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The electronic and vibrational properties of 2D materials are dramatically altered by the formation of a moir\'e superlattice. The lowest-energy phonon modes of the superlattice are two acoustic branches (called phasons) that describe the…

In spite of their importance for understanding phonon transport phenomena in thin films and polycrystalline solids, the effects of boundary roughness scattering on phonon specularity and coherence are poorly understood because there is no…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-08 Zhun-Yong Ong , Georg Schusteritsch , Chris J. Pickard

We theoretically study various aspects of the electron-surface optical phonon interaction effects in graphene on a substrate made of polar materials. We calculate the electron self-energy in the presence of the surface phonon-mediated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-25 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We present a theoretical study of electron-phonon scattering effects in thin films made of a strong topological insulator. Phonons are modelled by isotropic elastic continuum theory with stress-free boundary conditions, and the interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-26 Sébastien Giraud , Arijit Kundu , Reinhold Egger

Understanding phonon scattering by topological defects in graphene is of particular interest for thermal management in graphene-based devices. We present a study that quantifies the roles of the different mechanisms governing defect phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-04 Ziming Zhu , Xiaolong Yang , Mingyuan Huang , Qingfeng He , Guang Yang , Zhao Wang

We calculate the theoretical contribution to the doping and temperature ($T$) dependence of electrical resistivity due to scattering by acoustic phonons in Bernal bilayer graphene (BBG) and rhombohedral trilayer graphene (RTG). We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Seth M. Davis , Yang-Zhi Chou , Fengcheng Wu , Sankar Das Sarma

To understand the essential properties of Dirac crystals, such as their thermal conductivity, we require models that consider the interaction between Dirac electrons and dispersive acoustic phonons. The exceptionally high thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Sina Kazemian , Giovanni Fanchini

Electron properties of graphene are described in terms of Dirac fermions. Here we thoroughly outline the elastic scattering theory for the two-dimensional massive Dirac fermions in the presence of an axially symmetric potential. While the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 D. S. Novikov

All-carbon heterostructures have been produced recently via focused ion beam patterning of single layer graphene. Amorphized graphene is similar to a graphene sheet in which some hexagons are replaced by a combination of pentagonal,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-07 B Mortazavi , Z Fan , LFC Pereira , A Harju , T Rabczuk

First principles-based predictions of lattice thermal conductivity (TC) from perturbation theory have achieved significant success. Usually, it only included three-phonon (3ph) scattering processes, only recently four-phonon (4ph)…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-25 H. F. Feng , B. Liu , Xin-Gao Gong , Zhi-Xin Guo

The inelastic scattering rates of quasiparticles in a two-dimensional d-wave superconductor, which arise from interactions with either acoustic phonons or other quasiparticles, are calculated within second order perturbation theory. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-08-29 J. Paaske , D. V. Khveshchenko

Despite many of the applications of graphene rely on its uneven stiffness and high thermal conductivity, the mechanical properties of graphene, and in general of all 2D materials, are still elusive. The harmonic theory predicts a quadratic…

We perform a detailed analysis of electronic polarizability of graphene with different theoretical approaches. From Kubo's linear response formalism, we give a general expression of frequency and wave-vector dependent polarizability within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Tao Zhu , Mauro Antezza , Jian-Sheng Wang

We present the full in-plane phonon dispersion of graphite obtained from inelastic x-ray scattering, including the optical and acoustic branches, as well as the mid-frequency range between the $K$ and $M$ points in the Brillouin zone, where…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Mohr , J. Maultzsch , E. Dobardzic , S. Reich , I. Milosevic , M. Damnjanovic , A. Bosak , M. Krisch , C. Thomsen

Recently observed magnetophonon resonances in the magnetoresistance of graphene are investigated using the Kubo formalism. This analysis provides a quantitative fit to the experimental data over a wide range of carrier densities. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 M. T. Greenaway , R. Krishna Kumar , P. Kumaravadivel , A. K. Geim , L. Eaves

Point defects exist widely in engineering materials and are known to scatter vibrational modes to reduce thermal conductivity. The Klemens description of point defect scattering is the most prolific analytical model for this effect. This…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-11 Ramya Gurunathan , Riley Hanus , Maxwell Dylla , Ankita Katre , G. Jeffrey Snyder

The temperature ($\it T$) dependence of electrical resistivity in graphene has been experimentally investigated between 10 and 400 K for samples prepared on various substrates; HfO$_2$, SiO$_2$ and h-BN. The resistivity of graphene shows a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-29 Y. G. You , J. H. Ahn , B. H. Park , Y. Kwon , E. E. B. Campbell , S. H. Jhang

Magneto-Raman scattering experiments from the surface of graphite reveal novel features associated to purely electronic excitations which are observed in addition to phonon-mediated resonances. Graphene-like and graphite domains are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Faugeras , M. Amado , P. Kossacki , M. Orlita , M. Kühne , A. A. L. Nicolet , Yu. I. Latyshev , M. Potemski

In this work, we resolved some controversial issues on the Bloch-Gr\"{u}neisen (BG) temperature in doped graphene via analytical and numerical calculations based on full inelastic electron-acoustic-phonon (EAP) scattering rate and various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Khoe Van Nguyen , Yia-Chung Chang

We calculate the inelastic scattering rates and the hot electron inelastic mean free paths for both monolayer and bilayer graphene on a polar substrate. We study the quasiparticle self-energy by taking into account both electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-05 Seongjin Ahn , E. H. Hwang , Hongki Min