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Interest in high entropy alloy thermoelectric materials is predicated on achieving ultralow lattice thermal conductivity $\kappa\sub{L}$ through large compositional disorder. However, here we show that for a given mechanism, such as mass…

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) provides an example of a system in which the interplay of interlayer interactions and superlattice structure impacts electron transport in a variety of non-trivial ways and gives rise to a plethora of…

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Electronic and thermoelectric transport in zigzag monolayer WSe$_2$ nanoribbons are studied under monochromatic irradiation. The electronic structure is described within a six-orbital tight-binding framework constructed from the relevant…

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Bilayer electron-hole systems undergo excitonic condensation when the distance d between the layers is smaller than the typical distance between particles within a layer. All excitons in this condensate have a fixed dipole moment which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yogesh N. Joglekar , Alexander V. Balatsky , Michael P. Lilly

We study the effects of charged impurity scattering on the electronic transport properties of <110>-oriented Si nanowires in a gate-all-around geometry, where the impurity potential is screened by the gate, gate oxide and conduction band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-07 Martin P. Persson , Hector Mera , Yann-Michel Niquet , Christophe Delerue , Mamadou Diarra

The effect of various dielectrics on charge mobility in single layer graphene is investigated. By calculating the remote optical phonon scattering arising from the polar substrates, and combining it with their effect on Coulombic impurity…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Aniruddha Konar , Tian Fang , Debdeep Jena

In this paper we investigate the electron-phonon coupling in bilayer graphene, as a paradigmatic case for multilayer graphenes where interlayer hoppings are relevant. Using a frozen-phonon approach within the context of Density Functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-09-04 E. Cappelluti , G. Profeta

While using first-principles-based Boltzmann transport equation approach to predict the thermal conductivity of crystalline semiconductor materials has been a routine, the validity of the approach is seldom tested for high-temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Xiaokun Gu , Shouhang Li , Hua Bao

We study the electrical modulation of the transport properties of silicene constrictions with different geometrical structures by adopting the tight-binding model and non-equilibrium Green's function method. The band structure and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Yawen Guo , Wenqi Jiang , Xinru Wang , Yijing Bai , Fei Wan , Guanqing Wang , Yuan Li

We study the variations of electron-phonon coupling and their spectroscopic consequences in response to sliding of two layers in bilayer graphene using first-principles calculations and a model Hamiltonian. Our study shows that the long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-25 Seon-Myeong Choi , Seung-Hoon Jhi , Young-Woo Son

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted significant interest due to their tunable physical properties when stacked into homo- and hetero-structures. Twisting adjacent layers introduces moir\'{e} patterns that strongly influence the…

Optical and electronic properties of black phosphorus strongly depend on the number of layers and type of stacking. Using first-principles calculations within the framework of density functional theory, we investigate the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 Cem Sevik , John R. Wallbank , Oguz Gulseren , Francois M. Peeters , Deniz Cakır

A method for the study of the electronic transport in strongly coupled electron-phonon systems is formalized and applied to a model of polyyne chains biased through metallic Au leads. We derive a stationary non equilibrium polaronic theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-09 A. La Magna , I. Deretzis , V. Privitera

Using the semiclassical Boltzmann transport theory, we analytically consider dc charge transport in gapless electron-hole (both chiral and non-chiral) systems in the presence of resistive scattering due to static disorder arising from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-11 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang

We study, within the tight-binding approximation, the electronic properties of a graphene bilayer in the presence of an external electric field applied perpendicular to the system -- \emph{biased bilayer}. The effect of the perpendicular…

By applying density functional theory calculations, we predict that the groundstate of bilayer silicene at certain interlayer distances can be antiferromagnetic. At small electron or hole doping, it becomes half metallic under applied…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-03 Xiao-Fang Ouyang , Ze-Yi Song , Yu-Zhong Zhang

In materials with strong electron-phonon ($e$-ph) interactions, the electrons carry a phonon cloud during their motion, forming quasiparticles known as polarons. Predicting charge transport and its temperature dependence in the polaron…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-03 Jin-Jian Zhou , Marco Bernardi

Porous graphene and graphite are increasingly utilized in electrochemical energy storage and solar-thermal applications due to their unique structural and thermal properties. In this study, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of the lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 John Crosby , Haoran Cui , Yan Wang

We investigate theoretically 2D electronic transport in Si:P $\delta$-doped layers limited by charged-dopant scattering. Since the carrier density is approximately equal to the dopant impurity density, the density dependent transport shows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-21 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Layered systems shows anisotropic transport properties. The interlayer conductivity show a general temperature dependence for a wide class of materials. This can be understood if conduction occurs in two different channels activated at…

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