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When light is absorbed by a semiconductor, photoexcited charge carriers enhance the absorption of far-infrared radiation due to intraband transitions. We observe the opposite behavior in monolayer graphene, a zero-gap semiconductor with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 A. J. Frenzel , C. H. Lui , W. Fang , N. L. Nair , P. K. Herring , P. Jarillo-Herrero , J. Kong , N. Gedik

Measuring terahertz waveforms in terahertz spectroscopy often relies on electrooptic sampling employing a ZnTe crystal. Although the nonlinearities in such zincblende semiconductors induced by intense terahertz pulses have been studied at…

We report on the observation of the ratchet effect -- generation of direct electric current in response to external terahertz (THz) radiation -- in bilayer graphene, where inversion symmetry is broken by an asymmetric dual-grating gate…

We present a comprehensive study on enhancing the thermoelectric (TE) performance of bilayer graphene (BLG) through irradiation with arbitrarily polarized light, focusing on $AA$- and $AB$-stacked configurations with zigzag edges. Utilizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Cynthia Ihuoma Osuala , Tanu Choudhary , Raju K. Biswas , Sudin Ganguly , Santanu K. Maiti

Analytical treatments of tunneling in bilayer graphene have typically relied on minimal models including only the vertical interlayer hopping $\gamma_1$ and have been restricted to the weak interlayer bias regime $2\varepsilon \ll…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Ryo Tamura

Detection of infrared light is central to diverse applications in security, medicine, astronomy, materials science, and biology. Often different materials and detection mechanisms are employed to optimize performance in different spectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 J. Yan , M. -H. Kim , J. A. Elle , A. B. Sushkov , G. S. Jenkins , H. M. Milchberg , M. S. Fuhrer , H. D. Drew

We develop a self-consistent theory for current-induced spin wave excitations in normal metal-magnetic insulator bilayer systems, thereby establishing the relation between spin wave excitation and the experimentally controlled parameters.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yan Zhou , Hu-jun Jiao , Yan-ting Chen , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Jiang Xiao

We investigate twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG), a four-layer system composed of two AB-stacked graphene bilayers rotated with respect to each other by a small angle. Our ab initio band structure calculations reveal a considerable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Fatemeh Haddadi , QuanSheng Wu , Alex J. Kruchkov , Oleg V. Yazyev

We demonstrated theoretically that the renormalization of the electron energy spectrum near the Dirac point of graphene by a strong high-frequency electromagnetic field (dressing field) drastically depends on polarization of the field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 K. Kristinsson , O. V. Kibis , S. Morina , I. A. Shelykh

Though the observation of the quantum anomalous Hall effect and nonlocal transport response reveals nontrivial band topology governed by the Berry curvature in twisted bilayer graphene, some recent works reported nonlinear Hall signals in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Meizhen Huang , Zefei Wu , Xu Zhang , Xuemeng Feng , Zishu Zhou , Shi Wang , Yong Chen , Chun Cheng , Kai Sun , Zi Yang Meng , Ning Wang

Penta-graphene (PG) is a carbon allotrope that has recently attracted the attention of the materials science community due to its interesting properties for renewable energy applications. Although unstable in its pure form, it has been…

The ultrafast relaxation and recombination dynamics of photogenerated electrons and holes in epitaxial graphene are studied using optical-pump Terahertz-probe spectroscopy. The conductivity in graphene at Terahertz frequencies depends on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Paul A. George , Jared Strait , Jahan Dawlaty , Shriram Shivaraman , Mvs Chandrashekhar , Farhan Rana , Michael G. Spencer

We investigate the interaction of two pulses (pump and probe) scattered by a nonlinear epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) slab whose thickness is comparable with the ENZ wavelength. We show that when the probe has a narrow spectrum localized around…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 Alessandro Ciattoni , Andrea Marini , Carlo Rizza

We investigate the dynamics of photoexcited carriers and nonequilibrium phonons in graphene by solving the microscopic kinetic Bloch equations. The pump and drift effects from the laser field as well as the relevant scatterings (including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-22 B. Y. Sun , M. W. Wu

We study electron transport in nanostructures patterned in bilayer graphene patches grown epitaxially on SiC as a function of doping, magnetic field, and temperature. Away from charge neutrality transport is only weakly modulated by changes…

Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong correlations. Remarkably, an isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer graphene by simply rotating the layers to 1.1$^{\circ}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Matthew Yankowitz , Shaowen Chen , Hryhoriy Polshyn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , David Graf , Andrea F. Young , Cory R. Dean

Recent experiments show how a bilayer graphene twisted around a certain magic angle becomes superconducting as it is doped into a region with approximate flat bands. We investigate the mean-field $s$-wave superconducting state in such a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-12-19 T. J. Peltonen , R. Ojajärvi , T. T. Heikkilä

We report first-principles calculations of electron-phonon coupling in bilayer graphene and the corresponding contribution to carrier scattering. At the phonon $\Gamma$ point, electrons with energies less than 200 meV are scattered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yijun Ge , Timothy S. Fisher

We theoretically analyse the dynamics of a suspended graphene membrane which is in tunnel contact with grounded metallic electrodes and subjected to ac-electrostatic potential induced by a gate electrode. It is shown that for such system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Axel M. Eriksson , Marina V. Voinova , Leonid Y. Gorelik

Femtosecond laser pulses interacting with LiNbO3 has been widely applied in intense terahertz generation, excitation and imaging of phonon polaritons and modulating light. It is of great importance to study the nonlinearities induced by…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-26 Bo Wang , Chun Wang , Li Wang , Xiaojun Wu