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We investigate a well defined heterostructure constituted by magnetic Fe layers sandwiched between graphene (Gr) and Ir(111). The challenging task to avoid Fe-C solubility and Fe-Ir intermixing has been achieved with atomic controlled Fe…

Harnessing electronic excitations involving coherent coupling to bosonic modes is essential for the design and control of emergent phenomena in quantum materials [1]. In situations where charge carriers induce a lattice distortion due to…

Graphene, renowned for its exceptional electronic and optical properties as a robust 2D material, traditionally lacks electronic correlation effects. Proximity coupling offers a promising method to endow quantum materials with novel…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-14 Chitran Ghosal , Siheon Ryee , Zamin Mamiyev , Niklas Witt , Tim O. Wehling , Christoph Tegenkamp

Metamaterials and plasmonics are powerful tools for unconventional manipulation and harnessing of light. Metamaterials can be engineered to possess intriguing properties lacking in natural materials, such as negative refractive index.…

The ability of graphene to support long-lived, electrically tunable plasmons that interact strongly with light, combined with its highly nonlinear optical response, has generated great expectations for application of the atomically-thin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Joel D. Cox , Iván Silveiro , F. Javier García de Abajo

One- and two-layer graphene have recently been shown to feature new physical phenomena such as unconventional quantum Hall effects and prospects of supporting a non-silicon technological platform using epitaxial graphene. While both one-…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 C. P. Puls , N. E. Staley , Y. Liu

A periodic spatial modulation, as created by a moir\'e pattern, has been extensively studied with the view to engineer and tune the properties of graphene. Graphene encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) when slightly misaligned with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 M. Anđelković , S. P. Milovanović , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

The interaction between two different materials can present novel phenomena that are quite different from the physical properties observed when each material stands alone. Strong electronic correlations, such as magnetism and…

The unconventional properties of graphene, with a massless Dirac band dispersion and large coherence properties, have raised a large interest for applications in nanoelectronics. In this work, we emphasize that graphene two dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-27 Pierre Darancet , Valerio Olevano , Didier Mayou

Lateral superlattices have attracted major interest as this may allow one to modify spectra of two dimensional electron systems and, ultimately, create materials with tailored electronic properties. Previously, it proved difficult to…

Recent advances in twistronics of low-dimensional materials, such as bilayer graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides, have enabled a plethora of unusual phenomena associated with moir\'e physics. However, several of these effects…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-18 Guangwei Hu , Alex Krasnok , Yarden Mazor , Cheng-Wei Qiu , Andrea Alù

MXene-based heterostructures have received considerable interest owing to their unique properties. Herein, we examine various heterostructures of a prototypical MXene and graphene using density functional theory. We find that the adhesion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Rui Li , Weiwei Sun , Cheng Zhan , Paul R. C. Kent , De-en Jiang

Low-energy fermionic excitations in two-dimensional materials deviate from the conventional Schr\"odinger description and are instead governed by Dirac equations. Such Dirac fermions give rise to a variety of unconventional quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Xiang Liua , Zheng Taoa , Wenchen Luoa , Tapash Chakraborty

Van der Waals heterostuctures, made from stacks of two-dimensional materials, exhibit unique light-matter interactions and are promising for novel optoelectronic devices. The performance of such devices is governed by near-field coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 Guillaume Froehlicher , Etienne Lorchat , Stéphane Berciaud

The detailed study of the graphene (gr) moir\'e superlattices emerging due to the mismatch between the substrate's and gr-overlayer crystal lattices is inevitable because of its high technological relevance. However, little is known about…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 P. Süle , M. Szendrő

The interface between two-dimensional (2D) crystals often forms a Moire superstructure that imposes a new periodicity, which is a key element in realizing complex electronic phases as evidenced in twisted bilayer graphene. A combined angle…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-30 Hayoon Im , Suji Im , Kyoo Kim , Ji-Eun Lee , Jinwoong Hwang , Sung-Kwan Mo , Choongyu Hwang

Most studies on moir\'e superlattices formed from a stack of h-BN and graphene have focused on single layer graphene; graphene with multiple layers is less understood. Here, we show that a moir\'e superlattice of multilayer graphene shows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-02 Fumiya Mukai , Kota Horii , Ryoya Ebisuoka , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ryuta Yagi

The specific rotational alignment of two-dimensional lattices results in a moir\'e superlattice with a larger period than the original lattices and allows one to engineer the electronic band structure of such materials. So far, transport…

Graphene exhibits promise as a plasmonic material with high mode confinement that could enable efficient hot carrier extraction. We investigate the lifetimes and mean free paths of energetic carriers in free-standing graphene, graphite and…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-28 Prineha Narang , Litao Zhao , Steven Claybrook , Ravishankar Sundararaman

The vertical integration of multiple two-dimensional (2D) materials in heterostructures, held together by van der Waals forces, has opened unprecedented possibilities for modifying the (opto-)electronic properties of nanodevices. Graphene,…