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The complete theory of electrical conductivity of graphene at arbitrary temperature is developed with taken into account mass-gap parameter and chemical potential. Both the in-plane and out-of-plane conductivities of graphene are expressed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-25 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , V. M. Petrov

Narrow gaps are formed in suspended single to few layer graphene devices using a pulsed electrical breakdown technique. The conductance of the resulting devices can be programmed by the application of voltage pulses, with a voltage of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Hang Zhang , Wenzhong Bao , Zeng Zhao , Jhao-Wun Huang , Brian Standley , Gang Liu , Fenglin Wang , Philip Kratz , Lei Jing , Marc Bockrath , Chun Ning Lau

We develop an Over Barrier Model for computing charge exchange between ions and one-active-electron atoms at low impact energies. The main feature of the model is the treatment of the barrier crossing process by the electron within a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Sattin

The tight-binding model of bilayer graphene is used to find the gap between the conduction and valence bands, as a function of both the gate voltage and as the doping by donors or acceptors. The total Hartree energy is minimized and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. A. Falkovsky

A heterojunction tunneling field effect transistor based on armchair graphene nanoribbons is proposed and studied using ballistic quantum transport simulation based on 3D real space nonequilibrium Green's function formalism. By using low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-13 Fei Liu , Xiaoyan Liu , Jinfeng Kang , Yi Wang

Graphene two-dimensional nature combined with today lithography allows to achieve nanoelectronics devices smaller than the Dirac electrons wavelength. Here we show that in these graphene subwavelength nanodevices the electronic quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-08 Pierre Darancet , Valerio Olevano , Didier Mayou

The perfect transmission of charge carriers through potential barriers in graphene (Klein tunneling) is a direct consequence of the Dirac equation that governs the low-energy carrier dynamics. As a result, localized states do not exist in…

We obtain the solutions for the tunneling zone of a one-dimensional electrostatic potential in the relativistic (Dirac to Klein-Gordon) wave equation regime when the incoming wave packet exhibits the possibility of being almost totally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alex E. Bernardini

In all theoretical treatments of electron transport through single molecules between two metal electrodes, a clear distinction has to be made between a coherent transport regime with a strong coupling throughout the junction and a Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Robert Stadler , Jerome Cornil , Victor Geskin

The graphene is a native two-dimensional crystal material consisting of a single sheet of carbon atoms. In this unique one-atom-thick material, the electron transport is ballistic and is described by a quantum relativistic-like Dirac…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniela Dragoman , Mircea Dragoman

We study the low-energy quantum electrodynamics of electrons and holes, in a thin graphene wire. We develop an effective field theory (EFT) based on an expansion in p/p_T, where p_T is the typical momentum of electrons and holes in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 P. Faccioli , E. Lipparini

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 study the total transmission of quantum particles satisfying the Klein-Gordon equation through a potential barrier based on the classical wave propagation theory. We deduce an analytical expression for the wave impedance for Klein-Gordon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-24 Kihong Kim

Prior ultralow thermal conductivity materials are not suitable for thermoelectric applications due to the limited electronic transport in the materials. Here, we present a new class of ultralow thermal conductivity materials with…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-27 Bin Huang , Weidong Zheng , Yee Kan Koh

Observations of electron-hole asymmetry in transport through graphene devices at high magnetic field challenge prevalent models of the graphene quantum Hall effect. Here, we study this asymmetry both in conventional magnetotransport and in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Nicolas Moreau , Boris Brun , Sowmya Somanchi , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Christoph Stampfer , Benoît Hackens

The distribution function of transmitted charge through a double-barrier junction is studied at zero temperature and at small applied voltage. Both a semiclassical model, in which the transport is described by jump rates, and a quantum…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. J. M. de Jong

Electron transport through Si-C bound alkyl chains, sandwiched between n-Si and Hg, is characterized by two distinct types of barriers, each dominating in a different voltage range. At low voltage, current depends strongly on temperature…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Adi Salomon , Olga Girshevitz , David Cahen , Till Bocking , Calvin K. Chan , Fabrice Amy , Antoine Kahn

The shortcomings of mono-component systems, e.g., the gapless nature of graphene, the lack of air-stability in phosphorene, etc. have drawn great attention toward stacked materials expected to show interesting electronic and optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 Maryam Mahdavifar , Sima Shekarforoush , Farhad Khoeini

In this review article we discuss the recent progress in studying ballistic transport for charge carriers in graphene through highly inhomogenous magnetic field known as magnetic barrier in combination with gate voltage induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-12 Neetu Agrawal , Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

We consider hot carrier inelastic scattering due to electron--electron interactions in graphene, as functions of carrier energy and density. We calculate the imaginary part of the zero-temperature quasiparticle self-energy for doped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-03 E. H. Hwang , Ben Yu-Kuang Hu , S. Das Sarma