field model provides an unifying framework for elasticity, lattice dynamics and electromechanical coupling in graphene and carbon nanotubes, describes optical phonons, nontrivial acoustic branches, strain-induced gap opening,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Cristiano Nisoli , Paul E. Lammert , Eric Mockensturm , Vincent H. Crespi

The collective response of metal nanostructures to optical excitation leads to localized plasmon generation with nanoscale field confinement driving applications in e.g. quantum optics, optoelectronics, and nanophotonics, where a bottleneck…

Manipulation of magnetization by electric field is a central goal of spintronics because it enables energy-efficient operation of spin-based devices. Spin wave devices are promising candidates for low-power information processing but a…

In this work, we proposed new shape nanoparticles in the name of supershape nanoparticles by manipulation in the morphology of a disk nanoparticle. The electric field distribution of supershape nanoparticles were investigated at resonance…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-19 F. Babaei , M. Javidnasab , A. Rezaei