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In gapped bilayer graphene, similarly to conventional semiconductors, Coulomb impurities (such as nitrogen donors) may determine the activation energy of its conductivity and provide low temperature hopping conductivity. However, in spite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , D. O. Oriekhov , B. I. Shklovskii

Growth of graphene on monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides presents opening on band gap and giant spin-orbit coupling which paves the way to achieve a useful hybrid structure for electronics and spintronics applications. Increase of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 S. F. Ebadzadeh , H. Goudarzi , M. Khezerlou

A peculiarity of the single-electron transistor effect makes it possible to observe this effect even in structures lacking a gate electrode altogether. The proposed method can be useful for experimental study of charging effects in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. V. Vyshenski

We present electrical transport measurements of a van-der-Waals heterostructure consisting of a graphene nanoribbon separated by a thin boron nitride layer from a micron-sized graphene sheet. The interplay between the two layers is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-29 D. Bischoff , M. Eich , A. Varlet , P. Simonet , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

The metal-graphene contact resistance is a technological bottleneck for the realization of viable graphene based electronics. We report a useful model to find the gate tunable components of this resistance determined by the sequential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-03 Ferney A. Chaves , David Jiménez , Abhay A. Sagade , Wonjae Kim , Juha Riikonen , Harri Lipsanen , Daniel Neumaier

Electrostatic confinement of charge carriers in bilayer graphene provides a unique platform for carbon-based spin, charge or exchange qubits. By exploiting the possibility to induce a band gap with electrostatic gating, we form a versatile…

We have measured a graphene double quantum dot device with multiple electrostatic gates that are used to enhance control to investigate it. At low temperatures the transport measurements reveal honeycomb charge stability diagrams which can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 L. J. Wang , H. O. Li , Z. Su , T. Tu , G. Cao , C. Zhou , X. J. Hao , G. C. Guo , G. P. Guo

We observe a series of sharp resonant features in the differential conductance of graphene-hexagonal boron nitride-graphene tunnel transistors over a wide range of bias voltages between $\sim$10 and 200 mV. We attribute them to electron…

The honeycomb lattice of graphene is a unique two-dimensional (2D) system where the quantum mechanics of electrons is equivalent to that of relativistic Dirac fermions. Novel nanometer-scale behavior in this material, including electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-29 Yuanbo Zhang , Victor W. Brar , Feng Wang , Caglar Girit , Yossi Yayon , Melissa Panlasigui , Alex Zettl , Michael F. Crommie

We theoretically investigate the spectrum of a single electron double quantum dot, defined by top gates in a graphene with a substrate induced gap. We examine the effects of electric and magnetic fields on the spectrum of localized states,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 Martin Raith , Christian Ertler , Peter Stano , Michael Wimmer , Jaroslav Fabian

Controlling the energy spectrum of quantum-coherent superconducting circuits, i.e. the energies of excited states, the circuit anharmonicity and the states' charge dispersion, is essential for designing performant qubits. This control is…

We demonstrate that excited states in single-layer graphene quantum dots can be detected via direct transport experiments. Coulomb diamond measurements show distinct features of sequential tunneling through an excited state. Moreover, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Schnez , F. Molitor , C. Stampfer , J. Guettinger , I. Shorubalko , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

The absence of a band-gap in graphene limits the gate modulation of its electron conductivity, both in regular graphene as well as in PN junctions, where electrostatic barriers prove transparent to Klein tunneling. We demonstrate a novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Redwan Sajjad , Avik Ghosh

In this letter we report single-hole tunneling through a quantum dot in a two-dimensional hole gas, situated in a narrow-channel field-effect transistor in intrinsic silicon. Two layers of aluminum gate electrodes are defined on Si/SiO$_2$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-16 P. C. Spruijtenburg , J. Ridderbos , F. Mueller , A. W. Leenstra , M. Brauns , A. A. I. Aarnink , W. G. van der Wiel , F. A. Zwanenburg

Recent developments in the technology of van der Waals heterostructures made from two-dimensional atomic crystals have already led to the observation of new physical phenomena, such as the metal-insulator transition and Coulomb drag, and to…

Usually, graphene is used in its horizontal directions to design novel concept devices. Here, we report a single electron tunneling diode based on quantum tunneling through a vertical graphene two-barrier junction. The junction is formed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Rui Xu , Ke-Ke Bai , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

We demonstrate a flip-chip device for performing low-temperature acoustoelectric measurements on exfoliated two-dimensional materials. With this device, we study gate-tunable acoustoelectric transport in an exfoliated monolayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-22 J. R. Lane , L. Zhang , M. A. Khasawneh , B. N. Zhou , E. A. Henriksen , J. Pollanen

We have developed an etching process to fabricate a quantum dot and a nearby single electron transistor as a charge detector in a single layer graphene. The high charge sensitivity of the detector is used to probe Coulomb diamonds as well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ling-Jun Wang , Gang Cao , Tao Tu , Hai-Ou Li , Cheng Zhou , Xiao-Jie Hao , Zhan Su , Guang-Can Guo , Guo-Ping Guo , Hong-Wen Jiang

Low temperature electron transport measurements of single electron transistors fabricated in advanced CMOS technology with polysilicon gates not only exhibit clear Coulomb blockade behavior but also show a large number of additional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 Dharmraj Kotekar-Patil , Stefan Jauerneck , David Wharam , Dieter Kern , Xavier Jehl , Romain Wacquez , M. Sanquer

In this article, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a triple-mode single-transistor graphene amplifier utilizing a three-terminal back-gated single-layer graphene transistor. The ambipolar nature of electronic transport in graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-07 Xuebei Yang , Guanxiong Liu , Alexander A Balandin , Kartik Mohanram