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Control over minivalley polarization and interlayer coupling is demonstrated in double bilayer graphene twisted with an angle of 2.37$^\circ$. This intermediate angle is small enough for the minibands to form and large enough such that the…

Recent advances in chiral cavities that can couple coherently to two-dimensional materials have opened a powerful route to reshape electronic topology without an external drive. Here we establish the bulk-boundary correspondence for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Volker Karle , Oriana K. Diessel , Vasil Rokaj , Ceren B. Dağ

We have fabricated a centimeter-size single-layer graphene device, with a gate electrode, which can modulate the transmission of terahertz and infrared waves. Using time-domain terahertz spectroscopy and Fourier-transform infrared…

The Dirac equation is a paradigmatic model that describes a range of intriguing properties of relativistic spin-1/2 particles, from the existence of antiparticles to Klein tunneling. However, the Dirac-like equations have found application…

Single-layer graphenes subject to periodic lateral strains are artificial crystals that can support boundary spectra with an intrinsic polarity. These are analyzed by comparing the effects of periodic magnetic fields and strain-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Vo Tien Phong , E. J. Mele

The electrical conductivity of suspended graphene has recently been measured for the first time, and found to behave as \sigma ~ \sqrt{|n|} as expected for Dirac quasiparticles at large carrier density. The charge inhomogeneity is strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-14 Joaquín E. Drut , Timo A. Lähde , Eero Tölö

By taking into account the full four band energy spectrum, we calculate the transmission probability and conductance of electrons across symmetric and asymmetric double potential barrier with a confined interlayer potential difference in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-22 Hasan A. Alshehab , Hocine Bahlouli , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

We study theoretically "graphene-like" plasmonic metamaterials constituted by two-dimensional arrays of metallic nanoparticles, including perfect honeycomb structures with and without inversion symmetry, as well as generic bipartite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-16 Thomas Jebb Sturges , Claire Woollacott , Guillaume Weick , Eros Mariani

We study theoretically nonlinear propagation of light in a graphene monolayer. We show that the large intrinsic nonlinearity of graphene at optical frequencies enables the formation of quasi one-dimensional self-guided beams (spatial…

The band structure of Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene can be tuned using double-gated transistors to apply a perpendicular electric field that generates an interlayer potential energy difference $\Delta$. Dielectric breakdown limits the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Margherita Melegari , Brian Skinner , Ignacio Gutierrez-Lezama , Alberto F. Morpurgo

The theoretical description for the reflectivity properties of dielectric, metal and semiconductor plates coated with graphene is developed in the framework of the Dirac model. Graphene is described by the polarization tensor allowing the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-07 G. L. Klimchitskaya , C. C. Korikov , V. M. Petrov

Graphene is an attractive material for microelectronics applications, given such favourable electrical characteristics as high mobility, high operating frequency, and good stability. If graphene is to be implemented in electronic devices on…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-14 B. C. Worley , S. Kim , T. J. Ha , S. Park , R. Haws , P. Rossky , D. Akinwande , A. Dodabalapur

This paper presents an electrolytically gated broadband microwave sensor where atomically-thin graphene layers are integrated into coplanar waveguides and coupled with microfluidic channels. The interaction between a solution under test and…

Using a scenario of a hybridized mixture of localized bipolarons and conduction electrons, we demonstrate for the latter the simultaneous appearance of a pseudogap and of strong incoherent contributions to their quasi-particle spectrum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Ranninger , A. Romano

Strongly coupling materials to cavity fields can affect their electronic properties altering the phases of matter. We study the monolayer graphene whose electrons are coupled to both left and right circularly polarized photons, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Ceren B. Dag , Vasil Rokaj

Ab initio calculations indicate that topological-defect networks in graphene display the full variety of single-particle electronic structures, including Dirac-fermion null-gap semiconductors, as well as metallic and semiconducting systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-10 Joice da Silva-Araújo , H. Chacham , R. W. Nunes

We study the electromagnetic properties of a metamaterial consisting of polarizable (nano)particles and a single graphene sheet placed at the interface between two dielectrics. We show that the particle's polarizability is renormalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Jaime E. Santos , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. M. R. Peres , G. Smirnov , Yu. V. Bludov

The dispersion relation for the collective plasma excitations of optically dressed Dirac electrons in single and double graphene layers is calculated in the random-phase approximation. The presence of circularly polarized light gives rise…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Oleksiy Roslyak , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

We study the propagation of in-plane elastic waves in a soft thin strip; a specific geometrical and mechanical hybrid framework which we expect to exhibit Dirac-like cone. We separate the low frequencies guided modes (typically 100 Hz for a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-30 Maxime Lanoy , Fabrice Lemoult , Antonin Eddi , Claire Prada

Bilayer graphene has drawn significant attention due to the opening of a band gap in its low energy electronic spectrum, which offers a promising route to electronic applications. The gap can be either tunable through an external electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Gregory M. Rutter , Suyong Jung , Nikolai N. Klimov , David B. Newell , Nikolai B. Zhitenev , Joseph A. Stroscio