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We study the superconducting phase transition, both in a graphene bilayer and in graphite. For that purpose we derive the mean-field effective potential for a stack of graphene layers presenting hopping between adjacent sheets. For…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-05 Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes , E. C. Marino , A. L. Mota

This study examines the potential of superconductivity in transition metal (TM) intercalated bilayer graphene through a systematic study of the electronic and magnetic properties. We determine the electronic structure for all first row TM…

We measure the adsorption height of hydrogen-intercalated quasi-free-standing monolayer graphene on the (0001) face of 6H silicon carbide by the normal incidence x-ray standing wave technique. A density functional calculation for the full…

We present a structural analysis of the graphene-4HSiC(0001) interface using surface x-ray reflectivity. We find that the interface is composed of an extended reconstruction of two SiC bilayers. The interface directly below the first…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Hass , J. E. Millan-Otoya , P. N. First , E. H. Conrad

We present an orbital-resolved density functional theory study on the electronic properties of hydrogen and lithium intercalated graphene grown on the Si face of SiC. Starting from the $(6\sqrt3\times6\sqrt3)R30^{\circ}$ surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 I. Deretzis , A. La Magna

Intercalation is an established technique for tailoring the electronic structure of epitaxial graphene. Moreover, it enables the synthesis of otherwise unstable two-dimensional (2D) layers of elements with unique physical properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Bharti Matta , Philipp Rosenzweig , Olaf Bolkenbaas , Kathrin Küster , Ulrich Starke

We present a systematical study via scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) on the effect of the exposure of Lithium (Li) on graphene on silicon carbide (SiC). We have investigated Li deposition both…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-29 Sara Fiori , Yuya Murata , Stefano Veronesi , Antonio Rossi , Camilla Coletti , Stefan Heun

The intercalant alkaline metals, Ca, Sr, & Ba, are sources of a periodic perturbation on the bilayer graphene, which leads to the formation of an N-type semiconductors. The twist angle between graphene layers applies disorder to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-03 N K R Perera , K M Abeywickrama , W W P De Silva

We have performed photoemission studies of the electronic structure in LiC$_6$ and KC$_8$, a non-superconducting and a superconducting graphite intercalation compound, respectively. We have found that the charge transfer from the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-05-20 Z. -H. Pan , J. Camacho , M. H. Upton , A. V. Fedorov , C. A. Howard , M. Ellerby , T. Valla

The ongoing efforts to optimize Li-ion batteries led to the interest in intercalation of nanoscale layered compounds, including bilayer graphene. Its lithium intercalation has been demonstrated recently but the mechanisms underpinning the…

The field of superconductivity in the class of materials known as graphite intercalation compounds has a history dating back to the 1960s. This paper recontextualizes the field in light of the discovery of superconductivity in CaC6 and YbC6…

Graphene intercalation materials are potentially promising for the implementation of the ultra-low power, excitonic-condensate-based Bilayer pseudoSpin Field-Effect Transistor (BiSFET) concept, as well as other novel device concepts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-13 Priyamvada Jadaun , Hema C. P. Movva , Leonard F. Register , Sanjay K. Banerjee

Built on a realistic multiband tight-binding model, mirror symmetry is used to map a calcium-intercalated bilayer graphene Hamiltonian into two independent single layer graphene-like Hamiltonians with renormalized hopping. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-03 Rouhollah Gholami , Rostam Moradian , Sina Moradian , Warren E. Pickett

It has been shown that the first C layer on the SiC(0001)(2{\times}2)C surface already exhibits graphene-like electronic structure, with linear pi bands near the Dirac point. Indeed, the (2{\times}2)C reconstruction, with a Si adatom and C…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 F. Hiebel , P. Mallet , J. -Y. Veuillen , L. Magaud

Previous experimental observations for H intercalation under graphene on SiC surfaces motivate clarification of configuration stabilities and kinetic processes related to intercalation. From first-principles density-functional-theory (DFT)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Yong Han , James W. Evans , Michael C. Tringides

This work introduces a new class of two-dimensional crystals with the structure AC$_8$XC$_8$, consisting of two layers of graphene, a chalcogen (X = O, S, Se, Te) intercalation layer, and an alkaline earth (A = Be, Ca, Mg, Sr, Ba) adlayer.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Tommy Li

In this letter we report the discovery of superconductivity in the isostructural graphite intercalation compounds C6Yb and C6Ca, with transition temperatures of 6.5K and 11.5K respectively. A structural characterisation of these compounds…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 Thomas E. Weller , Mark Ellerby , Siddharth S. Saxena , Robert P. Smith , Neal T. Skipper

Epitaxial graphene, grown on SiC(0001) surface, has been widely studied both experimentally and theoretically. It was found that first epitaxial graphene layer in such structures is a buffer layer i.e. there are no characteristic Dirac…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-13 Jakub Soltys , Jacek Piechota , Michal Lopuszynski , Stanislaw Krukowski

Quasi-free standing epitaxial graphene is obtained on SiC(0001) by hydrogen intercalation. The hydrogen moves between the 6root3 reconstructed initial carbon layer and the SiC substrate. The topmost Si atoms which for epitaxial graphene are…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-12-11 C. Riedl , C. Coletti , T. Iwasaki , A. A. Zakharov , U. Starke

We use angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to investigate the electronic structure of bilayer graphene at high n-doping and extreme displacement fields, created by intercalating epitaxial monolayer graphene on silicon carbide with…