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The peculiar nature of electron scattering in graphene is among many exciting theoretical predictions for the physical properties of this material. To investigate electron scattering properties in a graphene plane, we have created a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 B. Huard , J. A. Sulpizio , N. Stander , K. Todd , B. Yang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Wrinkling is a ubiquitous phenomenon in two-dimensional membranes. In particular, in the large-scale growth of graphene on metallic substrates, high densities of wrinkles are commonly observed. Despite their prevalence and potential impact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-13 Wenjuan Zhu , Tony Low , Vasili Perebeinos , Ageeth A. Bol , Yu Zhu , Hugen Yan , Jerry Tersoff , Phaedon Avouris

Allotropes of carbon, including one-dimensional carbon nanotubes and two-dimensional graphene sheets, continue to draw attention as promising platforms for probing the physics of electrons in lower dimensions. Recent research has shown that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Benedetta Flebus , Allan H. MacDonald

We numerically investigate the electronic transport properties between two mesoscopic graphene disks with a twist by employing the density functional theory coupled with non-equilibrium Green's function technique. By attaching two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yulei Han , Yafei Ren , Xinlong Dong , Junjie Zeng , Wei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao

We theoretically consider the effect of plasmon collective modes on the frequency-dependent conductivity of graphene in the presence of the random static potential of charged impurities. We develop an equation of motion approach suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 K. Kechedzhi , S. Das Sarma

Edge structure plays an essential role in the nature of electronic states in graphene nanoribbons. By focusing on the interplay between this feature and non-trivial topology in the domain of the Dirac confinement problem, this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-24 J. F. O de Souza , Claudio Furtado

We propose a mechanical granular graphene obtained by replacing the carbon atoms with macroscopic spherical stainless steel beads in contact. The experimental measured dispersion relation is presented, in conjunction with evidence of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Li-Yang Zheng , Florian Allein , Vincent Tournat , Vitalyi Gusev , Georgios Theocharis

Dislocations are a central concept in materials science, which dictate the plastic deformation and damage evolution in materials. Layered materials such as graphite admit two general types of interlayer dislocations: basal and prismatic…

The appealing connection between non-Euclidean geometries and defects in solids is brought forth in this article. Drawing a correspondence between the nature of a defect and a specific geometric property of the material space not only…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-24 Ayan Roychowdhury , Anurag Gupta

We simulate the optical and electrical responses in gallium-doped graphene. Using density functional theory with a local density approximation, we simlutate the electronic band structure and show the effects of impurity doping (0-3.91\%) in…

This paper reviews the theoretical work undertaken using density functional theory (DFT) to explore graphene's interactions with its surroundings. We look at the impact of substrates, gate dielectrics and edge effects on the properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-31 Priyamvada Jadaun , Bhagawan R. Sahu , Leonard F. Register , Sanjay K. Banerjee

We consider scattering of elastic waves on parallel wedge dislocations in the geometric theory of defects or, equivalently, scattering of point particles and light rays on cosmic strings. Dislocations are described as torsion singularities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. O. Katanaev , I. V. Volovich

Controlling the electronic structure of two-dimensional materials using the combination of twist angle and electrostatic doping is an effective means to induce emergent phenomena. In bilayer graphene with an interlayer twist angle near the…

The coherent electron transport along zigzag and metallic armchair graphene nanoribbons in the presence of one or two vacancies is investigated. Having in mind atomic scale tunability of the conductance fingerprints, the primary focus is on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-26 D. A. Bahamon , A. L. C. Pereira , P. A. Schulz

Compressed hydrogen passes through a series of layered structures in which the layers can be viewed as distorted graphene sheets. The electronic structures of these layered structures can be understood by studying simple model systems- an…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-22 Ivan I. Naumov , R. E. Cohen , Russell J. Hemley

The Dirac point and linear band structure in Graphene bestow it with remarkable electronic and optical properties, a subject of intense ongoing research. Explanations of high electronic mobility in graphene, often invoke the masslessness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Chaitanya K. Ullal , Jian Shi , Ravishankar Sundararaman

The isolation of graphene has triggered an avalanche of studies into the spin-dependent physical properties of this material, as well as graphene-based spintronic devices. Here we review the experimental and theoretical state-of-art…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-11 Wei Han , Roland K. Kawakami , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

We study rectangular graphene flakes using mean field states as the basis for a configuration interaction calculation, which allows us to analyze the low lying electronic excited states including electron correlations beyond the mean field…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-18 Z. S. Sadeq , Rodrigo A. Muniz , J. E. Sipe

Density functional theory calculations are used to investigate the electronic structures of localized states at reconstructed armchair graphene edges. We consider graphene nanoribbons with two different edge types and obtain the energy band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-03 Changwon Park , Jisoon Ihm , Gunn Kim

We perform a detailed analysis of electronic polarizability of graphene with different theoretical approaches. From Kubo's linear response formalism, we give a general expression of frequency and wave-vector dependent polarizability within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Tao Zhu , Mauro Antezza , Jian-Sheng Wang