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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

Major efforts in recent years have been directed towards understanding molecular transport in polymeric membranes, in particular reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes. Transition-state theory is an increasingly common approach to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-11 Nathanael S. Schwindt , Mor Avidar , Razi Epsztein , Anthony P. Straub , Michael R. Shirts

The calculated electron mobility for a graphene nanoribbon as a function of applied electric field has been found to have a large threshold field for entering a nonlinear transport regime. This field depends on the lattice temperature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , O. Roslyak

We have performed a theoretical study of electronic transport in single and bilayer graphene based on the standard linear-response (Kubo) formalism and continuum-model descriptions of the graphene band structure. We are focusing especially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-25 J. Z. Bernad , U. Zuelicke , K. Ziegler

The performance of field effect transistors based on an single graphene ribbon with a constriction and a single back gate are studied with the help of atomistic models. It is shown how this scheme, unlike that of traditional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-09 F. Munoz-Rojas , J. Fernandez-Rossier , L. Brey , J. J. Palacios

Theoretical progress in graphene physics has largely relied on the application of a simple nearest-neighbor tight-binding model capable of predicting many of the electronic properties of this material. However, important features that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Z. M. Abd El-Fattah , M. A. Kher-Elden , I. Piquero-Zulaica , F. J. Garcia de Abajo , J. E. Ortega

The influence of a rectangular potential barrier on the quantum transport of fermions in silicene is explored. Specifically, analytical solutions are presented to derive transmission and reflection probabilities together with conductance.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Sanae Zriouel , Ahmed Jellal

We study charge transport in a graphene zigzag nanoribbon driven by an external time-periodic kicking potential. Using the exact solution of the time-dependent Dirac equation with a delta-kick potential acting in each period, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 D. Babajanov , D. U. Matrasulov , R. Egger

The characteristics of energy band spectrum of armchair graphene nanoribbons in presence of line defect are analyzed within a simple non-interacting tight-binding framework. In metallic nanoribbons an energy gap may or may not appear in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-19 Paramita Dutta , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

We study theoretically and numerically the conditions required for the appearance of a superradiance transition in graphene. The electron properties of graphene are described in the single $p_z$-orbital tight-binding approximation, in which…

The transmission across a graphene bilayer region is calculated for two different types of connections to monolayer leads. A transfer matrix algorithm based on a tight binding model is developed to obtain the ballistic transmission beyond…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Hadi Z. Olyaei , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

Charge transfer is a fundamental process that underlies a multitude of phenomena in chemistry and biology. Recent advances in observing and manipulating charge and heat transport at the nanoscale, and recently developed techniques for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Galen T. Craven , Abraham Nitzan

The conductance, the transmission and the reflection probabilities through rectangular potential barriers and pn-junctions are obtained for bilayer graphene taking into account the four bands of the energy spectrum. We have evaluated the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-28 B. Van Duppen , F. M. Peeters

We investigated ultrafast carrier dynamics in graphene with near-infrared transient absorption measurement after intense half-cycle terahertz pulse excitation. The terahertz electric field efficiently drives the carriers, inducing large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-08 Shuntaro Tani , François Blanchard , Koichiro Tanaka

We develop an Effective Medium Theory to study the electrical transport properties of disordered graphene. The theory includes non-linear screening and exchange-correlation effects allowing us to consider experimentally relevant strengths…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-20 Enrico Rossi , S. Adam , S. Das Sarma

Electron transmission through different gated and gapped graphene superlattices (GSLs) is studied. Linear, Gaussian, Lorentzian and P\"oschl-Teller superlattice potential profiles have been assessed. A relativistic description of electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-11 A. Sánchez-Arellano , M. Madrigal-Melchor , I. Rodríguez-Vargas

In this paper we revisit the one-dimensional tunnelling problem. We consider different approximations for the transmission through the Coulomb barrier in heavy ion collisions at near-barrier energies. First, we discuss approximations of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 A. J. Toubiana , L. F. Canto , M. S. Hussein

A novel nanoelectronic device is constructed by graphyne that is robustly connected between graphene electrodes, where graphyne is composed of hexagonal carbon rings and carbon chains. Owing to similarities between the bond lengths and unit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-17 Young I. Jhon , Myung S. Jhon

The last few years have seen an explosion of interest in hydrodynamic effects in interacting electron systems in ultra-pure materials. One such material, graphene, is not only an excellent platform for the experimental realization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-21 Boris N. Narozhny

We have experimentally investigated quantum interference corrections to the conductivity of graphene nanoribbons at temperatures down to 20 mK studying both weak localization (WL) and universal conductance fluctuations (UCF). Since in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 S. Minke , J. Bundesmann , D. Weiss , J. Eroms