Electron dynamics in strained graphene

Substrate-limited electron dynamics in graphene

Electron spin dynamics and electron spin resonance in graphene

A theory of spin relaxation in graphene including intrinsic, Bychkov-Rashba, and ripple spinorbit coupling is presented. We find from spin relaxation data by Tombros et al. (Nature, 448 (2007) 571) that intrinsic spin-orbit coupling dominates over other contributions with a coupling constant of 3.7 meV. Although it is 1–3 orders of magnitude larger than those obtained from first principles, we ...

Effective Hamiltonian of strained graphene.

Based on the symmetry properties of the graphene lattice, we derive the effective Hamiltonian of graphene under spatially nonuniform acoustic and optical strains. Comparison with the published results of the first-principles calculations allows us to determine the values of some Hamiltonian parameters, and suggests the validity of the derived Hamiltonian for acoustical strain up to 10%. The re...

Covalent functionalization of strained graphene.

An enhancement of the chemical activity of graphene is evidenced by first-principles modelling of the chemisorption of hydrogen, fluorine, oxygen and hydroxyl groups on strained graphene. For the case of negative strain or compression, chemisorption of the single hydrogen, fluorine or hydroxyl group is energetically more favourable than those of their pairs on different sublattices. This behavi...

Space dependent Fermi velocity in strained graphene.

We investigate some apparent discrepancies between two different models for curved graphene: the one based on tight-binding and elasticity theory, and the covariant approach based on quantum field theory in curved space. We demonstrate that strained or corrugated samples will have a space-dependent Fermi velocity in either approach that can affect the interpretation of local probe experiments i...