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Porous graphene (PG) forms a class of graphene-related materials with nanoporous architectures. Their unique atomic arrangements present interconnected networks with high surface area and high pore volume. Some remarkable properties of PG,…

We study carrier transport through graphene on SrTiO$_3$ substrates by considering relative contributions of Coulomb and resonant impurity scattering to graphene resistivity. We establish that charged impurity scattering must dominate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 S. Das Sarma , Qiuzi Li

This work deals with the intrinsic and extrinsic properties of the graphene layers inside the graphite structure, in particular the influence of defects and interfaces. We discuss the evidence for ballistic transport found in mesoscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-13 J. Barzola-Quiquia , A. Ballestar , S. Dusari , P. Esquinazi

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

We study transport properties of graphene-based p-n junctions irradiated by an electromagnetic field (EF). The resonant interaction of propagating quasiparticles with an external monochromatic radiation opens dynamical gaps in their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. V. Syzranov , M. V. Fistul , K. B. Efetov

The observation of quantum conductance oscillations in mesoscopic systems has traditionally required the confinement of the carriers to a phase space of reduced dimensionality. While electron optics such as lensing and focusing have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-20 Andrea F. Young , Philip Kim

We investigate electronic transport through a graphene $n$-$p$ junction in the quantum Hall effect regime at high perpendicular magnetic field, when the filling factors in the $n$-doped and $p$-doped regions are fixed to 2 and -2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-30 Qianfan Ma , François D. Parmentier , Preden Roulleau , Geneviève Fleury

A tight-binding model with randomly fluctuating atomic positions is studied to discuss the effect of strong disorder in graphene. We employ a strong-disorder expansion for the transport quantities and find a diffusive behavior, where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-22 K. Ziegler

Electron transport and quantum conductance through an armchair graphene and its oxidized graphene- containing form were investigated by the density functional theory (DFT) method and the implementation of the non-equilibrium Green function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-29 Badie Ghavami , Alireza Rastkar-Ebrahimzadeh

Recent quantum Hall experiments conducted on disordered graphene pn junction provide evidence that the junction resistance could be described by a simple Ohmic sum of the n and p mediums' resistances. However in the ballistic limit, theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-26 Tony Low

We report on the temperature dependent electron transport in graphene at different carrier densities $n$. Employing an electrolytic gate, we demonstrate that $n$ can be adjusted up to 4$\times10^{14}$cm$^{-2}$ for both electrons and holes.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 Dmitri K. Efetov , Philip Kim

We theoretically calculate the charge-supercurrent through a ballistic graphene junction where superconductivity is induced via the proximity-effect. Both monolayer and bilayer graphene are considered, including the possibility of strain in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-20 Mohammad Alidoust , Jacob Linder

We consider gated graphene nanoribbons subject to Berry-Mondragon boundary conditions in the presence of weak impurities. Using field--theoretical methods, we calculate the density of charge carriers (and, thus, the quantum capacitance) as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-07 C. G. Beneventano , I. V. Fialkovsky , E. M. Santangelo , D. V. Vassilevich

We model disorder in graphene by random impurities treated in a coherent-potential approximation. Using the analytically solvable Lloyd model for the disorder distribution, we show that the temperature dependence of the minimum conductivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-13 Michael Sentef , Marcus Kollar , Arno P. Kampf

In this theoretical study, we explore the manner in which the quantum correction due to weak localization is suppressed in weakly-disordered graphene, when it is subjected to the application of a non-zero voltage. Using a nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 J. Fransson , R. Somphonsane , H. Ramamoorthy , G. He , J. P. Bird

Motivated by the experimental measurement of electrical and hall conductivity, thermopower and Nernst effect, we calculate the longitudinal and transverse electrical and heat transport in graphene in the presence of unitary scatterers as…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Vincent Ugarte , Vivek Aji , C. M. Varma

Electrons transmitted across a ballistic semiconductor junction undergo refraction, analogous to light rays across an optical boundary. A pn junction theoretically provides the equivalent of a negative index medium, enabling novel electron…

We present transport measurements on quantum dots of sizes 45, 60 and 80 nm etched with an Ar/O2-plasma into a single graphene sheet, allowing a size comparison avoiding effects from different graphene flakes. The transport gaps and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-01 D. Kölbl , D. M. Zumbühl

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

Electron-electron (e-e) collisions can impact transport in a variety of surprising and sometimes counterintuitive ways. Despite strong interest, experiments on the subject proved challenging because of the simultaneous presence of different…