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We calculate the heat flux and electron-phonon thermal conductance in a disordered graphene sheet, going beyond a Fermi's Golden rule approach to fully account for the modification of the electron-phonon interaction by disorder. Using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Wei Chen , Aashish A. Clerk

We study the infrared conductivity of graphene at finite chemical potential and temperature taking into account the effect of phonons and disorder due to charged impurities and unitary scatterers. The screening of the long-range Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-16 N. M. R. Peres , T. Stauber , A. H. Castro Neto

Using density functional theory (DFT), Hartree-Fock, exact diagonalization, and numerical renormalization group methods we study the electronic structure of diluted hydrogen atoms chemisorbed on graphene. A comparison between DFT and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-07 J. O. Sofo , Gonzalo Usaj , P. S. Cornaglia , A. M. Suarez , A. D. Hernández-Nieves , C. A. Balseiro

The electronic density of states of graphene is equivalent to that of relativistic electrons. In the absence of disorder or external doping the Fermi energy lies at the Dirac point where the density of states vanishes. Although transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Martin , N. Akerman , G. Ulbricht , T. Lohmann , J. H. Smet , K. von Klitzing , A. Yacoby

In conventional metals, electronic transport in a magnetic field is characterized by the motion of electrons along orbits on the Fermi surface, which usually causes an increase in the resistivity through averaging over velocities. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-07 Maxim Breitkreiz , Philip M. R. Brydon , Carsten Timm

In this review, we provide an account of the recent progress in understanding electronic transport in disordered graphene systems. Starting from a theoretical description that emphasizes the role played by band structure properties and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Caio H. Lewenkopf

We investigate charge transport in pentacene-graphene nanojunctions employing density functional theory (DFT) electronic structure calculations and the Landauer transport formalism. The results show that the unique electronic properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-26 Ivan A. Pshenichnyuk , Pedro B. Coto , Susanne Leitherer , Michael Thoss

Theoretical calculations, based on hybrid exchange density functional theory, are used to show that in graphene a periodic array of defects generates a ferromagnetic ground state at room temperature for unexpectedly large defect…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Pisani , B. Montanari , N. M. Harrison

In molecular electronic conduction, exotic lattice morphologies often give rise to exotic behaviors. Among 2D systems, graphene is a notable example. Recently, a stable amorphous version of graphene called Monolayer Amorphous Carbon (MAC)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Nicolas Gastellu , Michael Kilgour , Lena Simine

The electronic properties of graphene on top of ferroelectric HfO$_2$ substrates in orthorhombic phase with space group Pca2$_1$ are investigated using density functional theory calculations. The space group Pca2$_1$ was recently identified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 George Alexandru Nemnes , Daniela Dragoman , Mircea Dragoman

Measuring the transport of electrons through a graphene sheet necessarily involves contacting it with metal electrodes. We study the adsorption of graphene on metal substrates using first-principles calculations at the level of density…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 P. A. Khomyakov , G. Giovannetti , P. C. Rusu , G. Brocks , J. van den Brink , P. J. Kelly

The two-dimensional carbon allotrope graphene has recently attracted a lot of attention from researchers in the disciplines of Lattice Field Theory, Lattice QCD and Monte Carlo calculations. This interest has been prompted by several…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-11-04 Timo A. Lähde , Joaquín E. Drut

Density functional theory (DFT) and many body perturbation theory at the G$_0$W$_0$ level are employed to study the electronic properties of polythiophene (PT) adsorbed on graphene surface. Analysis of charge density difference shows the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 F. Marsusi , I. A. Fedorov , S. Gerivani

The ability to perform first-principles calculations of electronic and vibrational properties of two-dimensional heterostructures in a field-effect setup is crucial for the understanding and design of next-generation devices. We present…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-06 Thibault Sohier , Matteo Calandra , Francesco Mauri

We have investigated the electron correlation effect on the electronic structures and transport properties of the iron-based superconductors using the density functional theory (DFT) and dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). By considering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-19 Hyo Seok Ji , Geunsik Lee , Ji Hoon Shim

The density functional theory is used to study the electronic structure of a quantum wire in a magnetic field. The Kohn-Sham equations are solved numerically for different values of electron densities and filling factors. The critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 A. A. Vasilchenko

We study the effects of insulating oxides in their crystalline forms on the energy band structure of monolayer and bilayer graphene using a \textit{first principles} density functional theory based electronic structure method and a local…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-09 Priyamvada Jadaun , Sanjay K. Banerjee , Leonard F. Register , Bhagawan Sahu

The electronic structure of fluorite crystals are studied by means of density functional theory within the local density approximation for the exchange correlation energy. The ground-state electronic properties, which have been calculated…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-01 Emiliano Cadelano , Giancarlo Cappellini

We study the effects of disorder in the electronic properties of graphene multilayers, with special focus on the bilayer and the infinite stack. At low energies and long wavelengths, the electronic self-energies and density of states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Johan Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres

Mechanically exfoliated graphene layers deposited on SiO2 substrate were irradiated with Ar+ ions in order to experimentally study the effect of atomic scale defects and disorder on the low-energy electronic structure of graphene. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-21 Levente Tapaszto , Gergely Dobrik , Peter Nemes-Incze , Gabor Vertesy , Philippe Lambin , Laszlo P Biro