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The paper presents a theoretical description of the effects of strain induced by out-of-plane deformations on charge distributions and transport on graphene. A review of a continuum model for electrons using the Dirac formalism is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Dawei Zhai , Nancy Sandler

Motivated by recent proposals on strain-engineering of graphene electronic circuits we calculate conductivity, shot-noise and the density of states in periodically deformed graphene. We provide the solution to the Dirac-Kronig-Penney model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-13 S. Gattenloehner , W. Belzig , M. Titov

We investigate the effects of uniaxial strain on the transport properties of vertical devices made of two twisted graphene layers, which partially overlap each other. We find that because of the different orientations of the two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Viet Hung Nguyen , Huy-Viet Nguyen , Jerome Saint Martin , Philippe Dollfus

Under the application of a force, a material will deform and, hence, the crystal lattice will experience strain. This induced strain will alter the electronic properties of the material. In particular, strain in graphene generates an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-08 J. A. Crosse

In contrast to recent description [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 (2011)116803], we show that pseudo spin in graphene is not completely a real angular momentum. The pseudo spin only in the direction perpendicular to graphene sheet is real angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-12 Bumned Soodchomshom

We consider the scattering of Dirac particles in graphene due to the superposition of an external magnetic field and mechanical strain. As a model for a graphene nanobubble, we find exact analytical solutions for single-particle states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 Enrique Muñoz , Rodrigo Soto-Garrido

Strain fields in graphene giving rise to pseudomagnetic fields have received much attention due to the possibility of mimicking real magnetic fields with magnitudes of greater than 100 Tesla. We examine systems with such strains confined to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Mikkel Settnes , Stephen R. Power , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Localized states in graphene have garnered significant attention in quantum information science due to their potential applications. Despite graphene's superior transport and electronic properties compared to other semiconductors, achieving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Seunghyun Jun , Myung-Chul Jung , Nojoon Myoung

The behavior of electrons in strained graphene is usually described using effective pseudomagnetic fields in a Dirac equation. Here we consider the particular case of a spatially constant strain. Our results indicate that lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 M. Oliva-Leyva , G. G. Naumis

Dirac-electronic tunneling and nonlinear transport properties with both finite and zero energy bandgap are investigated for graphene with a tilted potential barrier under a bias. For validation, results from a finite-difference based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Farhana Anwar , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Ashwani Sharma

Introducing quantum confinement has uncovered a rich set of interesting quantum phenomena and allows one to directly probe the physics of confined (quasi-)particles. In most experiments, however, electrostatic potential is the only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Ya-Ning Ren , Yu-Chen Zhuang , Qing-Feng Sun , Lin He

Graphene has emerged as an electronic material that is promising for device applications and for studying two-dimensional electron gases with relativistic dispersion near two Dirac points. Nonetheless, deviations from Dirac-like…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-07-23 M. L. Teague , A. P. Lai , J. Velasco , C. R. Hughes , A. D. Beyer , M. W. Bockrath , C. N. Lau , N. -C. Yeh

The recent discovery of methods to isolate graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of crystalline carbon, has raised the possibility of a new class of nano-electronics devices based on the extraordinary electrical transport and unusual physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-02 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Anthony Barker , Eva Y. Andrei

Strain-engineered graphene has garnered much attention recently owing to the possibilities of creating substantial energy gaps enabled by pseudo-magnetic fields. While theoretical works proposed the possibility of creating large-area…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 M. Luo , H. Sun , Z. Qi , K. Lu , M. Chen , D. Kang , Y. Kim , D. Burt , X. Yu , C. Wang , Y. D. Kim , H. Wang , Q. -J. Wang , D. Nam

We show that the low-energy electronic structure of graphene under a one-dimensional inhomogeneous magnetic field can be mapped into that of graphene under an electric field or vice versa. As a direct application of this transformation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-31 Liang Zheng Tan , Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie

Confinement of electrons in graphene to make devices has proven to be a challenging task. Electrostatic methods fail because of Klein tunneling, while etching into nanoribbons requires extreme control of edge terminations, and bottom-up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Y. Wu , D. Zhai , C. Pan , B. Cheng , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , N. Sandler , M. Bockrath

Graphene is a powerful playground for studying a plethora of quantum phenomena. One of the remarkable properties of graphene arises when it is strained in particular geometries and the electrons behave as if they were under the influence of…

Charge carriers in graphene are chiral quasiparticles ("massless Dirac fermions"). Graphene provides therefore an amazing opportunity to study subtle quantum relativistic effects in condensed matter experiment. Here I review a theory of one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 M. I. Katsnelson

Straintronic devices made of carbon-based materials have been pushed up due to the graphene high mechanical flexibility and the possibility of interesting changes in transport properties. Properly designed strained systems have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 V. Torres , D. Faria , A. Latgé

Strain engineering of graphene takes advantage of one of the most dramatic responses of Dirac electrons enabling their manipulation via strain-induced pseudo-magnetic fields. Numerous theoretically proposed devices, such as resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 R. Banerjee , V. -H. Nguyen , T. Granzier-Nakajima , L. Pabbi , A. Lherbier , A. R. Binion , J. -C. Charlier , M. Terrones , E. W. Hudson