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We investigate the ballistic electron transport in a monolayer graphene with configurational averaged impurities, located between two clean graphene leads. It is shown that the electron transmission are strongly dependent on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-28 Juan Sebastian Ardenghi , Pablo Bechthold , Estela Gonzalez , Paula Jasen , Alfredo Juan

We demonstrate the use of a quantum transport model to study heavily graded graphene p-n junctions in the quantum Hall regime. A combination of p-n interface roughness and delta function disorder potential allows us to compare experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Samuel W LaGasse , Ji Ung Lee

We have investigated the electrostatics and electronic transport of the gate tunable 2D pn junction by implementing a comprehensive physics-based simulator that self-consistently solves the 2D Poisson's equation coupled to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-12 Ferney A. Chaves , David Jiménez

We have developed a process to fabricate suspended graphene devices with local bottom gates, and tested it by realizing electrostatically controlled pn junctions on a suspended graphene mono-layer nearly 2 micrometers long. Measurements as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-18 Anya L. Grushina , Dong-Keun Ki , Alberto F. Morpurgo

We perform electrical transport measurements in graphene with several sample geometries. In particular, we design ``invasive'' probes crossing the whole graphene sheet as well as ``external'' probes connected through graphene side arms. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-07 B. Huard , N. Stander , J. A. Sulpizio , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

We study charge transport in one-dimensional graphene superlattices created by applying layered periodic and disordered potentials. It is shown that the transport and spectral properties of such structures are strongly anisotropic. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 Yury P. Bliokh , Valentin Freilikher , Sergey Savel'ev , Franco Nori

We investigate the conductivity of graphene sheet deformed over a gate. The effect of the deformation on the conductivity is twofold: The lattice distortion can be represented as pseudovector potential in the Dirac equation formalism,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. V. Medvedyeva , Ya. M. Blanter

We theoretically revisit graphene transport properties as a function of carrier density, taking into account possible correlations in the spatial distribution of the Coulomb impurity disorder in the environment. We find that the charged…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-06 Qiuzi Li , E. H. Hwang , E. Rossi , S. Das Sarma

As most materials available in macroscopic quantities, graphene appears in a polycrystalline form and thus contains grain boundaries. In the present work, the effect of uniaxial strain on the electronic transport properties through graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-07 Viet Hung Nguyen , Trinh Xuan Hoang , Philippe Dollfus , Jean-Christophe Charlier

Since the advent of graphene, a variety of studies have been performed to elucidate its fundamental physics, or to explore its practical applications. Gate-tunable resistance is one of the most important properties of graphene and has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-28 Taiki Hirahara , Ryoya Ebisuoka , Takushi Oka , Tomoaki Nakasuga , Shingo Tajima , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ryuta Yagi

In this review, we provide an account of the recent progress in understanding electronic transport in disordered graphene systems. Starting from a theoretical description that emphasizes the role played by band structure properties and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Caio H. Lewenkopf

Q. Ma et al.[1] recently reported a strong photocurrent associated with charge neutrality in graphene devices with non-uniform geometries, which they interpreted as an intrinsic photoresponse enhanced by the momentum non-relaxing nature of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Michael S. Fuhrer , Nikhil V. Medhekar

We present a comparative study of high carrier density transport in mono-, bi-, and trilayer graphene using electric-double-layer transistors to continuously tune the carrier density up to values exceeding 10^{14} cm^{-2}. Whereas in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 J. T. Ye , M. F. Craciun , M. Koshino , S. Russo , S. Inoue , H. T. Yuan , H. Shimotani , A. F. Morpurgo , Y. Iwasa

We theoretically study the transport properties of both monolayer and bilayer graphene in the presence of electron-hole puddles induced by charged impurities which are invariably present in the graphene environment. We calculate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-28 Qiuzi Li , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We investigate transport in locally-gated graphene devices, where carriers are injected and collected along, rather than across, the gate edge. Tuning densities into the p-n regime significantly reduces resistance along the p-n interface,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-21 J. R. Williams , C. M. Marcus

The relativistic charge carriers in monolayer graphene can be manipulated in manners akin to conventional optics (electron-optics): angle-dependent Klein tunneling collimates an electron beam (analogous to a laser), while a Veselago…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Xi Zhang* , Wei Ren* , Elliot Bell , Ziyan Zhu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Efthimios Kaxiras , Mitchell Luskin , Ke Wang

Electrons in graphene follow unconventional trajectories at PN junctions, driven by their pseudospintronic degree of freedom. Significant is the prominent angular dependence of transmission, capturing the chiral nature of the electrons and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Redwan N. Sajjad , S. Sutar , J. U. Lee , Avik W. Ghosh

We consider a graphene sheet in the vicinity of a substrate, which contains charged impurities. An analytic expression for the probability distribution function of voltage fluctuations due to the charged impurities is derived. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-14 Victor Galitski , Shaffique Adam , S. Das Sarma

The vertical configuration is a powerful tool recently developed experimentally to investigate field effects in quasi 2D systems. Prototype graphene-based vertical tunneling transistors can achieve an extraordinary control over current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Yun-Peng Wang , J. N. Fry , Hai-Ping Cheng

We discuss the effect of disorder on the band gap measured in bilayer graphene in optical and transport experiments. By calculating the optical conductivity and density of states using a microscopic model in the presence of disorder, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Hongki Min , D. S. L. Abergel , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma