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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

We discuss the novel electronic properties of graphene under an external periodic scalar or vector potential, and the analytical and numerical methods used to investigate them. When graphene is subjected to a one-dimensional periodic scalar…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-21 Cheol-Hwan Park , Liang Zheng Tan , Steven G. Louie

When electrons are confined in two-dimensional (2D) materials, quantum mechanically enhanced transport phenomena, as exemplified by the quantum Hall effects (QHE), can be observed. Graphene, an isolated single atomic layer of graphite, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuanbo Zhang , Yan-Wen Tan , Horst L. Stormer , Philip Kim

In the recent years many researches were performed about graphene. Graphene is always considered a half metal or a zero gap semiconductor. In the last year new experiments were done about graphene on boron nitride and they obtained an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Salvatore Croce

We report on a numerical study of quantum transport in disordered two dimensional graphene and graphene nanoribbons. By using the Kubo and the Landauer approaches, transport length scales in the diffusive (mean free path, charge mobilities)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-17 Aurelien Lherbier , Blanca Biel , Yann-Michel Niquet , Stephan Roche

Two-dimensional graphene exhibits many fascinating properties such as ballistic electronic conduction and quantum Hall effect at room temperature.1-4 Graphene doped electrochemically or through charge-transfer with electron-donor and…

We calculate the quasiparticle properties of chiral two-dimensional Dirac electrons in graphene within the Landau Fermi Liquid scheme based on $GW$ approximation in the presence of disorder. Disorder effects due to charged impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Qaiumzadeh , N. Arabchi , R. Asgari

We theoretically consider, comparing with the existing experimental literature, the electrical conductivity of gated monolayer graphene as a function of carrier density, temperature, and disorder in order to assess the prospects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-28 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang

Electronic properties of graphene oxides enriched by the strong chemical bondings are investigated using first-principle calculations. They are very sensitive to the changes in the number of graphene layer, stacking configuration, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-28 Ngoc Thanh Thuy Tran , Shih-Yang Lin , Yu-Tsung Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

Graphene and carbon nanotubes have extraordinary mechanical and electronic properties. Intrinsic line defects such as local non-hexagonal reconstructions or grain boundaries, however, significantly reduce the tensile strength, but feature…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-20 Daniel Berger , Christian Ratsch

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

The electronic states of an electrostatically confined cylindrical graphene quantum dot and the electric transport through this device are studied theoretically within the continuum Dirac-equation approximation and compared with numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-12 G. Pal , W. Apel , L. Schweitzer

Electrons moving in graphene behave as massless Dirac fermions, and they exhibit fascinating low-frequency electrical transport phenomena. Their dynamic response, however, is little known at frequencies above one terahertz (THz). Such…

Graphene is an attractive material for microelectronics applications, given such favourable electrical characteristics as high mobility, high operating frequency, and good stability. If graphene is to be implemented in electronic devices on…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-14 B. C. Worley , S. Kim , T. J. Ha , S. Park , R. Haws , P. Rossky , D. Akinwande , A. Dodabalapur

An analysis of the electron localization properties in doped graphene is performed by doing a numerical multifractal analysis. By obtaining the singularity spectrum of a tight-binding model, it is found that the electron wave functions…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-07-01 J. E. Barrios-Vargas , Gerardo G. Naumis

There is an increasing amount of literature concerning electronic properties of graphene close to the neutrality point. Many experiments continue using the two-probe geometry or invasive contacts or do not control samples' macroscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-27 P. Blake , R. Yang , S. V. Morozov , F. Schedin , L. A. Ponomarenko , A. A. Zhukov , I. V. Grigorieva , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim

This review aims at a theoretical discussion of Dirac points in two-dimensional systems. Whereas Dirac points and Dirac fermions are prominent low-energy electrons in graphene (two-dimensional graphite), research on Dirac fermions in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Mark O. Goerbig , Gilles Montambaux

The general covariance of the Dirac equation is exploited in order to explore the curvature effects appearing in the electronic properties of graphene. Two physical situations are then considered: the weak curvature regime, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Pavel Castro-Villarreal , R. Ruiz-Sánchez

Making devices with graphene necessarily involves making contacts with metals. We use density functional theory to study how graphene is doped by adsorption on metal substrates and find that weak bonding on Al, Ag, Cu, Au and Pt, while…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Giovannetti , P. A. Khomyakov , G. Brocks , V. M. Karpan , J. van den Brink , P. J. Kelly

The chapter generalizes results on influence of uniaxial strain and adsorption on the electron states and charge transport or localization in graphene with different configurations of imperfections (point defects): resonant (neutral)…