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Uniaxial strain is known to modify significantly the electronic properties of graphene, a carbon single layer of atomic width. Here, we study the effect of applied strain on the composite excitations arising from the coupling of charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

We study the electronic properties of commensurate faulted bilayer graphene by diagonalizing the one-particle Hamiltonian of the bilayer system in a complete basis of Bloch states of the individual graphene layers. Our novel approach is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 M. Van der Donck , C. De Beule , B. Partoens , F. M. Peeters , B. Van Duppen

We discuss the renormalization of the polarizability of a nanoparticle in the presence of either (i) a continuous graphene sheet or (ii) a plasmonic graphene grating, taking into account retardation effects. Our analysis demonstrates that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Bruno Amorim , P. A. D. Gonçalves , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. M. R. Peres

We present a molecular modeling study analyzing nanometer-scale strain variations in graphene as a function of externally applied tensile strain. We consider two different mechanisms that could underlie nanometer-scale strain variations:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-30 G. J. Verbiest , C. Stampfer , S. E. Huber , M. Andersen , K. Reuter

A method for inducing nonuniform strain in graphene films is developed. Pillars made of a dielectric material (electron beam resist) are placed between graphene and the substrate, and graphene sections between pillars are attached to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hikari Tomori , Akinobu Kanda , Hidenori Goto , Youiti Ootuka , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi , Satoshi Moriyama , Eiichiro Watanabe , Daiju Tsuya

We address the intrinsic polarisation and screening of external electric field in a broad range of ordered and twisted configurations of multilayer graphene, using an ab initio approach combining density functional theory and the Wannier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-11 Nikita V. Tepliakov , QuanSheng Wu , Oleg V. Yazyev

The chapter generalizes results on influence of uniaxial strain and adsorption on the electron states and charge transport or localization in graphene with different configurations of imperfections (point defects): resonant (neutral)…

Strain, both naturally occurring and deliberately engineered, can have a considerable effect on the structural and electronic properties of 2D and layered materials. Uniaxial or biaxial heterostrain modifies the stacking arrangement of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-19 Nina C. Georgoulea , Stephen R. Power , Nuala M. Caffrey

The review is focused on our recent predictions of nontrivial physical phenomena taking place in the nanostructure single-layer grapheme on ferroelectric substrate, which are related with magnetic field. In particular we predicted that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Maksym V. Strikha , Anna N. Morozovska , Zhanna G. Zemska

Flexoelectricity is a universal effect that generates electric polarization due to broken inversion symmetry caused by local strain gradient. The large strain gradient at nanoscale makes flexo-electric effects, especially in nanoscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-30 Xin Li , Guodong Ren , Yu Yun , Arashdeep Singh Thind , Amit Kumar Shah , Abbey Bowers , Rohan Mishra , Xiaoshan Xu

Flexoelectricity, a coupling between strain gradients and electric polarization, has attracted significant interest due to its critical role in enhanced effects at small scales and its applicability across a diverse range of materials.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Arash Kazemi , Kshiteej J Deshmukh , Susan Trolier-McKinstry , Shad Roundy

Strain engineering has been recently recognized as an effective way to tailor the electrical properties of graphene. In the optical domain, effects such as strain-induced anisotropic absorption add an appealing functionality to graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-31 Guang-Xin Ni , Hong-Zhi Yang , Wei Ji , Seung-Jae Baeck , Chee-Tat Toh , Jong-Hyun Ahn , Vitor M. Pereira , Barbaros Özyilmaz

We evaluate the optical reflectivity for a uniaxially strained graphene single layer between a SiO2 substrate and air. A tight binding model for the band dispersion of graphene is employed. As a function of the strain modulus and direction,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-04 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

Ferroelectricity is intriguing for its spontaneous electric polarization, which is switchable by an external electric field. Expanding ferroelectric materials to two-dimensional limit will provide versatile applications for the development…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Le Zhang , Jing Ding , Hanxiao Xiang , Naitian Liu , Wenqiang Zhou , Linfeng Wu , Na Xin , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Shuigang Xu

Within the tight binding approximation, we study the dependence of the electronic band structure and of the optical conductivity of a graphene single layer on the modulus and direction of applied uniaxial strain. While the Dirac cone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-15 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

X-ray analysis of ferroelectric thin layers of Ba1/2Sr1/2TiO3 with different thickness reveals the presence of internal strain gradients across the film thickness and allows us to propose a functional form for the internal strain profile.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Catalan , B. Noheda , J. McAneney , L. Sinnamon , J. M. Gregg

We study the interaction of electromagnetic (EM) radiation with single-layer graphene and a stack of parallel graphene sheets at arbitrary angles of incidence. It is found that the behavior is qualitatively different for transverse magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 Yuliy V. Bludov , Nuno M. R. Peres , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy

We derive the general Fresnel coefficients for reflection by incorporating the Fizeau drag effect in doped graphene, which arises from the unique behavior of its massless Dirac electrons. Using the standard Maxwell equations and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Rafi Ud Din , Yuncheng Zhou , Reza Asgari , Gao Xianlong

The flexoelectric and electronic properties of zig-zag graphene nanoribbons are explored under mechanical bending using state of the art first principles calculations. A linear dependence of the bending induced out of plane polarization on…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-03 Tribhuwan Pandey , Lucian Covaci , Francois M. Peeters

Most non-ferroelectric two-dimensional materials can be endowed with so-called sliding ferroelectricity via non-equivalent homo-bilayer stacking, which is not applicable to mono-element systems like pure graphene bilayer with inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Liu Yang , Shiping Ding , Jinhua Gao , Menghao Wu