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In this document we explore graphene, a two-dimensional material with remarkable properties. We center our discussion around its electronic characteristics and their applications. We begin by giving a simple electronic model which will then…

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The electronic properties of one-dimensional graphene superlattices strongly depend on the atomic size and orientation of the 1D external periodic potential. Using a tight-binding approach, we show that the armchair and zigzag directions in…

We study the transport properties of Dirac fermions in ABC trilayer graphene (ABC-TLG) superlattices. More specifically, we analyze the impact of varying the physical parameters -- the number of cells, barrier/well width, and barrier…

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We investigate the electronic structure and transport properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) at a twist angle of $\theta\approx 1.696\text{{\deg}}$. Using a combination of molecular dynamics and tight-binding calculations, we find…

The unusual transport properties of graphene are the direct consequence of a peculiar bandstructure near the Dirac point. We determine the shape of the pi bands and their characteristic splitting, and the transition from a pure 2D to…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Taisuke Ohta , Aaron Bostwick , J. L. McChesney , Thomas Seyller , Karsten Horn , Eli Rotenberg

We evaluate the electronic transmission and conductance in bilayer graphene through a finite number of potential barriers. Further, we evaluate the dispersion relation in a bilayer graphene superlattice with a periodic potential applied to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-21 M. Barbier , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters , J. Milton Pereira

We show that a planar array of bipolar waveguides in graphene can be used to engineer gapped and tilted two-dimensional Dirac cones within the electronic band structure. The presence of these gapped and tilted Dirac cones is demonstrated…

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The study of waveguide propagating modes is essential for achieving directional electronic transport in two-dimensional materials. Simultaneously, exploring potential gaps in these systems is crucial for developing devices akin to those…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 V. G. Ibarra-Sierra , E. J. Robles-Raygoza , J. C. Sandoval-Santana , R. Carrillo-Bastos

We study the effect of a structural nanoconstriction on the coherent transport properties of otherwise ideal zig-zag-edged infinitely long graphene ribbons. The electronic structure is calculated with the standard one-orbital tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Muñoz-Rojas , D. Jacob , J. Fernández-Rossier , J. J. Palacios

Rational design of artificial lattices yields effects unavailable in simple solids, and vertical superlattices of multilayer semiconductors are already used in optical sensors and emitters. Manufacturing lateral superlattices remains a much…

The paper presents a theoretical description of the effects of strain induced by out-of-plane deformations on charge distributions and transport on graphene. A review of a continuum model for electrons using the Dirac formalism is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Dawei Zhai , Nancy Sandler

We discuss the novel electronic properties of graphene under an external periodic scalar or vector potential, and the analytical and numerical methods used to investigate them. When graphene is subjected to a one-dimensional periodic scalar…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-21 Cheol-Hwan Park , Liang Zheng Tan , Steven G. Louie

A graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edges has a gapped magnetic ground state with an antiferromagnetic inter-edge superexchange interaction. We present a theory based on asymptotic properties of the Dirac-model ribbon wavefunction which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-31 J. Jung , T. Pereg-Barnea , A. H. MacDonald

Mechanical deformations of graphene induce a term in the Dirac Hamiltonian which is reminiscent of an electromagnetic vector potential. Strain gradients along particular lattice directions induce local pseudomagnetic fields and substantial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Eran Sela , Yakov Bloch , Felix von Oppen , Moshe Ben Shalom

We investigate electronic transport in lithographically patterned graphene ribbon structures where the lateral confinement of charge carriers creates an energy gap near the charge neutrality point. Individual graphene layers are contacted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Melinda Y. Han , Barbaros Oezyilmaz , Yuanbo Zhang , Philip Kim

At low energy, electrons in doped graphene sheets behave like massless Dirac fermions with a Fermi velocity which does not depend on carrier density. Here we show that modulating a two-dimensional electron gas with a long-wavelength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 M. Gibertini , A. Singha , V. Pellegrini , M. Polini , G. Vignale , A. Pinczuk , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Gaussian deformation in graphene structures exhibits an interesting effect in which flower-shaped confinement states are observed in the deformed region [Carrillo-Bastos et al., Phys. Rev. B 90 041411 (2014)]. To exploit such a deformation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Van-Truong Tran , Jérôme Saint-Martin , Philippe Dollfus

We study the electronic states of graphene in piecewise constant potentials using the continuum Dirac equation appropriate at low energies, and a transfer matrix method. For superlattice potentials, we identify patterns of induced Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. P. Arovas , L. Brey , H. A. Fertig , Eun-Ah Kim , K. Ziegler

The electronic implications of strain in graphene can be captured at low energies by means of pseudovector potentials which can give rise to pseudomagnetic fields. These strain-induced vector potentials arise from the local perturbation to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-15 Alexander L. Kitt , Vitor M. Pereira , Anna K. Swan , Bennett B. Goldberg