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This work presents a platform that enables surface acoustic wave (SAW) modulation of both intralayer and interlayer excitons in MoS2/WSe2 heterostructures. Harnessing the coupled piezoelectric and strain fields of SAWs, this integrated…

Gallium nitride nanowire and nanorod substrates with different morphology are prospective platforms allowing to control the local strain distribution in graphene films top of them, resulting in an induction of pseudomagnetic fields. Atomic…

We aim to understand how the van der Waals force between neutral adatoms and a graphene layer is modified by uniaxial strain and electron correlation effects. A detailed analysis is presented for three atoms (He, H, and Na) and graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Nathan S. Nichols , Adrian Del Maestro , Carlos Wexler , Valeri N. Kotov

Low-phase-noise microwave-frequency integrated oscillators provide compact solutions for various applications in signal processing, communications, and sensing. Surface acoustic waves (SAW), featuring orders-of-magnitude shorter wavelength…

The generation of spin currents is a key challenge in the field of spintronics. We propose using surface acoustic waves (SAWs) to generate spin currents in altermagnetic thin films, thereby realizing an acoustic spin splitter. Altermagnets,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Pieter M. Gunnink , Jairo Sinova , Alexander Mook

We propose a method to control surface phonon transport by weak magnetic fields based on the pumping of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) by magnetostriction. We predict that the magnetization dynamics of a nanowire on top of a dielectric films…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Xiang Zhang , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Tao Yu

We have studied the transmission of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in ferromagnetic/non-magnetic/ferromagnetic tryilayers. The SAW scattering matrix is studied for devices with various non-magnetic spacer thickness, which defines the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-02 Hiroki Matsumoto , Takuya Kawada , Mio Ishibashi , Masashi Kawaguchi , Masamitsu Hayashi

Graphene has many unique properties which make it an attractive material for fundamental study as well as for potential applications. In this paper, we report the first experimental study of process-induced defects and stress in graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-06-04 Zhen Hua Ni , Hao Min Wang , Yun Ma , Johnson Kasim , Yi Hong Wu , Ze Xiang Shen

The interaction of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) with liquids enables the production of aerosols with adjustable droplet sizes in the micrometer range expelled from a very compact source. Understanding the nonlinear acousto-hydrodynamics of…

Manipulation of mechanical motion at the micro-scale has been attracting continuous attention, leading to the successful implementation of various strategies with potential impact on classical and quantum information processing. We here…

Monolayer graphene was deposited on a Si wafer substrate decorated with SiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) and then exposed to aryl radicals that were generated in situ from their diazonium precursors. Using micro-Raman mapping, the aryl radicals…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-28 Q. Wu , Y. Wu , Y. Hao , J. Geng , M. Charlton , S. Chen , Y. Ren , H. Ji , H. Li , D. W. Boukhvalov , R. D. Piner , C. W. Bielawski , R. S. Ruoff

We use micro-focussed Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy ($\mu$BLS) to investigate surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in a GaN layer on a Si substrate at GHz frequencies. Furthermore, we discuss the concept of $\mu$BLS for SAWs and show…

Migrating active deicing capabilities to transparent materials with low thermal conductivity has a high potential to improve the operations of several seminal industries in the automotive, robotic, energy, and aerospace sectors. However,…

In this letter, we report a method to control reflection phase of microwaves using electrically tunable graphene devices. The device consists of mutually gated large-area graphene layers placed at a quarter-wave distance from a metallic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Osman Balci , Nurbek Kakenov , Coskun Kocabas

We present a theoretical study of spin-wave scattering by a twisted domain wall (DW) in a two-dimensional ferromagnet with easy-axis anisotropy. While the twisted DW generates an effective gauge field for spin waves, leading to a deflection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Ehsan Faridi , Se Kwon Kim , Giovanni Vignale

We show the evolution of Raman spectra with number of graphene layers on different substrates, SiO$_{2}$/Si and conducting indium tin oxide (ITO) plate. The G mode peak position and the intensity ratio of G and 2D bands depend on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-10-24 Anindya Das , Biswanath Chakraborty , A. K. Sood

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) provide a contactless method for measuring the wavevector-dependent conductivity. This technique has been used to discover emergent length scales in the fractional quantum Hall regime of traditional,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Yawen Fang , Yang Xu , Kaifei Kang , Benyamin Davaji , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Amit Lal , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan , B. J. Ramshaw

Magneto Raman scattering study of the E$_{2g}$ optical phonons in multi-layer epitaxial graphene grown on a carbon face of SiC are presented. At 4.2K in magnetic field up to 33 T, we observe a series of well pronounced avoided crossings…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Faugeras , M. Amado , P. Kossacki , M. Orlita , M. Sprinkle , C. Berger , W. A. de Heer , M. Potemski

We develop a theoretical framework for probing moir\'e phonon modes using Raman spectroscopy, and illustrate it with the example of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). These moir\'e phonons arise from interlayer sliding motion in twisted 2D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-24 Vitor Dantas , Héctor Ochoa , Rafael M. Fernandes , Natalia B. Perkins

Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) devices featuring Aluminum Scandium Nitride (AlScN) on a 4H-Silicon Carbide (SiC) substrate, offer a unique blend of high sound velocity, low thermal resistance, substantial piezoelectric response, simplified…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Xingyu Du , Nishant Sharma , Zichen Tang , Chloe Leblanc , Deep Jariwala , Roy H. Olsson