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We develop a dynamical effective medium theory to accurately predict the unusual properties of elastic metamaterials in two dimensions near the resonant frequencies. The theory shows that the effective bulk modulus, shear modulus, and mass…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-07-10 Ying Wu , Yun Lai , Zhao-Qing Zhang

We use large scale ab-initio calculations to describe electronic structures of graphene, graphene nanoribbons, and carbon nanotubes periodically perforated with nanopores. We disclose common features of these systems and develop a unified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-25 Artem Baskin , Petr Kral

The eigen energy and the conductivity of a graphene sheet subject to a one-dimensional cosinusoidal potential and in the presence of a magnetic field are calculated. Such a graphene superlattice presents three distinct magnetic miniband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Liwei Jiang , Yisong Zheng

Electrodynamic properties of the graphene - magnetic semiconductor - graphene sandwich-structure have been investigated theoretically with taking into account the dissipation processes. Influence of graphene layers on electromagnetic waves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-31 Dmitry A. Kuzmin , Igor V. Bychkov , Vladimir G. Shavrov

Graphene is a recently discovered carbon based material with unique physical properties. This is a monolayer of graphite, and the two-dimensional electrons and holes in it are described by the effective Dirac equation with a vanishing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Mikhailov , K. Ziegler

We investigate the electronic band structure and transport properties of periodically alternating mono- and bi-layer graphene superlattices (MBLG SLs). In such MBLG SLs, there exists a zero-averaged wave vector (zero-$\overline{k}$) gap…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-22 Xiong Fan , Wenjun Huang , Tianxing Ma , Li-Gang Wang , Hai-Qing Lin

Graphene-based superlattice (SL) formed by a periodic gap modulation is studied theoretically using a Dirac-type Hamiltonian. Analyzing the dispersion relation we have found that new Dirac points arise in the electronic spectrum under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 G. M. Maksimova , E. S. Azarova , A. V. Telezhnikov , V. A. Burdov

Tuning interactions between Dirac states in graphene has attracted enormous interest because it can modify the electronic spectrum of the two-dimensional material, enhance electron correlations, and give rise to novel condensed-matter…

Moir\'e superlattices comprised of stacked two-dimensional materials present a versatile platform for engineering and investigating new emergent quantum states of matter. At present, the vast majority of investigated systems have long…

Graphene, as a promising material of post-silicon electronics, opens a new paradigm for the novel electronic properties and device applications. On the other hand, the 2D feature of graphene makes it technically challenging to be integrated…

The honeycomb lattice sets the basic arena for numerous ideas to implement electronic, photonic, or phononic topological bands in (meta-)materials. Novel opportunities to manipulate Dirac electrons in graphene through band engineering arise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Tobias M. R. Wolf , Oded Zilberberg , Ivan Levkivkskyi , Gianni Blatter

Recent experimental findings and theoretical predictions suggest that nitrogen-doped CVD-grown graphene may give rise to electronic band gaps due to impurity distributions which favour segregation on a single sublattice. Here we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Thomas Aktor , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Stephen R. Power

Superlattices (SLs) in monolayer and bilayer graphene, formed by spatially periodic potential variations, lead to a modified bandstructure with extra finite-energy and zero-energy Dirac fermions with tunable anisotropic velocities. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Si Wu , Matthew Killi , Arun Paramekanti

We propose an electrically tunable graphene-based metamaterial showing a large nonlinear optical response at THz frequencies, which we calculate analytically for the first time to our knowledge and arises from the intraband current. The…

Optics · Physics 2011-07-29 Haiming Dong , Claudio Conti , Fabio Biancalana

In this review article we discuss the recent progress in studying ballistic transport for charge carriers in graphene through highly inhomogenous magnetic field known as magnetic barrier in combination with gate voltage induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-12 Neetu Agrawal , Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

The electronic transport properties and band structures for the graphene-based one-dimensional (1D) superlattices with periodic squared potentials are investigated. It is found that a new Dirac point is formed, which is exactly located at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-25 Li-Gang Wang , Shi-Yao Zhu

Using Chebyshev polynomials, we study the electronic transport properties of massless Dirac fermions in symmetrical graphene superlattice composed of three regions. Matching wavefunctions and using transfer matrix method, we explicitly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 El Bouâzzaoui Choubabi , Abdellatif Kamal , Ahmed Jellal

Local curvature, or bending, of a graphene sheet is known to increase the chemical reactivity presenting an opportunity for templated chemical functionalization. Using first principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-12 Jesper Toft Rasmussen , Tue Gunst , Peter Bøggild , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Mads Brandbyge

Electrons in graphene are described by relativistic Dirac-Weyl spinors with a two-component pseudospin1-12. The unique pseudospin structure of Dirac electrons leads to emerging phenomena such as the massless Dirac cone2, anomalous quantum…

A method is proposed for the analysis of the propagation of electromagnetic waves through a homogeneous slab of a medium with Drude-Lorentz dispersion behavior, and excited by a causal sinusoidal source. An expression of the time dependent…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-13 Mohamed Ismail , Boris Gralak