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We investigate the effect of uniaxial heterostrain on the interacting phase diagram of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. Using both self-consistent Hartree-Fock and density-matrix renormalization group calculations, we find that small…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-14 Daniel E. Parker , Tomohiro Soejima , Johannes Hauschild , Michael P. Zaletel , Nick Bultinck

The beginning of high interest in two-dimensional (2D) crystals is marked by the synthesis of graphene, which constitutes exemplary monolayer material. This is due to the multiple extraordinary properties of graphene, particularly in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Dominik Szczȩśniak , Jakub T. Gnyp , Marta Kielak

We study ballistic transport in bilayer graphene junctions and show how electrostatic gating, interlayer bias, and homogeneous strain provide complementary control over electron transmission. In the absence of strain, transport is governed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Dan-Na Liu , Jun Zheng , Pierre A. Pantaleon

Spatial manipulation of current flow in graphene could be achieved through the use of a tilted pn junction. We show through numerical simulation that a pseudo-Hall effect (i.e. non-equilibrium charge and current density accumulating along…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-20 Tony Low , Joerg Appenzeller

The properties of polycrystalline materials are often dominated by the size of their grains and by the atomic structure of their grain boundaries. These effects should be especially pronounced in 2D materials, where even a line defect can…

Graphene is the nature's thinnest elastic membrane, with exceptional mechanical and electrical properties. We report the direct observation and creation of one-dimensional (1D) and 2D periodic ripples in suspended graphene sheets, using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-28 Wenzhong Bao , Feng Miao , Zhen Chen , Hang Zhang , Wanyoung Jang , Chris Dames , Chun Ning Lau

Experimental advances allow for the inclusion of multiple probes to measure the transport properties of a sample surface. We develop a theory of dual-probe scanning tunnelling microscopy using a Green's Function formalism, and apply it to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Mikkel Settnes , Stephen R. Power , Dirch H. Petersen , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Graphene has attracted significant interest both for exploring fundamental science and for a wide range of technological applications. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is currently the only working approach to grow graphene at wafer scale,…

We extensively investigate the electronic and transport properties of a twisted bilayer graphene when subjected to both an external perpendicular electric field and a magnetic field. Using a basic tight-binding model, we show the flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Priyanka Sinha , Ayan Mondal , Simão Meneses João , Bheema Lingam Chittari

This work deals with the intrinsic and extrinsic properties of the graphene layers inside the graphite structure, in particular the influence of defects and interfaces. We discuss the evidence for ballistic transport found in mesoscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-13 J. Barzola-Quiquia , A. Ballestar , S. Dusari , P. Esquinazi

Our previous results on the nonperturbative calculations of the mean current and of the energy-momentum tensor in QED with the T-constant electric field are generalized to arbitrary dimensions. The renormalized mean values are found; the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-24 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman , N. Yokomizo

Strain engineering has been recently recognized as an effective way to tailor the electrical properties of graphene. In the optical domain, effects such as strain-induced anisotropic absorption add an appealing functionality to graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-31 Guang-Xin Ni , Hong-Zhi Yang , Wei Ji , Seung-Jae Baeck , Chee-Tat Toh , Jong-Hyun Ahn , Vitor M. Pereira , Barbaros Özyilmaz

This review covers recent experimental progress in probing the electronic properties of graphene and how they are influenced by various substrates, by the presence of a magnetic field and by the proximity to a superconductor. The focus is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-23 Eva Y. Andrei , Guohong Li , Xu Du

Intrinsic bilayer graphene is a gapless semimetal. Under the application of a bias field it becomes a semiconductor with a direct band gap that is proportional to the applied field. Under a layer-asymmetric strain (where the upper layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-04 J. A. Crosse

Interactions of magnetic elements with graphene may lead to various electronic states that have potential applications. We report an in-situ experiment in which the quantum transport properties of graphene are measured with increasing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Chaoyi Cai , Jian-Hao Chen

Strain can tune desirable electronic behavior in graphene, but there has been limited progress in controlling strain in graphene devices. In this paper, we study the mechanical response of graphene on substrates patterned with arrays of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-22 Stephen T. Gill , John H. Hinnefeld , Shuze Zhu , William T. Swanson , Teng Li , Nadya Mason

we have fabricated transparent electronic devices based on graphene materials with thickness down to one single atomic layer by the transfer printing method. The resulting printed graphene devices retain high field effect mobility and have…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-09-10 Jian-Hao Chen , Masa Ishigami , Chaun Jang , Daniel R. Hines , Michael S. Fuhrer , Ellen D. Williams

Graphene is a 2-dimensional (2D) carbon allotrope with the atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice. The low-energy electronic excitations in this 2D crystal are described by massless Dirac fermions that have a linear dispersion relation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 Peter Rickhaus , Romain Maurand , Ming-Hao Liu , Markus Weiss , Klaus Richter , Christian Schönenberger

Position measurements at the quantum level are vital for many applications, but also challenging. Typically, methods based on optical phase shifts are used, but these methods are often weak and difficult to apply to many materials. An…

Using full-potential density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we found a small asymmetry in the Fermi velocity of electrons and holes in graphene. These Fermi velocity values and their average were found to decrease with increasing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-08 Harihar Behera , Gautam Mukhopadhyay