Related papers: Electronic structure of C60 / graphite
Light emission in atomically thin heterostructures is known to depend on the type of materials, number and stacking sequence of the constituent layers. Here we show that the thickness of a two-dimensional substrate can be crucial in…
Far-infrared diagonal and Hall conductivities of multilayer epitaxial graphene on the C-face of SiC were measured using magneto-optical absorption and Faraday rotation in magnetic fields up to 7 T and temperatures between 5 and 300 K.…
Closely packed quasi-hexagonal and quasi-tetragonal crystalline phase of C$_{60}$ molecules (named qHPC$_{60}$) was recently synthesized. Here, we used DFT simulations to investigate the electronic, optical, and mechanical properties of…
We report the observation of strongly temperature-dependent, asymmetric spectral lines in electronic Raman scattering spectra of graphite in a high magnetic field up to 45 T applied along the c-axis. The magnetic field quantizes the…
Graphene has two atoms per unit cell with quasiparticles exhibiting the Dirac-like behavior. These properties lead to interband in addition to intraband optical transitions and modify the $f$-sum rule on the longitudinal conductivity. The…
Recent experiments have shown that C60 can be positively field-doped. In that state, fullerene exhibits a higher resistivity and a higher superconducting temperature than the corresponding negatively doped state. A strong intramolecular…
The adsorption of an alkali-metal submonolayer on graphene occupying every third hexagon of the honeycomb lattice in a commensurate $(\sqrt{3}\times\sqrt{3})R30^\circ$ arrangement induces an energy gap in the spectrum of graphene. To…
For field-effect-doped fullerenes it was reported that the superconducting transition temperature Tc is markedly larger for C60.2CHX_3 (X=Cl, Br) crystals, than for pure C60. Initially this was explained by the expansion of the volume per…
We consider the optical properties of the half-filled AB-stacked bilayer graphene with the excitonic pairing and condensation between the layers. Both intra and interlayer local Coulomb interaction effects have been taken into account and…
Electrons in quantum matter behave like a fluid when the quantum-mechanical carrier-carrier scattering dominates over other relaxation mechanisms. By combining a microscopic treatment of electron-electron interactions within the random…
Folded single layer graphene forms a system of two decoupled monolayers being only a few Angstroms apart. Using magnetotransport measurements we investigate the electronic properties of the two layers conducting in parallel. We show a…
Associating the presence of atomic vacancies to excited-state transport phenomena in two dimensional semiconductors is of emerging interest, and demands detailed understanding of the involved exciton transitions. Here we study the effect of…
We have performed a detailed investigation of the electrical properties of a graphene monolayer which is modulated by a weak one dimensional periodic potential in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. The periodic modulation…
Near- and mid-IR absorption spectra of endohedral H2@C60+ have been measured using He-tagging. The samples have been prepared using a 'molecular surgery' synthetic approach and were ionized and spectroscopically characterized in the gas…
Recently, holey graphene (HG) has successfully synthesized at atomic precision of hole size and shape. This shows interesting physical and chemical properties for energy and environmental applications. Shaping of the pores also transforms…
High-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids is an emerging method to probe ultrafast electron dynamics in solids at attosecond timescale. In this work, we study HHG from monolayer and bilayer graphene. Bilayer graphenes with AA and AB stacking…
One of the salient features of graphene is the very high carrier mobility that implies tremendous potential for use in electronic devices. Unfortunately, transport measurements find the expected high mobility only in freely suspended…
A model study of the singlet excitons in the C60 molecule with emphasis on the Coulomb interaction between excited electron and hole leads to a physical understanding of the interaction effects on the absorption spectra and to a new…
The study of the adsorption phenomenon of helium began many decades ago with the discovery of graphite as a homogeneous substrate for investigation of physically adsorbed monolayer films. In particular, helium monoatomic layers on graphite…
Molecular hydrogen in the bulk of graphite has been studied by path-integral molecular dynamics simulations. Finite-temperature properties of H_2 molecules adsorbed between graphite layers were analyzed in the temperature range from 300 to…