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We develop the tight-binding model to study electronic and optical properties of graphane. The strong sp3 chemical bondings among the carbon and hydrogen atoms induce a special band structure and thus lead to the rich optical excitations.…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-31 M. H. Lee , H. C. Chung , J. M. Lu , C. P. Chang , M. F. Lin

We have developed a device fabrication process to pattern graphene into nanostructures of arbitrary shape and control their electronic properties using local electrostatic gates. Electronic transport measurements have been used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-14 Barbaros Özyilmaz , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Dmitri Efetov , Dmitri A. Abanin , Leonid S. Levitov , Philip Kim

Electronic band structures in hydrogenated graphene are theoretically investigated by means of first-principle calculations and an effective tight-binding model. It is shown that regularly designed hydrogenation to graphene gives rise to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Yong-Cheng Jiang , Toshikaze Kariyado , Xiao Hu

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

The allure of all carbon electronics stems from the spread in physical properties, across all its allotropes. The scheme also harbours unique challenges, like tunability of band-gap, variability of doping and defect control. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Arijit Kayal , Harikrishnan Gopalakrishnan , Kingshuk Bandopadhyay , Amit Kumar , S. Ravi P. Silva , J. Mitra

We calculate, within the leading-order dynamical-screening approximation, the electron self-energy and spectral function at zero temperature for extrinsic (or gated/doped) graphene. We also calculate hot carrier inelastic scattering due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-12 E. H. Hwang , Ben Yu-Kuang Hu , S. Das Sarma

The interaction of graphene with metallic substrates reveals phenomena and properties of great relevance for applications in nanotechnology. In this review, the vibrational characterization by means of various inelastic scattering…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-08 Antonio Politano

Recent transport measurements on thin graphite films grown on SiC show large coherence lengths and anomalous integer quantum Hall effects expected for isolated graphene sheets. This is the case eventhough the layer-substrate epitaxy of…

A thorough understanding of the electronic structure is a necessary first step for the design of nanoelectronics, chemical/bio-sensors, electrocatalysts, and nanoplasmonics using graphene. As such, theoretical spectroscopic techniques to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-04 Duncan J. Mowbray

Transmission electron microscopy has been a promising candidate for mapping atomic orbitals for a long time. Here, we explore its capabilities by a first principles approach. For the example of defected graphene, exhibiting either an…

One of the enticing features common to most of the two-dimensional electronic systems that are currently at the forefront of materials science research is the ability to easily introduce a combination of planar deformations and bending in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-29 Gareth Wyn Jones , Vitor M. Pereira

A number of interesting properties of graphene and graphite are postulated to derive from the peculiar bandstructure of graphene. This bandstructure consists of conical electron and hole pockets that meet at a single point in momentum (k)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Aaron Bostwick , Taisuke Ohta , Thomas Seyller , K. Horn , Eli Rotenberg

We investigate the behaviour of the $\pi$-electrons under compression and the effect of the stacking order of graphene layers. First we find that electrons can hardly be squeezed through the $sp^2$ network, regardless of the stacking order.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-25 Yiwei Sun , David Holec , Dominik Nöger , David Dunstan , Colin Humphreys

The supercell approach enables us to treat the electronic structure of defective crystals, but the calculated energy bands are too complicated to understand or to compare with angle-resolved photoemission spectra because of inevitable zone…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-01 M. Farjam

Electronic properties of graphene oxides enriched by the strong chemical bondings are investigated using first-principle calculations. They are very sensitive to the changes in the number of graphene layer, stacking configuration, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-28 Ngoc Thanh Thuy Tran , Shih-Yang Lin , Yu-Tsung Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

We present several applications of the layered electron gas model to electron energy loss spectroscopy of free-standing films consisting of $N$ graphene layers in a scanning transmission electron microscope. Using a two-fluid model for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 V. Borka Jovanović , I. Radović , D. Borka , Z. L. Mišković

We report the exact solution of spectral problem for a graphene sheet framed by two armchair- and two zigzag-shaped boundaries. The solution is found for the $\pi$ electron Hamiltonian and gives, in particular, a closed analytic expression…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lyuba Malysheva , Alexander Onipko

Diverse emergent correlated electron phenomena have been observed in twisted graphene layers due to electronic interactions with the moir\'e superlattice potential. Many electronic structure predictions have been reported exploring this new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 J. E. Nunn , A. McEllistrim , A. Weston , A. Garcia-Ruiz , M. D. Watson , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , C. Cacho , R. Gorbachev , V. I. Fal'ko , N. R. Wilson

Cyclotron resonance has been measured in far-infrared transmission of GaAs/Al$_x$Ga$_{1-x}$As heterostructures with an etched hexagonal lateral superlattice. Non-linear dependence of the resonance position on magnetic field was observed as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-22 L. Nadvornik , M. Orlita , N. A. Goncharuk , L. Smrcka , V. Novak , V. Jurka , K. Hruska , Z. Vyborny , Z. R. Wasilewski , M. Potemski , K. Vyborny

Electronic carriers in graphene show a high carrier mobility at room temperature. Thus, this system is widely viewed as a potential future charge-based high-speed electronic-material to complement- or replace- silicon. At the same time, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 R. G. Mani , J. Hankinson , C. Berger , W. A. de Heer