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An uncertainty in studying twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is the minimum energy geometry, which strongly affects the electronic structure. The minimum energy geometry is determined by the potential energy surface, which is dominated by van…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Kittithat Krongchon , Tawfiqur Rakib , Shivesh Pathak , Elif Ertekin , Harley T. Johnson , Lucas K. Wagner

Insights into the fundamental properties of graphene's Dirac-Weyl fermions have emerged from studies of electron tunnelling transistors in which an atomically thin layer of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is sandwiched between two layers of…

Combining both vertical and in-plane two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures opens up the possibility to create an unprecedented architecture using 2D atomic layer building blocks. The thermal transport properties of such mixed…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-16 Ting Liang , Ping Zhang , Man Zhou , Peng Yuan , Daoguo Yang

The electronic properties of moir\'e heterostructures depend sensitively on the relative orientation between layers of the stack. For example, near-magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) commonly shows superconductivity, yet a TBG…

Interlayer electron transport through a graphene / hexagonal boron-nitride (h-BN) / graphene heterostructure is strongly affected by the misorientation angle $\theta$ of the h-BN with respect to the graphene layers with different physical…

Cross-planar di-vacancies (CPDVs) within stacked graphene hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) heterostructures provide stabilized covalent links to bridge adjacent graphene and h-BN sheets. It was shown that the CPDVs serve as focal points for…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-10 Bin Ouyang , Jun Song

By means of numerical simulations, we explore possible effects of a special interparticle interaction potential which is a function of external and internal conditions of graphene-like systems. In addition to the electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 José Abdalla Helayël-Neto , Elena Konstantinova , Ricardo Spagnuolo Martins

We discuss the chiral decomposition of non-symmetric stacking structures. It is shown that the low-energy electronic structure of Bernal stacked graphene multilayer deposited on h-BN consists of chiral pseudospin doublets. N-layer graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-11 Ilona Zasada , Andrzej Molenda , Paweł Maślanka , Kamil Łuczak

Heterostructures made of stacked 2D materials with different electronic properties are studied for their potential in creating multifunctional devices. Graphene (G) and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) van der Waals (vdW) systems have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-16 D. P. de Andrade Deus , J. M. J. Lopes , Roberto H. Miwa

Being used in optoelectronic devices as ultra-thin conductor-insulator junctions, detailed investigations are needed about how exactly h-BN and graphene hybridize. Here, we present a comprehensive ab initio study of hot carrier dynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-01 Sangkha Borah , Dinesh Yadav , Maxim Trushin , Fabian Pauly

The Coulomb interaction is widely known to enhance the effective mass of interacting particles and therefore tends to favor a localized state at commensurate filling. Here, we will show that, in contrast to this consensus, in a van der…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-04 Jin-Rong Xu , Ze-Yi Song , Chen-Guang Yuan , Yu-Zhong Zhang

In this paper a systematic examination of graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (g/hBN) bilayers is presented, through a recently developed two-dimensional phase field crystal model that incorporates out-of-plane deformations. The system…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-09 K. R. Elder , Zhi-Feng Huang , T. Ala-Nissila

In this study, we highlight the potential of strain engineering in graphene/hBN (hexagonal Boron nitride) 2D heterostructures, enabling their use as wide-range light absorbers with significant implications for optoelectronic applications.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Priyanka Sinha , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , Bheemalingam Chittari

The occurrence of superconducting and insulating phases is well-established in twisted graphene bilayers, and they have also been reported in other arrangements of graphene layers. We investigate three such arrangements: untwisted AB…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-11 Pierre A. Pantaleon , Tommaso Cea , Rory Brown , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

Principal characteristics of interlayer interaction and relative motion of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) layers are investigated by the first-principles method taking into account van der Waals interactions. Dependences of the interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Alexander V. Lebedev , Irina V. Lebedeva , Andrey A. Knizhnik , Andrey M. Popov

We identify qualitative trends in the stacking sequence dependence of carrier-carrier interaction phenomena in multilayer graphene. Our theory is based on a new approach which explicitly exhibits the important role in interaction phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-30 Yunsu Jang , E. H. Hwang , A. H. MacDonald , Hongki Min

Fabrication of devices made by isolated Graphene or Graphene-like single layers (such as h-BN) has opened up possibility of examining highly correlated states of electron systems in parts of their phase diagram that is impossible to access…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-08 Bahman Roostaei

We investigate theoretically the electronic structure of graphene and boron nitride (BN) lateral heterostructures, which were fabricated in recent experiments. The first-principles density functional calculation demonstrates that a huge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-04 Dong Zhang , Maosheng Miao , Fuhua Yang , Haiqing Lin , Kai Chang

When combined with graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is an ideal substrate and gate dielectric with which to build metalh-BN|graphene field-effect devices. We use first-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations for…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-11 Menno Bokdam , Petr A. Khomyakov , Geert Brocks , Zhicheng Zhong , Paul J. Kelly

Close to charge neutrality, the low-energy properties of high-quality suspended devices based on atomically thin graphene layers are determined by electron-electron interactions. Bernal-stacked layers, in particular, have shown a remarkable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-20 Youngwoo Nam , Dong-Keun Ki , Mikito Koshino , Edward McCann , Alberto F. Morpurgo