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Particular strain geometry in graphene could leads to a uniform pseudo-magnetic field of order 10T and might open up interesting applications in graphene nano-electronics. Through quantum transport calculations of realistic strained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Tony Low , F. Guinea

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

We investigate the electromechanical response of doubly clamped graphene nanoribbons to a transverse gate voltage. An analytical model is developed to predict the field-induced deformation of graphene nanoribbons as a function of field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Zhao Wang , Laetitia Philippe , Jamil Elias

The influence of magnetic impurities on the transport properties of graphene is investigated in the regime of strong applied electric fields. As a result of electron-hole pair creation, the response becomes nonlinear and dependent on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 Arnaud Demion , Alberto D. Verga

A tight-binding model with randomly fluctuating atomic positions is studied to discuss the effect of strong disorder in graphene. We employ a strong-disorder expansion for the transport quantities and find a diffusive behavior, where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-22 K. Ziegler

The creation of pseudo-magnetic fields in strained graphene has emerged as a promising route to allow observing intriguing physical phenomena that would be unattainable with laboratory superconducting magnets. Scanning tunneling…

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

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-04 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

We show that the pseudospin being an additional degree of freedom for carriers in graphene can be efficiently controlled by means of the electron-electron interactions which, in turn, can be manipulated by changing the substrate. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-05 Maxim Trushin , John Schliemann

We study the effect of disordered ripples on the conductivity of monolayer graphene flakes. We calculate the relaxation times and the Boltzmann conductivities associated with two mechanisms. First, we study the conductivity correction due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Rhonald Burgos , Jesus Warnes , Leandro R. F. Lima , Caio Lewenkopf

The main goal of our study was investigation of the influence of the deformations (sufficiently large for the establishing the non-zero gap) on electrotransport properties of impure graphene. To achieve this purpose, we implemented the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Igor Yu. Sagalianov , Yuriy I. Prylutskyy , Taras M. Radchenko , Valentyn A. Tatarenko

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

Double-gated graphene devices provide an important platform for understanding electrical and optical properties of graphene. Here we present transport measurements of single layer, bilayer and trilayer graphene devices with suspended top…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Velasco , Y. Lee , L. Jing , G. Liu , W. Bao , C. N. Lau

At low values of external doping graphene displays a wealth of unconventional transport properties. Perhaps most strikingly, it supports a robust 'metallic' regime, with universal conductance of the order of the conductance quantum. We here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Altland

We derive the local density of states from itinerant and boundary states around transport barriers and edges in graphene and show that the itinerant states lead to mesoscale undulations that could be used to probe their scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-17 Daniel Gunlycke , Carter T. White

We propose the theory of transport in a gate-tunable graphene p-n junction, in which the gradient of the carrier density is controlled by the gate voltage. Depending on this gradient and on the density of charged impurities, the junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-21 M. M. Fogler , L. I. Glazman , D. S. Novikov , B. I. Shklovskii

The effect of strain in graphene is usually modeled by a pseudo-magnetic vector potential which is, however, derived in the limit of small strain. In realistic cases deviations are expected in view of graphene's very high strain tolerance,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-27 D. Moldovan , M. Ramezani Masir , F. M. Peeters

We study the effect of a sharply localized magnetic field on the electron transport in a strip (ribbon) of graphene sheet, which allows to give results for the transmission and reflection probability through magnetic barriers. The magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Abdulaziz D. Alhaidari , Hocine Bahlouli , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

The strain induced pseudo-magnetic field in supported graphene deposited on top of a nanostructured substrate is investigated by using atomistic simulations. Step, elongated trench, one dimensional barrier, spherical bubbles, Gaussian bump…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Neek-Amal , F. M. Peeters

We theoretically consider, comparing with the existing experimental literature, the electrical conductivity of gated monolayer graphene as a function of carrier density, temperature, and disorder in order to assess the prospects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-28 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang

We demonstrate theoretically that most of the observed transport properties of graphene sheets at zero magnetic field can be explained by scattering from charged impurities. We find that, contrary to common perception, these properties are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-14 Shaffique Adam , E. H. Hwang , Victor Galitski , S. Das Sarma