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We study the orbital Hall effect (OHE) in the AC regime using bilayer graphene (BLG) as a prototypical material platform. While the unbiased BLG has gapless electronic spectra, applying a perpendicular electric field creates an energy band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Tarik P. Cysne , W. J. M. Kort-Kamp , Tatiana G. Rappoport

The static dielectric function in AA-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG), subjected to an electric field applied perpendicular to layers, is calculated analytically within the random phase approximation (RPA). This result is used to calculate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Yawar Mohammadi

Coherent motion of the electrons in the Bloch states is one of the fundamental concepts of the charge conduction in solid state physics. In layered materials, however, such a condition often breaks down for the interlayer conduction, when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Youngwook Kim , Hoyeol Yun , Seung-Geol Nam , Minhyeok Son , Dong Su Lee , Dong Chul Kim , S. Seo , Hee Cheul Choi , Hu-Jong Lee , Sang Wook Lee , Jun Sung Kim

We calculate the electronic band structure of ABA-stacked trilayer graphene in the presence of external gates, using a self-consistent Hartree approximation to take account of screening. In the absence of a gate potential, there are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mikito Koshino , Edward McCann

High mobility single and few-layer graphene sheets are in many ways attractive as nanoelectronic circuit hosts but lack energy gaps, which are essential to the operation of field-effect transistors. One of the methods used to create gaps in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Hakseong Kim , Nicolas Leconte , Bheema L. Chittari , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Allan H. MacDonald , Jeil Jung , Suyong Jung

We report on the investigation of periodic superstructures in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) van-der-Waals heterostructures, where one of the graphene layers is aligned to hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Our theoretical simulations reveal…

In this paper we propose a mechanism for the induction of energy gaps in the spectrum of graphene and its bilayer, when both these materials are covered with water and ammonia molecules. The energy gaps obtained are within the range 20-30…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-08-28 R. M. Ribeiro , N. M. R. Peres , J. Coutinho , P. R. Briddon

We report on the energy spectrum of electrons in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) obtained by the band-unfolding method in the tight-binding model. We find the band-gap opening at particular points in the reciprocal space, that elucidates…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-08 Hirofumi Nishi , Yu-ichiro Matsushita , Atsushi Oshiyama

With the two-band continuum model, we study the broken inversion and time-reversal symmetry state of electrons with finite-range repulsive interactions in bilayer graphene. With the analytical solution to the mean-field Hamiltonian, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-19 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

We present a theoretical study on the electron transmission through the AB-BA stacking boundary in multilayer graphene. Using the tight-binding model and the transfer matrix method, we calculate the electron transmission probability through…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-05 Nguyen N. T. Nam , Mikito Koshino

The ABC-stacked N-layer-graphene family of two-dimensional electron systems is described at low energies by two remarkably flat bands with Bloch states that have strongly momentum-dependent phase differences between carbon pi-orbital…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-12 Fan Zhang , Bhagawan Sahu , Hongki Min , Allan H. MacDonald

A transformation of the band structure in bilayer graphene (BLG) with relatively shifted layers has been studied in the framework of the tight-binding model. BLG is demonstrated to remain a zero-gap material in the whole range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 V. G. Litovchenko , A. I. Kurchak , M. V. Strikha

Charge transport at the Dirac point in bilayer graphene exhibits two dramatically different transport states, insulating and metallic, that occur in apparently otherwise indistinguishable experimental samples. We demonstrate that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-01 Sam Shallcross , Sangeeta Sharma , Heiko B. Weber

We study the effect of spatial modulations in the interlayer hopping of graphene bilayers, such as those that arise upon shearing or twisting. We show that their single-particle physics, characterized by charge accumulation and recurrent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-24 Pablo San-Jose , Jose Gonzalez , Francisco Guinea

In this work, we adopt first-principle calculations based on density functional theory and Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the adsorption and diffusion of lithium in bilayer graphene (BLG) as anodes in lithium-ion batteries.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Kehua Zhong , Ruina Hu , Guigui Xu , Yanmin Yang , Jian-Min Zhang , Zhigao Huang

Intrinsic spin Hall effect in the AA-stacked bilayer graphene is studied theoretically. The low-energy electronic spectrum for states in the vicinity of the Dirac points is obtained from the corresponding $\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{p}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Dyrdał , J. Barnaś

Graphene bilayer systems are known to exhibit a band gap when the layer symmetry is broken, by applying a perpendicular electric field. The resulting band structure resembles that of a conventional semiconductor with a parabolic dispersion.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Søren Schou Gregersen , Jesper Goor Pedersen , Stephen R. Power , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Using mean-field theory, we determine the electronic phase diagram of undoped AB-stacked bilayer graphene in the presence of a transverse electric field. In addition to multiple competing electronic instabilities characterized by excitonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov , A. L. Rakhmanov

There is a tunable band gap in ABC-stacked few-layer graphene (FLG) via applying a vertical electric field, but the operation of FLG-based field effect transistor (FET) requires two gates to create a band gap and tune channel's conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-23 Ruge Quhe , Jianhua Ma , Zesheng Zeng , Kechao Tang , Jiaxin Zheng , Yangyang Wang , Zeyuan Ni , Lu Wang , Zhengxiang Gao , Junjie Shi , Jing Lu

We show that a domain wall separating single layer graphene (SLG) and AA-stacked bilayer graphene (AA-BLG) can be used to generate highly collimated electron beams which can be steered by a magnetic field. Such system exists in two distinct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Hasan M. Abdullah , D. R. da Costa , H. Bahlouli , A. Chaves , F. M. Peeters , Ben Van Duppen