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In this review, we present recent works on materials whose common point is the presence of electronic bands of very low dispersion, called "flat bands", which are due to specific atomic order effects without electron interactions. These…

Graphene placed in a magnetic field possesses an extremely high mid/far-infrared optical nonlinearity originating from its unusual band structure and selection rules for the optical transitions near the Dirac point. Here we study the linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-26 Xianghan Yao , Alexey Belyanin

The electronic properties of graphene are unique and are attracting increased attention to this novel 2-dimensional system. Its photonic properties are not less impressive. For example, this single atomic layer absorbs through direct…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-12-25 Fengnian Xia , Thomas Mueller , Yu-ming Lin , Alberto Valdes-Garcia , Phaedon Avouris

Subwavelength aperture arrays in thin metal films can enable enhanced transmission of light and matter (atom) waves. The phenomenon relies on resonant excitation and interference of the plasmon or matter waves on the metal surface. We show…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. V. Kukhlevsky

The low energy spectrum of a particle in planar honeycomb lattices is conical, which leads to the unusual electronic properties of graphene. In this letter we calculate the quasienergy spectra of a charged particle in honeycomb lattices…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Wei Zhang , Ping Zhang , Suqing Duan , Xian-Geng Zhao

We study dispersion properties of TM-polarized electromagnetic waves guided by a multilayer graphene metamaterial. We demonstrate that both dispersion and localization of the guided modes can be efficiently controlled by changing the number…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Daria Smirnova , Ivan Iorsh , Ilya Shadrivov , Yuri Kivshar

We study the tunneling behavior of Dirac fermions in graphene subjected to a double barrier potential profile created by spatially overlapping laser fields. By modulating the graphene sheet with an oscillating structure formed from two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Rachid El Aitouni , Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal

Molecules intercalating two-dimensional (2D) materials form complex structures that have been mostly characterized by spatially averaged techniques. Here we use aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy and…

The electronic transport properties of graphene-based superlattice structures are investigated. A graphene-based modulation-doped superlattice structure geometry is proposed and consist of periodically arranged alternate layers:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 Dima Bolmatov , Chung-Yu Mou

A transfer matrix method is developed for optical calculations of non-interacting graphene layers. Within the framework of this method, optical properties such as reflection, transmission and absorption for single-, double- and multi-layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-10 Tianrong Zhan , Xi Shi , Yunyun Dai , Xiaohan Liu , Jian Zi

Few-layer graphene is a layered carbon material with covalent bonding in the layers and weak van der Waals interactions between the layers. The interlayer energy is more than two orders of magnitude smaller than the intralayer one, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-24 Valentin N. Popov , Christian Van Alsenoy

Graphene has shown great application opportunities in future nanoelectronic devices due to its outstanding electronic properties. Moreover, its impressive optical properties have been attracting the interest of researchers, and, recently,…

We study the radiative heat transfer between multilayer structures made by a periodic repetition of a graphene sheet and a hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) slab. Surface plasmons in a monolayer graphene can couple with a hyperbolic phonon…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-05 Bo Zhao , Brahim Guizal , Zhuomin M. Zhang , Shanhui Fan , Mauro Antezza

Two-dimensional materials with hexagonal symmetry such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides} are unique materials to study light-field-controlled electron dynamics inside of a solid. Around the $K$-point, the dispersion relation…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-14 Christian Heide , Tobias Boolakee , Takuya Higuchi , Peter Hommelhoff

We investigate the electronic band structure and transport properties of periodically alternating mono- and bi-layer graphene superlattices (MBLG SLs). In such MBLG SLs, there exists a zero-averaged wave vector (zero-$\overline{k}$) gap…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-22 Xiong Fan , Wenjun Huang , Tianxing Ma , Li-Gang Wang , Hai-Qing Lin

We investigate the structural and electronic properties of Li-intercalated monolayer graphene on SiC(0001) using combined angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and first-principles density functional theory. Li intercalates at room…

A novel type of photonic crystal formed by embedding a periodic array of constituent stacks of alternating graphene and dielectric discs into a background dielectric medium is proposed. The photonic band structure and transmittance of such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-21 Oleg L. Berman , Vladimir S. Boyko , Roman Ya. Kezerashvili , Anton A. Kolesnikov , Yurii E. Lozovik

Graphene is an attractive material for microelectronics applications, given such favourable electrical characteristics as high mobility, high operating frequency, and good stability. If graphene is to be implemented in electronic devices on…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-14 B. C. Worley , S. Kim , T. J. Ha , S. Park , R. Haws , P. Rossky , D. Akinwande , A. Dodabalapur

We analyze the features of the graphene mono- and multilayer reflectance in the far-infrared region as a function of frequency, temperature, and carrier density taking the intraband conductance and the interband electron absorbtion into…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 L. A. Falkovsky

This article presents experimental results on properties of waves propagating in an unbounded and a bounded photonic crystal consisting of metallic cylinders which are arranged in a triangular lattice. First, we present transmission…

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