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Electronic instabilities at the crossing of the Fermi energy with a Van Hove singularity in the density of states often lead to new phases of matter such as superconductivity, magnetism or density waves. However, in most materials this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-18 Guohong Li , A. Luican , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , A. H. Castro Neto , A. Reina , J. Kong , E. Y. Andrei

Gapless bilayer graphene is susceptible to a variety of spontaneously gapped states. As predicted by theory and observed by experiment, the ground state is however topologically trivial, because a valley-independent gap is energetically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Chunlei Qu , Chuanwei Zhang , Fan Zhang

Ferroelectric materials are established candidates for beyond complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology, owing to their non-volatile spontaneous electrical polarization. The recent boom in electric dipole texture engineering and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-29 Bixin Yan , Valentine Gillioz , Ipek Efe , Morgan Trassin

We study the electromagnetic properties of a metamaterial consisting of polarizable (nano)particles and a single graphene sheet placed at the interface between two dielectrics. We show that the particle's polarizability is renormalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Jaime E. Santos , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. M. R. Peres , G. Smirnov , Yu. V. Bludov

Low-energy electronic behavior in graphite crystals is highly dependent on the relative stacking arrangement of the constituent layers. Topologically non-trivial electronic states can arise due to interrupted rhombohedral (ABC) stacking,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Luke Soneji , Simon Crampin , Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski

Following the discovery of graphene, keen attentions have been paid in comprehending the noticeably superior electromagnetic, optical and absorptive properties of few layer graphene (FLG) with rotational-stacking-faults. With achieving…

Few layer graphene (FLG) has been recently intensively investigated for its variable electronic properties defined by a local atomic arrangement. While the most natural layers arrangement in FLG is ABA (Bernal) stacking, a metastable ABC…

In rhombohedral-stacked few-layer graphene, the very flat energy bands near the charge neutrality point are unstable to electronic interactions, giving rise to states with spontaneous broken symmetries. Using transport measurements on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 K. Myhro , S. Che , Y. Shi , Y. Lee , K. Thilahar , K. Bleich , Dmitry Smirnov , C. N. Lau

Polyvinylidenefluoride (PVDF) a semicrystalline pieozoelectric polymer was synthesized with varying process conditions and its ferroelectric domain orientations were studied using piezoresponse force microscope (PFM). PVDF thin films…

The recently observed unconventional ferroelectricity in AB bilayer graphene sandwiched by hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) presents a new platform to manipulate correlated phases in multilayered van der Waals heterostructures. We present a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Ziyan Zhu , Stephen Carr , Qiong Ma , Efthimios Kaxiras

Based on extensive first principle calculations, we explore the thickness dependent effective di- electric constant and slab polarizability of few layer black phosphorene. We find that the dielectric constant in ultra-thin phosphorene is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Piyush Kumar , B. S. Bhadoria , Sanjay Kumar , Somnath Bhowmick , Yogesh Singh Chauhan , Amit Agarwal

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,…

The polarization and the susceptibility of a ferroelectric multilayer with a non-ferroelectric slab are investigated within the framework of transverse Ising model with a four-spin interaction term. The effect of the thickness and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Yin-Zhong Wu , Dong-Lai Yao , Wen Dong , Zhen-Ya Li

We show that opacity of a clean multilayer graphene flake depends on the helicity of the circular polarized electromagnetic radiation. The effect can be understood in terms of the pseudospin selection rules for the interband optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Maxim Trushin , John Schliemann

The emergent behaviors in thin films of a multiaxial ferroelectric due to an electrochemical coupling between the rotating polarization and surface ions are explored within the framework of the 2-4 Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire (LGD)…

Graphene has exceptional optical, mechanical and electrical properties, making it an emerging material for novel optoelectronics, photonics and for flexible transparent electrode applications. However, the relatively high sheet resistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-06 Guang-Xin Ni , Yi Zheng , Sukang Bae , Chin Yaw Tan , Orhan Kahya , Jing Wu , Byung Hee Hong , Kui Yao , Barbaros Özyilmaz

We report a double-layer electronic system made of two closely-spaced but electrically isolated graphene monolayers sandwiched in boron nitride. For large carrier densities in one of the layers, the adjacent layer no longer exhibits a…

Small-twist-angle bilayer graphene supports strongly correlated insulating states and superconductivity. Twisted few-layer graphene systems are likely to open up new directions for strong correlation physics in moir\'e superlattices. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-30 Xiao Li , Fengcheng Wu , Allan H. MacDonald

Twisted graphene bilayers develop highly localised states around AA-stacked regions for small twist angles. We show that interaction effects may induce either an antiferromagnetic (AF) and a ferromagnetic (F) polarization of said regions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Luis A. Gonzalez-Arraga , J. L. Lado , Francisco Guinea , Pablo San-Jose

Interfacial ferroelectricity emerges in heterostructures consisting of nonpolar van der Waals (vdW) layers, greatly expanding the scope of two dimensional ferroelectrics. In particular, the unconventional moire ferroelectricity observed in…