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Graphene has many unique properties which make it an attractive material for fundamental study as well as for potential applications. In this paper, we report the first experimental study of process-induced defects and stress in graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-06-04 Zhen Hua Ni , Hao Min Wang , Yun Ma , Johnson Kasim , Yi Hong Wu , Ze Xiang Shen

We present transfer-length-method measurements of the contact resistance between Cu and graphene, and a method to significantly reduce the contact resistance by vacuum annealing. Even in samples with heavily contaminated contacts, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 C. E. Malec , B. Elkus , D. Davidovic

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) realizes dissipationless longitudinal resistivity and quantized Hall resistance without the need of an external magnetic field. However, when reducing the device dimensions or increasing the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Gertjan Lippertz , Andrea Bliesener , Anjana Uday , Lino M. C. Pereira , A. A. Taskin , Yoichi Ando

We present a study of transport in graphene devices on polar insulating substrates by solving the Bolzmann transport equation in the presence of graphene phonon, surface polar phonon, and Coulomb charged impurity scattering. The value of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Vasili Perebeinos , Phaedon Avouris

We report measurements on a graphene quantum dot with an integrated graphene charge detector. The quantum dot device consists of a graphene island (diameter approx. 200 nm) connected to source and drain contacts via two narrow graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-25 J. Guettinger , C. Stampfer , S. Hellmueller , F. Molitor , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

Heat has always been a killing matter for traditional semiconductor machines. The underlining physical reason is that the intrinsic carrier density of a device made from a traditional semiconductor material increases very fast with a rising…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-04-21 Yan Yin , Zengguang Cheng , Li Wang , Kuijuan Jin , Wenzhong Wang

We report observations of well developed half integer quantum Hall effect (QHE) on mono layer graphene films of 7 mm \times 7 mm in size. The graphene films are grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on copper, then transferred to SiO_{2}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Tian Shen , Wei Wu , Qingkai Yu , Curt A Richter , Randolph Elmquist , David Newell , Yong P. Chen

We study quantum tunneling through a potential barrier whose height fluctuates in time and is modeled by Gaussian white noise. We map the stochastic dynamics onto an equivalent time-independent Lindblad equation for the density matrix,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Kamal Azaidaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli , A. Al Luhaibi , Michael Vogl

We employ molecular dynamic simulations to study the reduction process of graphene-oxide (GO) in a chemically active environment enriched with hydrogen. We examine the concentration and pressure of hydrogen gas as a function of temperature…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-28 Ramin M. Abolfath , Kyeongjae Cho

Electron-electron interactions in high-mobility conductors can give rise to transport signatures resembling those described by classical hydrodynamics. Using a nanoscale scanning magnetometer, we imaged a distinctive hydrodynamic transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Marius L. Palm , Chaoxin Ding , William S. Huxter , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Christian L. Degen

The quantum Hall effect (QHE) theoretically provides a universal standard of electrical resistance in terms of the Planck constant $h$ and the electron charge $e$. In graphene, the spacing between the lowest discrete energy levels occupied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-27 R. Ribeiro-Palau , F. Lafont , J. Brun-Picard , D. Kazazis , A. Michon , F. Cheynis , O. Couturaud , C. Consejo , B. Jouault , W. Poirier , F. Schopfer

The quantum Hall (QH) effect in two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) is conventionally observed at liquid-helium temperatures, where lattice vibrations are strongly suppressed and bulk carrier scattering is dominated by disorder.…

Density functional calculations are employed to study the molecular dissociation of hydrogen on graphene, the diffusion of chemisorbed atomic species, and the electronic properties of the resulting hydrogen on graphene system. Our results…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-06-03 Hayley McKay , David J. Wales , S. J. Jenkins , J. A. Verges , P. L. de Andres

The ability to localize and manipulate individual quasiparticles in mesoscopic structures is critical in experimental studies of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics, and in potential quantum information devices, e.g., for topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Scott Mills , Anna Gura , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Matthew Dawber , Dmitri Averin , Xu Du

We demonstrate the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in single-layer graphene exchange-coupled to an atomically flat yttrium iron garnet (YIG) ferromagnetic thin film. The anomalous Hall conductance has magnitude of ~0.09(2e2/h) at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Zhiyong Wang , Chi Tang , Raymond Sachs , Yafis Barlas , Jing Shi

A new mechanism that induces charge density variations in corrugated graphene is proposed. Here it is shown how the interplay between lattice deformations and exchange interactions can induce charge separation, i.e., puddles of electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-08 L. Brey , J. J. Palacios

The problem of a magnetic impurity, atomic or molecular, absorbed on top of a carbon atom in otherwise clean graphene is studied using the numerical renormalization group. The spectral, thermodynamic, and scattering properties of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-01-27 P. S. Cornaglia , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

Interband transitions of electrons in a gapped graphene monolayer are highly stimulated near the Fermi surface when a high-frequency electric wave of weak intensity and a strong constant electric field are superposed in the plane of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Selym Villalba-Chávez , Oliver Mathiak , Reinhold Egger , Carsten Müller

We observe mechanical effects of an exfoliated graphene monolayer deposited on a quartz crystal substrate designed to operate as an extremely low-loss bulk-acoustic-wave cavity at liquid-helium temperature.This is achieved by sensing…

Free-standing graphene is inherently crumpled in the out-of-plane direction due to dynamic flexural phonons and static wrinkling. We explore the consequences of this crumpling on the effective mechanical constants of graphene. We develop a…