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We propose use of disorder to produce a field effect transistor (FET) in biased bilayer and trilayer graphene. Modulation of the bias voltage can produce large variations in the conductance when the disorder's effects are confined to only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Dongwei Xu , Haiwen Liu , Vincent Sacksteder , Juntao Song , Hua Jiang , Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

We study the vibrational properties of graphene under combined shear and uniaxial tensile strain using density-functional perturbation theory. Shear strain always causes rippling instabilities with strain-dependent direction and wavelength;…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-14 Giulio Cocco , Vincenzo Fiorentini

We theoretically show that an interlayer bias voltage in the AB-stacked bilayer graphene nanoribbons with armchair edges induces an electric polarization along the ribbon. Both tight-binding and ab initio calculations consistently indicate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 Ryo Okugawa , Junya Tanaka , Takashi Koretsune , Susumu Saito , Shuichi Murakami

In this work, quantum Stirling engines based on monolayer, AB-stacked bilayer, and ABC-stacked trilayer graphene under perpendicular magnetic fields are analyzed. Performance maps of the useful work \((\eta W)\) reveal a robust optimum at…

We report a nano-infrared (IR) imaging study of trilayer graphene (TLG) with both ABA (Bernal) and ABC (rhombohedral) stacking orders using the scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscope (s-SNOM). With s-SNOM operating in the…

In this paper, we analytically investigate the electronic structure of Bernal stacking (AB stacking) graphene evolving from monolayer (a zero-gap semiconductor with a linear Dirac-like spectrum around the Fermi energy) to multi-layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. F. Wang , Huaixiu Zheng , Q. W. Shi , Jie Chen , Jinlong Yang , J. G. Hou

Twisted graphene bilayers develop highly localised states around AA-stacked regions for small twist angles. We show that interaction effects may induce either an antiferromagnetic (AF) and a ferromagnetic (F) polarization of said regions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Luis A. Gonzalez-Arraga , J. L. Lado , Francisco Guinea , Pablo San-Jose

We report planar tunneling spectroscopy measurements on metal-WSe$_2$-twisted bilayer graphene heterostructures across a broad range of gate and bias voltages. The observed experimental features are attributed to phonon-assisted tunneling…

Correct defect quantification in graphene samples is crucial both for fundamental and applied re-search. Raman spectroscopy represents the most widely used tool to identify defects in graphene. However, despite its extreme importance the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-22 Sara D. Costa , Johan Ek Weis , Otakar Frank , Martin Kalbac

We study the mid-infrared plasmonic response in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. Unlike its monolayer counterpart, bilayer graphene accommodates optically active phonon modes and a resonant interband transition at infrared frequencies. They…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 Tony Low , Francisco Guinea , Hugen Yan , Fengnian Xia , Phaedon Avouris

We address a simple but fundamental issue arising in the study of graphene, as well as of other systems that have a crystalline structure with more than one atom per unit cell. For these systems, the choice of the tight-binding basis is not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-15 Cristina Bena , Gilles Montambaux

We present ab initio calculations on the effect of in-plane equi-biaxial strain on the structural and electronic properties of hypothetical graphene-like GaN monolayer (ML-GaN). It was found that ML-GaN got buckled for compressive strain in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-28 Harihar Behera , Gautam Mukhopadhyay

Mechanical properties of graphene prepared by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) are not easily comparable to the properties of nearly perfect graphene prepared by mechanical cleavage. In this work, we attempt to investigate the mechanical…

Graphene [1] and its bilayer have generated tremendous excitement in the physics community due to their unique electronic properties [2]. The intrinsic physics of these materials, however, is partially masked by disorder, which can arise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-10 Benjamin E. Feldman , Jens Martin , Amir Yacoby

Despite the structures and properties of tilt grain boundaries of graphite surface and graphene have been extensively studied, their effect on the structures and electronic spectra of graphene layers has not been fully addressed. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-13 Long-Jing Yin , Jia-Bin Qiao , Wen-Xiao Wang , Zhao-Dong Chu , Kai Fen Zhang , Rui-Fen Dou , Chun Lei Gao , Jin-Feng Jia , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

The compressive strength of unidirectional fiber composites in the form of Kevlar yarn with a thin outer layer of graphene was investigated and modeled. Such fiber structure may be fabricated by using a strong chemical bond between Kevlar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-03 Karen S. Martirosyan , M. Zyskin

We present a comparative study of high carrier density transport in mono-, bi-, and trilayer graphene using electric-double-layer transistors to continuously tune the carrier density up to values exceeding 10^{14} cm^{-2}. Whereas in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 J. T. Ye , M. F. Craciun , M. Koshino , S. Russo , S. Inoue , H. T. Yuan , H. Shimotani , A. F. Morpurgo , Y. Iwasa

To determine the friction coefficient of graphene, micro-scale scratch tests are conducted on exfoliated and epitaxial graphene at ambient conditions. The experimental results show that the monolayer, bilayer, and trilayer graphene all…

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

Starting with twisted bilayer graphene, graphene-based moir\'e materials have recently been established as a new platform for studying strong electron correlations. In this paper, we study twisted graphene monolayers on trilayer graphene…