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Bilayer graphene (BLG) with a tunable bandgap appears interesting as an alternative to graphene for practical applications, thus its transport properties are being actively pursued. Using density functional theory and perturbation analysis,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-11 Changwon Park , Junga Ryou , Suklyun Hong , Bobby Sumpter , Gunn Kim , Mina Yoon

The inhomogenous real-space electronic structure of gapless and gapped disordered bilayer graphene is calculated in the presence of quenched charge impurities. For gapped bilayer graphene we find that for current experimental conditions the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 E. Rossi , S. Das Sarma

Over the years, great efforts have been devoted in introducing a sizable and tunable band gap in graphene for its potential application in next-generation electronic devices. The primary challenge in modulating this gap has been the absence…

Bilayer graphene is a promising material for radio-frequency transistors because its energy gap might result in a better current saturation than the monolayer graphene. Because the great deal of interest in this technology, especially for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Francisco Pasadas , David Jiménez

We have measured the magneto-resistance of freely suspended high-mobility bilayer graphene. For magnetic fields $B>1$ T we observe the opening of a field induced gap at the charge neutrality point characterized by a diverging resistance.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 H. J. van Elferen , A. Veligura , E. V. Kurganova , U. Zeitler , J. C. Maan , N. Tombros , I. J. Vera-Marun , B. J. van Wees

Graphene-based materials show promise for spintronic applications due to their potentially large spin coherence length. On the other hand, because of their small intrinsic spin-orbit interaction, an external magnetic source is desirable in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Paolo Michetti , Patrik Recher

The discovery of magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) has unveiled a rich variety of superconducting, magnetic and topologically nontrivial phases. The existence of all these phases in one material, and their tunability, has opened…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Petr Stepanov , Ming Xie , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Xiaobo Lu , Allan H. MacDonald , B. Andrei Bernevig , Dmitri K. Efetov

An interlayer distance modulation in twisted bilayer graphene is reported. This is achieved by an in-situ annealing technique. The transformation of systematic vacuum and hydrogen annealing effects in twisted bilayer CVD graphene on SiO2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Jothiramalingam Kulothungan , Manoharan Muruganathan , Hiroshi Mizuta

When twisted to angles near 1{\deg}, graphene multilayers provide a new window on electron correlation physics by hosting gate-tuneable strongly-correlated states, including insulators, superconductors, and unusual magnets. Here we report…

In this work we carry out a theoretical study of the phonon-induced resistivity in twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG), in which two Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene devices are rotated relative to each other by a small angle $\theta$. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-30 Xiao Li , Fengcheng Wu , S. Das Sarma

We introduce effective field theories for the electronic properties of graphene in terms of relativistic fermions propagating in 2+1 dimensions, and outline how strong inter-electron interactions may be modelled by numerical simulation of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-09 Simon Hands , Wes Armour , Costas Strouthos

We report on a capacitance study of dual gated bilayer graphene. The measured capacitance allows us to probe the electronic compressibility as a function of carrier density, temperature, and applied perpendicular electrical displacement D.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 A. F. Young , C. R. Dean , I. Meric , S. Sorgenfrei , H. Ren , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , J. Hone , K. L. Shepard , P. Kim

An energy gap can be opened in the electronic spectrum of graphene by lifting its sublattice symmetry. In bilayers, it is possible to open gaps as large as 0.2 eV. However, these gaps rarely lead to a highly insulating state expected for…

Graphene is a quantum spin Hall insulator with a 45 $\mu$eV wide non-trivial topological gap induced by the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling. Even though this zero-field spin splitting is weak, it makes graphene an attractive candidate for…

We study the room-temperature electrical control of charge and spin transport in high-quality bilayer graphene, fully encapsulated with hBN and contacted via 1D spin injectors. We show that spin transport in this device architecture is…

Electron transport in bilayer graphene placed under a perpendicular electric field is revealed experimentally. Steep increase of the resistance is observed under high electric field; however, the resistance does not diverge even at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-16 Hisao Miyazaki , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi , Akinobu Kanda , Minoru Otani , Susumu Okada

We propose two schemes of field-effect transistor based on gapped armchair graphene nanoribbons connected to metal leads, by introducing sidearms or on-site gate voltages. We make use of the band gap to reach excellent switch-off character.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 H. Tong , M. W. Wu

Using the first principles calculations, we show that mechanically tunable electronic energy gap is realizable in bilayer graphene if different homogeneous strains are applied to the two layers. It is shown that the size of energy gap can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-13 Seon-Myeong Choi , Seung-Hoon Jhi , Young-Woo Son

We fabricated graphene pnp devices, by embedding pre-defined local gates in an oxidized surface layer of a silicon substrate. With neither dielectric-material deposition nor electron-beam irradiation on the graphene, we obtained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Seung-Geol Nam , Dong-Keun Ki , Jong Wan Park , Youngwook Kim , Jun Sung Kim , Hu-Jong Lee

A drastic modification of electronic band structure is predicted in bilayer graphene when it is placed between two ferromagnetic insulators. Due to the exchange interaction with the proximate ferromagnet, the electronic energy dispersion in…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-04-04 Y. G. Semenov , K. W. Kim , J. M. Zavada