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Straining graphene results in the appearance of a pseudo-magnetic field which alters its local electronic properties. Applying a pressure difference between the two sides of the membrane causes it to bend/bulge resulting in a resistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-03 S. P. Milovanovic , M. Z. Tadic , F. M. Peeters

Graphene ripples possess peculiar essential properties owing to the strong chemical bonds, as an investigation using first principle calculations clearly revealed. Various charge distributions, bond lengths, energy bands, and densities of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-08 Shih-Yang Lin , Shen-Lin Chang , Feng-Lin Shyu , Jian-Ming Lu , Ming-Fa Lin

This review explores the synthesis, characterization, and potential applications of graphene, a two-dimensional material with exceptional properties. Graphene's versatility in energy and electronics applications is highlighted, with its…

Graphene is a unique two-dimensional material with rich new physics and great promise for applications in electronic devices. Physical phenomena such as the half-integer quantum Hall effect and high carrier mobility are critically dependent…

Metal/graphene interfaces generated by electrode deposition induce barriers or potential modulations influencing the electronic transport properties of graphene based devices. However, their impact on the local mechanical properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-21 Zoltán Osváth , François Lefloch , Vincent Bouchiat , Claude Chapelier

Graphene is a realization of an esoteric class of materials -- electronic crystalline membranes. We study the interplay between the free electrons and the two-dimensional crystal, and find that it induces a substantial effect on the elastic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-03-31 Doron Gazit

Isolated, atomically thin conducting membranes of graphite, called graphene, have recently been the subject of intense research with the hope that practical applications in fields ranging from electronics to energy science will emerge.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 S. Garaj , W. Hubbard , A. Reina , J. Kong , D. Branton , J. A. Golovchenko

The nature of its intrinsic ripples is the key factor for understanding the stability of suspended graphene, and for unraveling the long-standing theoretical debate of the existence of low-dimensional crystalline state. The rippling…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-17 Yangfan Hu

Graphene is intrinsically non-flat and corrugates randomly. Since the corrugating physics of atomically-thin graphene is strongly tied to its electronics properties, randomly corrugating morphology of graphene poses significant challenge to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Teng Li

We report here on a method to fabricate and characterize highly perfect, periodically rippled graphene monolayers and islands, epitaxially grown on single crystal metallic substrates under controlled UHV conditions. The periodicity of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 B. Borca , S. Barja , M. Garnica , J. J. Hinarejos , A. L. Vazquez de Parga , R. Miranda , F. Guinea

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

Graphene is a famous realization of elastic crystalline 2D membrane. Thermal fluctuations of a 2D membrane tend to destroy the long-range order in the system. Such fluctuations are stabilized by strong anharmonicity effects, which preserve…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-10-30 I. V. Gornyi , V. Yu. Kachorovskii , A. D. Mirlin

We consider a model of Dirac fermions coupled to flexural phonons to describe a graphene sheet fluctuating in dimension $2+d$. We derive the self-consistent screening equations for the quantum problem, exact in the limit of large $d$. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 Francisco Guinea , Pierre Le Doussal , Kay Joerg Wiese

This article reviews the basic theoretical aspects of graphene, a one atom thick allotrope of carbon, with unusual two-dimensional Dirac-like electronic excitations. The Dirac electrons can be controlled by application of external electric…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-15 A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim

Graphene, the first truly two-dimensional (one atom thin) material, possesses strongly nonlinear electrodynamic and optical properties. At low (microwave, terahertz) frequencies this results from the unique electronic property of graphene -…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Sergey Mikhailov

Graphene has many unique properties that make it an ideal material for fundamental studies as well as for potential applications. Here we review the recent results on the Raman spectroscopy and imaging of graphene. Raman spectroscopy and…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-17 Zhen hua Ni , Ying ying Wang , Ting Yu , Ze xiang Shen

Raised above the substrate and elastically deformed areas of graphene in the form of bubbles are found on different substrates. They come in a variety of shapes, including those which allow strong modification of the electronic properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-31 T. Georgiou , L. Britnell , P. Blake , R. V. Gorbachev , A. Gholinia , A. K. Geim , C. Casiraghi , K. S. Novoselov

We previously show [JETP Letters, {\bf 114}, 763 (2021)] that a graphene sample placed on a ferromagnetic substrate demonstrates a cooperative magnetoelectronic instability. The instability induces a gap in the electronic spectrum and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 D. N. Dresviankin , A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov

As the thinnest atomic membrane, graphene presents an opportunity to combine geometry, elasticity and electronics at the limits of their validity. The availability of reliable atomistic potentials for graphene allows unprecedented precise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-27 Vitor M. Pereira , A. H. Castro Neto , H. Y. Liang , L. Mahadevan

Single layers of carbon dubbed "graphenes", from which graphite is built, have attracted broad interest in the scientific community because of recent exciting experimental results. Graphene is interesting from a fundamental research…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-01-05 Yakov Kopelevich , Pablo Esquinazi