Electronic and optical properties of strained graphene and other strained 2D materials: a review

GG Naumis, S Barraza-Lopez… - Reports on Progress …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This review presents the state of the art in strain and ripple-induced effects on the electronic
and optical properties of graphene. It starts by providing the crystallographic description of …

Straintronics in graphene: Extra large electronic band gap induced by tensile and shear strains

IY Sahalianov, TM Radchenko, VA Tatarenko… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The possibility of inducing a sizeable energy gap in the electronic structure of a graphene
layer is still one of the biggest and most debated challenges in graphene electronics …

[HTML][HTML] Functionalization of quasi-two-dimensional materials: chemical and strain-induced modifications

AG Solomenko, RM Balabai, TM Radchenko… - Prog. Phys …, 2022 - ufm.imp.kiev.ua
Among the family of currently known promising quasi-two-dimensional (2D) materials, the
authors of this survey concentrate on the problem of functionalization of the graphene-and …

Electron optics and valley hall effect of undulated graphene

H Yu, A Kutana, BI Yakobson - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Electron optics is the systematic use of electromagnetic (EM) fields to control electron
motions. In graphene, strain induces pseudo-electromagnetic fields to guide electron …

Effective Dirac Hamiltonian for anisotropic honeycomb lattices: optical properties

M Oliva-Leyva, GG Naumis - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We derive the low-energy Hamiltonian for a honeycomb lattice with anisotropy in the
hopping parameters. Taking the reported Dirac Hamiltonian for the anisotropic honeycomb …

Gauge fields in graphene with nonuniform elastic deformations: A quantum field theory approach

E Arias, AR Hernández, C Lewenkopf - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We investigate the low-energy continuum limit theory for electrons in a graphene sheet
under strain. We use the quantum field theory in curved spaces to analyze the effect of the …

Strain–displacement relations for strain engineering in single-layer 2d materials

D Midtvedt, CH Lewenkopf, A Croy - 2D Materials, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the electromechanical coupling in single-layer 2d materials. For non-Bravais
lattices, we find important corrections to the standard macroscopic strain-microscopic atomic …

Mutual influence of uniaxial tensile strain and point defect pattern on electronic states in graphene

IY Sagalianov, TM Radchenko, YI Prylutskyy… - The European Physical …, 2017 - Springer
The study deals with electronic properties of uniaxially stressed mono-and multi-layer
graphene sheets with various kinds of imperfection: point defects modelled as resonant …

Defect‐pattern‐induced fingerprints in the electron density of states of strained graphene layers: diffraction and simulation methods

TM Radchenko, VA Tatarenko, VV Lizunov… - … status solidi (b), 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The paper combines two theoretical approaches–the method of grazing dynamical
diffraction (which allows performing the nondestructive structural diagnostics of defects in …

Magnetic field-, strain-, and disorder-induced responses in an energy spectrum of graphene

IY Sahalianov, TM Radchenko, VA Tatarenko… - Annals of Physics, 2018 - Elsevier
We study numerically a role of the uniaxial tensile strains and disordered defects in their
impact on electronic density of states (DOS) in graphene exposed to an external magnetic …