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We articulate the challenges and opportunities of unconventional devices using the photon like flow of electrons in graphene, such as Graphene Klein Tunnel (GKT) transistors. The underlying physics is the employment of momentum rather than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-01 Mirza M. Elahi , K. M. Masum Habib , Ke Wang , Gil-Ho Lee , Philip Kim , Avik W. Ghosh

Nitrogen-doped graphene was recently synthesized and was reported to be a catalyst for hydrogen dissociative adsorption under a perpendicular applied electric field (F). In this work, the diffusion of H atoms on N-doped graphene, in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-02-15 Z. M. Ao , A. D. Hernández-Nieves , F. M. Peeters , S. Li

In this paper we describe a graphene p-n junction created by chemical doping. We find that chemical doping does not reduce mobility in contrast to top-gating. The preparation technique has been developed from systematic studies about…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Timm Lohmann , Klaus v. Klitzing , Jurgen H. Smet

The dynamical approach is applied to ballistic transport in mesoscopic graphene samples of length L and contact potential U. At times shorter than both relevant time scales, the flight time and \hslash/U, the major effect of the electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Lewkowicz , B. Rosenstein , D. Nghiem

We study non-linear dc transport in graphene using a hydrodynamic approach and conclude that in clean samples the drift velocity saturates at a weakly density-dependent value v_{sat} ~ 10^7 cm/s. We show that saturation results from the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Bistritzer , A. H. MacDonald

We study the the transport properties of multiterminal ballistic graphene samples, concentrating on the conductance matrix, fluctuations and cross-correlations. Far away from Dirac point, the current is carried mostly by propagating modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-03 M. A. Laakso , T. T. Heikkilä

Van der Waals structures formed by aligning monolayer graphene with insulating layers of hexagonal boron nitride exhibit a moir\'e superlattice that is expected to break sublattice symmetry. Despite an energy gap of several tens of…

The charge carrier density in graphene on a dielectric substrate such as SiO$_2$ displays inhomogeneities, the so-called charge puddles. Because of the linear dispersion relation in monolayer graphene, the puddles are predicted to grow near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 S. Samaddar , I. Yudhistira , S. Adam , H. Courtois , C. B. Winkelmann

High quality epitaxial graphene films can be applied as templates for tailoring graphene-substrate interfaces that allow for precise control of the charge carrier behavior in graphene through doping and many-body effects. By combining…

Conductance of zigzag interfaces between graphene sheet and normal metal is investigated in the tight-binding approximation. Boundary conditions, valid for a variety of scattering problems, are constructed and applied to the normal metal --…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ya. M. Blanter , Ivar Martin

Charge-neutral conducting systems represent a class of materials with unusual properties governed by electron-hole (e-h) interactions. Depending on the quasiparticles' statistics, band structure, and device geometry these semimetallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 D. A. Bandurin , A. Principi , I. Y. Phinney , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , P. Jarillo-Herrero

We have performed scanning gate microscopy (SGM) on graphene field effect transistors (GFET), using a biased metallic nanowire coated with a dielectric layer as a contact mode tip and local top gate. Electrical transport through graphene at…

We demonstrate a quantum Hall edge-channel interferometer in a high-quality graphene pn junction under a high magnetic field. The co-propagating p and n quantum Hall edge channels traveling along the pn interface functions as a built-in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Sei Morikawa , Satoru Masubuchi , Rai Moriya , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Tomoki Machida

We investigate the transport characteristics of monolayer graphene p-n junctions by means of the non-equilibrium Green's function technique. It is shown that thanks to the high interband tunneling of chiral fermions and to a finite bandgap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 V. Hung Nguyen , A. Bournel , P. Dollfus

Bilayer graphene twisted by a small angle shows a significant charge modulation away from neutrality, as the charge in the narrow bands near the Dirac point is mostly localized in the regions of the Moir\'e pattern with $AA$ stacking. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Francisco Guinea , Niels R. Walet

Graphene is an attractive electrode material to contact nanostructures down to the molecular scale since it can be gated electrostatically. Gating can be used to control the doping and the energy level alignment in the nanojunction, thereby…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Nick R. Papior , Tue Gunst , Daniele Stradi , Mads Brandbyge

We report measurements of the cyclotron mass in graphene for carrier concentrations n varying over three orders of magnitude. In contrast to the single-particle picture, the real spectrum of graphene is profoundly nonlinear so that the…

We study the conductivity of graphene with a smooth but particle-hole-asymmetric disorder potential. Using perturbation theory for the weak-disorder regime and numerical calculations we investigate how the particle-hole asymmetry shifts the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 Max Hering , Martin Schneider , Piet W. Brouwer

Electronic properties of the graphene layer sandwiched between two hexagonal boron nitride sheets have been studied using the first-principles calculations and the minimal tight-binding model. It is shown that for the ABC-stacked structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-10 J. Slawinska , I. Zasada , P. Kosinski , Z. Klusek

The motion of massless Dirac-electrons in graphene mimics the propagation of photons. This makes it possible to control the charge-carriers with components based on geometrical-optics and has led to proposals for an all-graphene…