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Quantum confinement endows two-dimensional (2D) layered materials with exceptional physics and novel properties compared to their bulk counterparts. Although certain two- and few-layer configurations of graphene have been realized and…

Graphene has been considered by many as a revolutionary material with electronic and structural properties that surpass conventional semiconductors and metals. Due to its superlative qualities, graphene is being considered as the reference…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-26 Antonio H. Castro Neto

Graphene is a monolayer graphitic film in which electrons behave like two-dimensional Dirac fermions without mass. Its study has attracted a wide interest in the domain of condensed matter physics. In particular, it represents an ideal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 William Borrelli , Umberto Morellini

I present a concise account concerning the emergence of a research field, which deals with the thermal properties of graphene, covering the refinement of understanding of phonon transport in two-dimensional material systems. The practical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Alexander A. Balandin

New solution for two interpenetrating universes is found. Higher derivative gravity acting in 6-dimensional space is the basis of the study that allows to obtain stable solution without introducing matter of any sort. Stability of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-20 Sergey G. Rubin

Discoveries of graphene and graphane possessing unique electronic and magnetic properties offer a bright future for carbon based electronics, with future prospects of superseding silicon in the semiconductor industry.

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-13 Julia Berashevich , Tapash Chakraborty

This review on graphene, a one atom thick, two-dimensional sheet of carbon atoms, starts with a general description of the graphene electronic structure as well as a basic experimental toolkit for identifying and handling this material.…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-22 Caterina Soldano , Ather Mahmood , Erik Dujardin

Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 was given for "groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene." In fact, before graphene has been extracted from graphite and measured, some of its fundamental physical properties have…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-23 Yakov Kopelevich , Igor A. Luk'yanchuk

Electrons in two-dimensional graphene sheets behave as interacting chiral Dirac fermions and have unique screening properties due to their symmetry and reduced dimensionality. By using a combination of scanning tunneling spectroscopy…

Graphene is a new material that exhibits remarkable properties from both fundamental and applied issues. This is a 2D matter system whose physical and mechanical features have been approached by using tight binding model, first principle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-10 Lalla Btissam Drissi , El Hassan Saidi , Mosto Bousmina

Among various 2D materials, graphene has received extensive research attention in the past 2-30 years due to its fascinating properties. The discovery of graphene has provided a huge boost and a new dimension to materials research and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 S. Y. Gao , Y. F. Jiang , J. W. Sun , Z. H. Zhang

Graphene-metal interface as one of the interesting graphene-based objects attracts much attention from both application and fundamental science points of view. This paper gives a timely review of the recent experimental works on the growth…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-10 Yuriy Dedkov , Elena Voloshina

Exploration of the unusual properties of the two-dimensional materials silicene and germanene is a very active research field in recent years. This article therefore reviews the latest developments, focusing both on the fundamental…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-02 T. P. Kaloni , G. Schreckenbach , M. S. Freund , U. Schwingenschlögl

Bilayer graphene cavities where electrons are confined within finite graphene flakes provide an alluring platform not only for the future nanoelectronic devices owing to the tunable energy gap but also for investigating the quantum nature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Jucheng Lin , Yicheng Zhuang , Anton M. Graf , Joonas Keski-Rahkonen , Eric J. Heller

We provide a detailed analysis of the electronic properties of graphene-like materials with charge carriers living on a curved substrate, focusing in particular on constant negative-curvature spacetime. An explicit parametrization is also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-27 Antonio Gallerati

An effective quantum field theory description of graphene in the ultra-relativistic regime is given by reduced QED aka. pseudo QED aka. mixed-dimensional QED. It has been speculated in the literature that reduced QED constitutes an example…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-06 D. Dudal , A. J. Mizher , P. Pais

Two rich and vibrant fields of investigation, graphene physics and plasmonics, strongly overlap. Not only does graphene possess intrinsic plasmons that are tunable and adjustable, but a combination of graphene with noble-metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-21 A. N. Grigorenko , Marco Polini , K. S. Novoselov

Graphene is the first truly two-dimensional (2D) material, possessing a cone-like energy spectrum near the Fermi energy and treated as a gapless semiconductor. Its unique properties trigger researchers to find more applications of it, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-23 Wei-Bang Li , Yu-Ming Wang , Hsien-Ching Chung , Ming-Fa Lin

While crystalline two-dimensional materials have become an experimental reality during the past few years, an amorphous 2-D material has not been reported before. Here, using electron irradiation we create an sp2-hybridized one-atom-thick…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-22 J. Kotakoski , A. V. Krasheninnikov , U. Kaiser , J. C. Meyer

Graphene with excellent 2D characters has been required to expand their potentials for meeting applicational demands in recent years. As one avenue, several approaches for fablicating 3D porous graphene network structures have been…