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Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-28 Hao Wang , Milinda Randeniya , Austin Houston , Gerd Duscher , Gong Gu

Since its first isolation in 2004, graphene has been found to host a plethora of unusual electronic transport phenomena, making it a fascinating system for fundamental studies in condensed-matter physics as well as offering tremendous…

Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) is a powerful tool for studying contact electrification at the nanoscale, but converting KPFM voltage maps to charge density maps is non-trivial due to long-range forces and complex system geometry. Here…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-30 Felix Pertl , Juan Carlos Sobarzo , Lubuna Shafeek , Tobias Cramer , Scott Waitukaitis

Graphene and its heterostructures exhibit interesting electronic properties and are explored for quantum spin Hall effect(QSHE) and magnetism based device applications. In present work, we propose a heterostructure of graphene encapsulated…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-07 Mohammed Ghadiyali , Sajeev Chacko

Optoelectronic devices based on graphene and other two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are the focus of wide research interest. The characterization these emerging atomically thin materials and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-05-09 Adolfo De Sanctis , Gareth F. Jones , Nicola J. Townsend , Monica F. Craciun , Saverio Russo

High resolution nanoscale imaging in liquid environments is crucial for studying molecular interactions in biological and chemical systems. In particular, electron microscopy is the gold-standard tool for nanoscale imaging, but its…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-20 Wayne Yang , Yuning Zhang , Michael Hilke , Walter Reisner

Graphene plasmons were predicted to possess ultra-strong field confinement and very low damping at the same time, enabling new classes of devices for deep subwavelength metamaterials, single-photon nonlinearities, extraordinarily strong…

Graphene (GR) remarkable mechanical and electrical properties - such as its Young's modulus, low mass per unit area, natural atomic flatness and electrical conductance - would make it an ideal material for micro and nanoelectromechanical…

In order to take advantage of the enormous potential of graphene for future electronic micro-circuits and other applications it is necessary to develop reliable, rapid and widely applicable methods to visualize graphene based structures. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-15 Hugo Gonçalves , Michael Belsley , Cacilda Moura , Tobias Stauber , Peter Schellenberg

Graphene has extraordinary mechanical and electronic properties, making it a promising material for membrane based nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). Here, chemical-vapor-deposited graphene is transferred onto target substrates to…

The rapid development of nanoscience and nanotechnology in the last two decades was stimulated by the emergence of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques capable of accessing local material properties, including transport, mechanical,…

Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice with remarkable mechanical and electrical properties. Regarded as the thinnest and narrowest conductive mesh, it has drastically different transmission behaviours…

Nanometer-scale imaging of magnetization and current density is the key to deciphering the mechanisms behind a variety of new and poorly understood condensed matter phenomena. The recently discovered correlated states hosted in atomically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 Estefani Marchiori , Lorenzo Ceccarelli , Nicola Rossi , Luca Lorenzelli , Christian L. Degen , Martino Poggio

We use a cooled Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM) to electron motion in nanoscale devices. The charged tip of the SPM is raster scanned at a constant height above the surface as the conductance of the device is measured. The image charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Sagar Bhandari , Gil-Ho Lee , Philip Kim , Robert M. Westervelt

In 2D field effect transistors the gate electrostatically dopes the 2D semiconductor (2DSC) channel, tuning the Fermi level. In principle, Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) can detect the Fermi level, and its dependence on gate bias as…

Plasmons --the collective oscillations of electrons in conducting materials-- play a pivotal role in nanophotonics because of their ability to couple electronic and photonic degrees of freedom. In particular, plasmons in graphene --the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-08 Renwen Yu , F. Javier García de Abajo

Graphene, a thinnest material in the world, can form moire structures on different substrates, including graphite, h-BN, or metal surfaces. In such systems the structure of graphene, i. e. its corrugation, as well as its electronic and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 Elena Voloshina , Yuriy Dedkov

Results of a study on the electrochemical properties of exfoliated single and multilayer graphene flakes are presented. Graphene flakes were deposited on silicon/silicon oxide wafers to enable fast and accurate characterization by optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-11 Anna T. Valota , Ian A. Kinloch , Kostya S. Novoselov , Cinzia Casiraghi , Axel Eckmann , Ernie W. Hill , Robert A. W. Dryfe

The remarkable properties of graphene are inherent to its 2D honeycomb lattice structure. Its low dimensionality, which makes it possible to rearrange the atoms by applying an external force, offers the intriguing prospect of mechanically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-09 Yuhang Jiang , Jinhai Mao , Junxi Duan , Xinyuan Lai , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Eva Y. Andrei

Contact electrification (CE) remains a critical challenge in advanced material technologies where uncontrolled surface charging can compromise manufacturability, reliability, and performance in practical applications. Ultrathin glass with…