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The recent discovery of methods to isolate graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of crystalline carbon, has raised the possibility of a new class of nano-electronics devices based on the extraordinary electrical transport and unusual physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-02 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Anthony Barker , Eva Y. Andrei

The interplay of strain engineering and photon-assisted tunneling of electrons in graphene is considered for giving rise to atypical transport phenomena. The combination of uniaxial strain and a time-periodic potential barrier helps to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yonatan Betancur-Ocampo , Parisa Majari , Diego Espitia , Francois Leyvraz , Thomas Stegmann

Correlated insulators are frequently observed in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene at even fillings of electrons or holes per moir\'e unit-cell. Whereas theory predicts these insulators to be intervalley coherent excitonic phases, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Gal Shavit , Kryštof Kolář , Christophe Mora , Felix von Oppen , Yuval Oreg

Graphene has emerged as an ultrafast photonic material for on-chip all-optical modulation. However, its atomic thickness limits its interaction with guided optical modes, which results in a high switching energy per bit or low modulation…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-29 Mohammed Alaloul , Jacob B. Khurgin

In this work, we investigate the possibility of enhancing the thermoelectric power (Seebeck coefficient) in graphene devices by strain and doping engineering. While a local strain can result in the misalignment of Dirac cones of different…

We consider superconducting properties of a two-dimensional Dirac material such as graphene under strain that produces a flat band spectrum in the normal state. We show that in the superconducting state, such a model results in a highly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-22 V. J. Kauppila , F. Aikebaier , T. T. Heikkilä

Intensive research is carried out on two-dimensional materials, in particular molybdenum disulfide, towards high-performance transistors for integrated circuits. Fabricating transistors with ohmic contacts is challenging due to the high…

Many of the properties of graphene are tied to its lattice structure, allowing for tuning of charge carrier dynamics through mechanical strain. The graphene electro-mechanical coupling yields very large pseudomagnetic fields for small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Shuze Zhu , Joseph A. Stroscio , Teng Li

Control of hyperfine interactions is a fundamental requirement for quantum computing architecture schemes based on shallow donors in silicon. However, at present, there is lacking an atomistic approach including critical effects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-29 Muhammad Usman , Charles D. Hill , Rajib Rahman , Gerhard Klimeck , Michelle Y. Simmons , Sven Rogge , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

We consider graphene deposited on monolayers of such transition-metal dichalcogenides like MoSe$_2$, WSe$_2$, MoS$_2$, and WS$_2$. Our key objective is to study the impact of relative twist angle between the monolayers on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 I. Wojciechowska , A. Dyrdal

The strain induced pseudo-magnetic field in supported graphene deposited on top of a nanostructured substrate is investigated by using atomistic simulations. Step, elongated trench, one dimensional barrier, spherical bubbles, Gaussian bump…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Neek-Amal , F. M. Peeters

The theoretical results are presented showing that strain-induced anisotropy of graphene spectrum gives rise to the valley currents under the illumination by normally incident light. The currents of the two graphene valleys are mutually…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-13 T. L. Linnik

Strain engineering enables quantum confinement in pristine graphene without degrading its intrinsic mobility and spin coherence. Here, we extend previously proposed strain-induced charge-qubit architectures by incorporating spin degrees of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Myung-Chul Jung , Nojoon Myoung

Bilayer graphene twisted by a small angle shows a significant charge modulation away from neutrality, as the charge in the narrow bands near the Dirac point is mostly localized in the regions of the Moir\'e pattern with $AA$ stacking. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Francisco Guinea , Niels R. Walet

We investigate real- and lattice-spin currents controlled by strain in a silicene-based junction, where chemical potential, perpendicular electric field and circularly polarized light are applied into the strained barrier. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-22 Sarayut Phonapha , Assanai Suwanvarangkoon , Bumned Soodchomshom

Using an external electric field, one can modulate the bandgap of Bernal stacked bilayer graphene by breaking A-~B symmetry. We analyze strain effects on the bilayer graphene using the extended Huckel theory and find that reduced interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-03 Hassan Raza , Edwin C. Kan

We revisit the theory of the pseudo magnetic field as induced by strain in graphene using the tight-binding approach. A systematic expansion of the hopping parameter and the deformation of the lattice vectors is presented from which we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Ramezani Masir , D. Moldovan , F. M. Peeters

The band structures of strained graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are examined by a tight binding Hamiltonian that is directly related to the type and strength of strains. Compared to the two-dimensional graphene whose band gap remains close to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-20 Yang Lu , Jing Guo

We investigate the current-voltage characteristics of a field-effect tunnelling transistor comprised of both monolayer and bilayer graphene with well-aligned crystallographic axes, separated by three layers of hexagonal boron nitride. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-10 Thomas L M Lane , John R Wallbank , Vladimir I Fal'ko

Heterostructures prepared from graphene and fluorographene (FG) using the technology of 2D printing on solid and flexible substrates were fabricated and studied. Excellent stability of printed graphene layers and, to a lesser degree,…