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Atomically thin monolayers of graphene show excellent electronic properties which have led to a great deal of research on their use in nanoscale devices. However, heat management of such nanoscale devices is essential in order to improve…

Novel uses for 2-dimensional materials like graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) are being frequently discovered especially for membrane and catalysis applications. Still however, a great deal remains to be understood about the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-25 Yasmine S. Al-Hamdani , Dario Alfè , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld , Angelos Michaelides

We demonstrate that freeing a single-atom thick layer of hexagonal boron nitride (hbn) from tight chemical bonding to a Ni(111) thin film grown on a W(110) substrate can be achieved by intercalation of Au atoms into the interface. This…

Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) is a highly sensitive and selective technique that greatly enhances the signal of an analyte, compared with its signal from classical Raman Spectroscopy, due to its interaction with a substrates…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-20 Jan Komeda , Antonio Cammarata , Tomas Polcar

Two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene offer a variety of outstanding properties for a wide range of applications. Their transport properties in particular present a rich field of study. However, the studies of transport properties…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-29 Nathan Dasenbrock-Gammon , Sachith Dissanayake , Ranga Dias

It is significant to prepare large area of high quality graphene for the study of the characteristics of graphene and the research of the nano-devices based on graphene. This paper summarizes the experiment progresses and mechanism of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-01 Tian Yuan , Zhao Qian-Ying , Hu Jing , Zhou Chen , Miao Ling , Jiang Jian-Jun

Graphene constitutes one of the key elements in many functional van der Waals heterostructures. However, it has negligible optical visibility due to its monolayer nature. Here we study the visibility of graphene in various van der Waals…

We calculate theoretically the disorder-limited conductivity of monolayer and bilayer graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) substrates, comparing our theoretical results with the recent experimental results. The comparison leads to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-17 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang

Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a precise and non-invasive analytical technique that is widely used in chemical analysis, environmental protection, food processing, pharmaceutics, and diagnostic biology. However, it is still a…

Integrating high-mobility graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) into spin transport devices is one of the key tasks in graphene spintronics. We use a van der Waals pickup technique to transfer CVD graphene by hexagonal boron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Marc Drögeler , Luca Banszerus , Frank Volmer , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Bernd Beschoten , Christoph Stampfer

Since lattice strain and charge density affect various material properties of graphene, a reliable and efficient method is required for quantification of the two variables. While Raman spectroscopy is sensitive and non-destructive, its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Gwanghyen Ahn , Sunmin Ryu

The pressure evolution of the Raman spectrum of graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition on polycrystalline copper is investigated with the use of a polar and a non-polar pressure transmitting medium (PTM). The G and 2D Raman bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-01 K. Filintoglou , N. Papadopoulos , J. Arvanitidis , D. Christofilos , O. Frank , M. Kalbac , J. Parthenios , G. Kalosakas , C. Galiotis , K. Papagelis

Accurate and simple local strain assessment in graphene is one of the crucial tasks in device characterization. Raman spectroscopy is often used for that purpose through monitoring of the G and 2D modes. However, the shifts of those two…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-27 Elena del Corro , Ladislav Kavan , Martin Kalbac , Otakar Frank

Graphene and graphene-based materials exhibit exceptional optical and electrical properties with great promise for novel applications in light detection. However, several challenges prevent the full exploitation of these properties in…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-20 Adolfo De Sanctis , Jake D. Mehew , Monica F. Craciun , Saverio Russo

Since advanced Silicon-based device components are moderately chemically tunable, doped graphene has emerged as a promising candidate to replace this semiconducting material in flexible miniaturized electronic devices. Indeed, heteroatom…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-27 Laura Caputo , Viet-Hung Nguyen , Jean-Christophe Charlier

Vertical graphene nanosheets (VGNs) are the material of choice for next-generation electronic device applications. The growing demand for flexible devices in electronic industry brings in restriction on growth temperature of the material of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-02 Gopinath Sahoo , Subrata Ghosh , S. R. Polaki , Tom Mathews , M. Kamruddin

The interaction between a graphene layer and a hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) substrate induces lateral displacements and strains in the graphene layer. The displacements lead to the appearance of commensurate regions and the existence of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 Pablo San-Jose , Ángel Gutiérrez , Mauricio Sturla , Francisco Guinea

Among two-dimensional atomic crystals, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is one of the most remarkable materials to fabricate heterostructures revealing unusual properties. We perform first-principles calculations to determine whether…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-09 Sohee Park , Changwon Park , Gunn Kim

In this article, we have theoretically investigated the performance of graphene-hexagonal Boron Nitride hyper crystals to demonstrate all angle negative refraction.Hexagonal Boron Nitride, the latest natural hyperbolic material; can be a…

The field of graphene research has developed rapidly since its first isolation by mechanical exfoliation in 2004. Due to the relativistic Dirac nature of its charge carriers, graphene is both a promising material for next-generation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 Matthew Yankowitz , Jiamin Xue , Brian J. LeRoy