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We studied the transport properties of electrons in graphene as they are scattered by a double barrier potential in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field. We computed the transmission coefficient and Goos-H\"anchen like shifts for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

Chiral tunneling through a harmonically driven potential barrier in graphene monolayer is considered in this work. Since the quasiparticles in this system are chiral in nature, tunneling is highly anisotropic, we determine the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-23 M. Ahsan Zeb , K. Sabeeh , M. Tahir

We report an electron transport study of lithographically fabricated graphene nanoribbons of various widths and lengths at different temperatures. At the charge neutrality point, a length-independent transport gap forms whose size is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Melinda Y. Han , Juliana C. Brant , Philip Kim

We adapt the semiclassical technique, as used in the context of instanton transitions in quantum field theory, to the description of tunneling transmissions at finite energies through potential barriers by complex quantum mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. F. Bonini , A. G. Cohen , C. Rebbi , V. A. Rubakov

Based on the nearest-neighbor tight-binding model, we present analytical description of low-energy electron transport through a symmetrical junction of two semimetal armchair ribbons. The results obtained demonstrate the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-27 O. Shevtsov , Yu. Klymenko

We developed the theory of elastic electron tunneling through a potential barrier driven by a strong high-frequency electromagnetic field. It is demonstrated that the driven barrier can be considered as a stationary two-barrier potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 M. V. Boev , V. M. Kovalev , O. V. Kibis

We explore the chiral transmission of electrons across graphene heterojunctions for electronic switching using gate geometry alone. A sequence of gates is used to collimate and orthogonalize the chiral transmission lobes across multiple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-20 Redwan N. Sajjad , Avik W. Ghosh

The paper discusses the chiral tunnelling of charge carriers through double barrier structure in twisted graphene bilayer. The theoretical analysis investigates the transmission probability for various system parameters under both symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 A. Bahlaoui , Y. Zahidi

Tunneling of quasiparticles between two nearly-aligned graphene sheets produces resonant current-voltage characteristics because of the quasi-exact conservation of in-plane momentum. We claim that, in this regime, vertical transport in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-29 Karina A. Guerrero-Becerra , Andrea Tomadin , Marco Polini

We give a concise account on the derivation of hybrid quantum-classical models for stationary electron transport in graphene, in presence of sharp potential steps of barriers. A quantum region (an asymptotically thin strip around the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 Luigi Barletti , Claudia Negulescu

The diffusion of electron-hole pairs, which are excited in an intrinsic graphene by the ultrashort focused laser pulse in mid-IR or visible spectral region, is described for the cases of peak-like or spread over the passive region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 F. T. Vasko , V. V. Mitin

We describe charging a quantum dot induced electrostatically within a semiconducting graphene nanoribbon by electrons or holes. The applied model is based on a tight-binding approach with the electron-electron interaction introduced by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 D. P. Żebrowski , B. Szafran

We study the behavior of charge carriers in graphene in inhomogeneous perpendicular magnetic fields. We consider two types of one-dimensional magnetic profiles, uniform in one direction: a sequence of N magnetic barriers, and a sequence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-27 L. Dell'Anna , A. De Martino

We study the transport properties of charge carriers in phosphorene with a mass term through double barriers. The solutions of the energy spectrum are obtained and the dependence of the eigenvalues on the barrier potentials and wave vectors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 Jilali Seffadi , Ilham Redouani , Youness Zahidi , Ahmed Jellal

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

A weakly coupled system of two crossed graphene nanoribbons exhibits direct tunneling due to the overlap of the wavefunctions of both ribbons. We apply the Bardeen transfer Hamiltonian formalism, using atomistic band structure calculations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Maarten L. Van de Put , William G. Vandenberghe , Bart Sorée , Wim Magnus , Massimo V. Fischetti

The tunneling current between two crossed graphene ribbons is described invoking the empirical pseudopotential approximation and the Bardeen transfer Hamiltonian method. Results indicate that the density of states is the most important…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-01 Maarten L. Van de Put , William G. Vandenberghe , Bart Sorée , Wim Magnus , Massimo Fischetti

We study resonant tunneling through a superconducting double barrier structure in graphene as a function of the system parameters. At each barrier, due to the proximity effect, an incident electron can either reflect as an electron or a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Arijit Kundu , Sumathi Rao , Arijit Saha

We experimentally investigate electrical transport properties of graphene, which is a two dimensional (2D) conductor with relativistic energy dispersion relation. By investigating single- and bi-layer graphene devices with different aspect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Miao , S. Wijeratne , U. Coskun , Y. Zhang , C. N. Lau

We present numerical studies of non-linear conduction in graphene nanoribbons when a bias potential is applied between the source and drain electrodes. We find that the conductance quantization plateaus show asymmetry between the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 S. Ihnatsenka , G. Kirczenow