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We use the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) method in the ballistic limit to provide a quantitative description of the conductance of graphene pn junctions - an important building block for graphene electronics devices. In this paper,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-06 Tony Low , Seokmin Hong , Joerg Appenzeller , Supriyo Datta , Mark Lundstrom

The p-n junctions dynamics in graphene channel induced by stripe domains nucleation, motion and reversal in a ferroelectric substrate is explored using self-consistent approach based on Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire phenomenology combined with…

Ballistic semiconductor structures have allowed the realization of optics-like phenomena in electronics, including magnetic focusing and lensing. An extension that appears unique to graphene is to use both n and p carrier types to create…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-27 J. R. Williams , Tony Low , M. S. Lundstrom , C. M. Marcus

The conductance of ballistic graphene at the neutrality point is due to coherent electron tunneling between the leads, the so called pseudodiffusive regime. The conductance scales as function of the sample dimensions in the same way as in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson

Spatial manipulation of current flow in graphene could be achieved through the use of a tilted pn junction. We show through numerical simulation that a pseudo-Hall effect (i.e. non-equilibrium charge and current density accumulating along…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-20 Tony Low , Joerg Appenzeller

Graphene's linear dispersion relation and the attendant implications for bipolar electronics applications have motivated a range of experimental efforts aimed at producing p-n junctions in graphene. Here we report electrical transport…

We provide a semiclassical description of the electronic transport through graphene n-p junctions in the quantum Hall regime. A semiclassical approximation for the conductance is derived in terms of the various snake-like trajectories at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-21 Pierre Carmier , Caio Lewenkopf , Denis Ullmo

Disordered Fermi-Dirac distributions are used to model, within a straightforward and essentially phenomenological Boltzmann equation approach, the electron/hole transport across graphene puddles. We establish, with striking experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 L. Moriconi , D. Niemeyer

Transport through potential barriers in graphene is investigated using a set of metallic gates capacitively coupled to graphene to modulate the potential landscape. When a gate-induced potential step is steep enough, disorder becomes less…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-18 N. Stander , B. Huard , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

A ballistic strip of graphene (width W>> length L) connecting two normal metal contacts is known to have a minimum conductivity of 4e^{2}/pi h at the Dirac point of charge neutrality. We calculate what happens if one of the two contacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. J. Beenakker

Generating discernible valley contrasts and segregating valley-indexed fermions in real space within graphene poses considerable challenges due to the isotropic transport within the continuum energy range for degenerate valleys. This study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Shrushti Tapar , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

We study tunnel junctions consisting of a two-dimensional ferroelectric (FE) material sandwiched between graphene electrodes. We formulate a theory for the interplay of the FE polarization and induced free charges in such devices, taking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 David Koprivica , Eran Sela

In Dirac materials, the low energy excitations behave like ultra-relativistic massless particles with linear energy dispersion. A particularly intriguing phenomenon arises with the intrinsic charge transport behavior at the Dirac point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 Piranavan Kumaravadivel , Xu Du

A number of interesting properties of graphene and graphite are postulated to derive from the peculiar bandstructure of graphene. This bandstructure consists of conical electron and hole pockets that meet at a single point in momentum (k)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Aaron Bostwick , Taisuke Ohta , Thomas Seyller , K. Horn , Eli Rotenberg

The calculated electron mobility for a graphene nanoribbon as a function of applied electric field has been found to have a large threshold field for entering a nonlinear transport regime. This field depends on the lattice temperature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , O. Roslyak

In this review we focus on the effect of the Dirac nature of graphene quasiparticles on two separate aspects. The first of these involves transport across superconducting graphene junctions with barriers of thickness $d_0$ and arbitrary…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-11 M. Maiti , K. Saha , K. Sengupta

Graphene charge carriers behave as relativistic massless fermions, thereby exhibiting a variety of counter-intuitive behaviors. In particular, at p-n junctions, they behave as photons encountering a negative index media, therefore…

The relativistic nature of Dirac electrons and holes in graphene profoundly affects the way they interact with impurities. Signatures of the relativistic behavior have been observed recently in scanning tunneling measurements on individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-24 Atikur Rahman , Janice Wynn Guikema , Nina Markovic

Quantum dynamics and kinetics of electrically gated graphene ribbons with lateral n-p and e-n-p junctions under magnetic field are investigated. It is shown that the snake-like states of quasiparticles skipping along the n-p interface do…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-27 A. M. Kadigrobov

We propose a graphene-based model for realizing a new type of gapless condensate by pairing of electron-like (n) carriers of a Dirac cone conduction band with hole-like (p) carriers of a Dirac valance band. Ferromagnetic superconductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Mir Vahid Hosseini , Malek Zareyan