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A computational method is developed whereby the reflectivity of low-energy electrons from a surface can be obtained from a first-principles solution of the electronic structure of the system. The method is applied to multilayer graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 R. M. Feenstra , M. Widom

Motivated by recent experiments on suspended graphene showing carrier mobilities as high as 200,000 cm^2/Vs, we theoretically calculate transport properties assuming Coulomb impurities as the dominant scattering mechanism. We argue that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-05-11 S. Adam , S. Das Sarma

The present work discusses theoretical models which address the effects of electron--electron interactions and disorder in graphene planes. The starting point for the study is a simple tight-binding model for the electronic structure…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Francisco Guinea , M. Pilar Lopez-Sancho , Maria A. H. Vozmediano

Two-dimensional graphene, carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons represent a novel class of low dimensional materials that could serve as building blocks for future carbon-based nanoelectronics. Although these systems share a similar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-05 Alessandro Cresti , Norbert Nemec , Blanca Biel , Gabriel Niebler , Francois Triozon , Gianaurelio Cuniberti , Stephan Roche

We calculate the carrier density dependent ground state properties of graphene in the presence of random charged impurities in the substrate taking into account disorder and interaction effects non-perturbatively on an equal footing in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-17 Enrico Rossi , S. Das Sarma

The chapter combines analytical (statistical-thermodynamic and kinetic) with numerical (Kubo-Greenwood-formalism-based) approaches used to ascertain an influence of the configurations of point (impurities, vacancies) and line (grain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-04 T. M. Radchenko , V. A. Tatarenko , I. Yu. Sagalianov , Yu. I. Prylutskyy

We describe electrical transport in ideal single-layer graphene at zero applied bias. There is a crossover from collisionless transport at frequencies larger than k_B T/hbar (T is the temperature) to collision-dominated transport at lower…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-14 Lars Fritz , Joerg Schmalian , Markus Mueller , Subir Sachdev

The first electrical conductivity measurements of monoatomic carbon chains are reported in this study. The chains were obtained by unraveling carbon atoms from graphene ribbons while an electrical current flowed through the ribbon and,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 O. Cretu , A. R. Botello-Mendez , I. Janowska , C. Pham-Huu , J. -C. Charlier , F. Banhart

We study a relativistic two-dimensional free electron gas in the presence of a uniform external magnetic field and a random static scalar potential. We compute the expectation values of the charge density and the conductivity tensor,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 N. Bralic , R. M. Cavalcanti , C. A. A. de Carvalho , P. Donatis

We investigate the diffusive electron-transport properties of charge-doped graphene ribbons and nanoribbons with imperfect edges. We consider different regimes of edge scattering, ranging from wide graphene ribbons with (partially)…

For graphene (a Dirac material) it has been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed that DC resistivity is proportional to $ T^4$ when the temperature is much less than Bloch- Gr\"{u}neisen ($\Theta_{BG}$) temperature and T…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-18 Luxmi Rani , Navinder Singh

We present a magneto-transport study of graphene samples into which a mild disorder was introduced by exposure to ozone. Unlike the conductivity of pristine graphene, the conductivity of graphene samples exposed to ozone becomes very…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. Moser , H. Tao , S. Roche , F. Alsina , C. M. Sotomayor Torres , A. Bachtold

We develop a first-principles theory of resonant impurities in graphene and show that a broad range of typical realistic impurities leads to the characteristic sublinear dependence of the conductivity on the carrier concentration. By means…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-30 T. O. Wehling , S. Yuan , A. I. Lichtenstein , A. K. Geim , M. I. Katsnelson

Recent optical conductivity experiments of doped graphene in the infrared regime reveal a strong background in the energy region between the intra and interband transitions difficult to explain within conventional pictures. We propose a…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Adolfo G. Grushin , Belen Valenzuela , Maria A. H. Vozmediano

We investigate the size scaling of the conductance of surface disordered graphene sheets of width W and length L. Metallic leads are attached to the sample ends across its width. At E ~ 0, the conductance scales with the system size as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-26 E. Louis , J. A. Verges , F. Guinea , G. Chiappe

We suggest a simple model of disorder in graphene assuming that there are randomly distributed positive and negative centers with equal concentration $N/2$ in the bulk of silicon oxide substrate. We show that at zero gate voltage such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. I. Shklovskii

We have performed systematic investigations of transport through graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrates, together with confocal Raman measurements and a targeted theoretical analysis, to identify the dominant source of…

Graphene is a fascinating material for exploring fundamental science questions as well as a potential building block for novel electronic applications. In order to realize the full potential of this material the fabrication techniques of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Eva Y. Andrei

The conductivity of doped graphene is considered taking into account scattering by short-range nonsymmetric defects, when the longitudinal and transverse components of conductivity tensor appear to be different. The calculations of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 F. T. Vasko