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Linear conductance of graphene-based p-n junctions with Rashba spin-orbit coupling is considered theoretically. A square potential step is used to model the junctions, while the coupling is introduced in terms of the Kane-Mele model (C.L.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-29 Marek Rataj , Józef Barnaś

The intrinsic values of the carriers mobility and density of the graphene layers inside graphite, the well known structure built on these layers in the Bernal stacking configuration, are not well known mainly because most of the research…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Dusari , J. Barzola-Quiquia , P. Esquinazi , N. García

We present measurements on side gated graphene constrictions of different geometries. We characterize the transport gap by its width in back gate voltage and compare this to an analysis based on Coulomb blockade measurements of localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-10 F. Molitor , A. Jacobsen , C. Stampfer , J. Guettinger , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

An algorithm is introduced for predicting quantized resistances in graphene p-n junction devices that utilize more than a single entry and exit point for electron flow. Depending on the configuration of an arbitrary number of terminals,…

We study electron transport properties of a monoatomic graphite layer (graphene) with different types of disorder. We show that the transport properties of the system depend strongly on the character of disorder. Away from half filling, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

We investigate the electron transport in smooth graphene pn junctions, generated by gradually varying electrostatic potentials. The numerically calculated coherent current flow patterns can be understood largely in terms of semi-classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Emmanuel Paredes-Rocha , Yonatan Betancur-Ocampo , Nikodem Szpak , Thomas Stegmann

We experimentally investigate the charge induction mechanism across gated, narrow, ballistic graphene devices with different degrees of edge disorder. By using magnetoconductance measurements as the probing technique, we demonstrate that…

In contrast to graphene which is a gapless semiconductor, graphane, the hydrogenated graphene, is a semiconductor with an energy gap. Together with the two-dimensional geometry, unique transport features of graphene, and possibility of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-04 Behnaz Gharekhanlou , Sina Khorasani

Based on explicit solution of current continuity equation in the graphene FET's channel the semi-classical diffusion-drift description of the carrier transport and I-V characteristics model has been developed. Role of rechargeable defects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-14 Gennady I. Zebrev

We develop a theory for the compressibility and quantum capacitance of disordered monolayer and bilayer graphene including the full hyperbolic band structure and band gap in the latter case. We include the effects of disorder in our theory,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-09 D. S. L. Abergel , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We present a study of a graphene-based Josephson junction with dedicated side gates carved from the same sheet of graphene as the junction itself. These side gates are highly efficient, and allow us to modulate carrier density along either…

Dirac-electronic tunneling and nonlinear transport properties with both finite and zero energy bandgap are investigated for graphene with a tilted potential barrier under a bias. For validation, results from a finite-difference based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Farhana Anwar , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Ashwani Sharma

The effects of strain, induced by a Gaussian bump, on the magnetic field dependent transport properties of a graphene Hall bar are investigated. The numerical simulations are performed using both classical and quantum mechanical transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 S. P. Milovanovic , F. M. Peeters

Scanning tunneling potentiometry (STP) is used to probe the local, current-induced electrochemical potential of carriers in graphene near circular electrostatic barriers in an out-of-plane magnetic field ranging from 0 to 1.4 T. These…

We investigate charge transport of pn and npn junctions made from silicene, Si analogue of graphene. The conductance shows the distinct gate-voltage dependences peculiar to the topological and non-topological phases, where the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-12 Ai Yamakage , Motohiko Ezawa , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

Today the availability of high mobility graphene up to room temperature makes ballistic transport in nanodevices achievable. In particular, p-n-p transistor in the ballistic regime gives access to the Klein tunneling physics and allows the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Quentin Wilmart , Salim Berada , David Torrin , V. Hung Nguyen , Gwendal Fève , Jean-Marc Berroir , Philippe Dollfus , Bernard Plaçais

We investigate bilayer graphene transport in the presence of electron-hole puddles induced by long-range charged impurities in the environment. We explain the insulating behavior observed in the temperature dependent conductivity of low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-24 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Relativistic Brownian motion can be inexpensively demonstrated on a graphene chip. The interplay of stochastic and relativistic dynamics, governing the transport of charge carrier in graphene, induces noise-controlled effects such as (i) a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrey Pototsky , Fabio Marchesoni , Feodor V. Kusmartsev , Peter Hänggi , Sergey E. Savel'ev

In this paper, we propose a combined modeling of molecular mechanics (MM) and the tight-binding (TB) approach, which enables us to study the effect of factors such as external local forces, constraints, and vacancy defects on electronic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Mahnoosh Rostami , Isa Ahmadi , Farhad Khoeini

A model is presented for $pn$ junction formation near metal-semiconductor contacts in two-dimensional semiconducting systems such as graphene. Carrier type switching occurs in a region near the metal-semiconductor junction when energy band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 David A. Deen