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High-fidelity detection of charge transitions in quantum dots (QDs) is a key ingredient in solid state quantum computation. We demonstrate high-bandwidth radio-frequency charge detection in bilayer graphene quantum dots (QDs) using a…

We study single-electron charging events in an Al/InAs nanowire hybrid system with deliberately introduced gapless regions. The occupancy of a Coulomb island is detected using a nearby radio-frequency quantum dot as a charge sensor. We…

Graphene is an ideal material for hot-electron bolometers, due to its low heat capacity and weak electron-phonon coupling. Nanostructuring graphene with quantum dot constrictions yields detectors with extraordinarily high intrinsic…

Graphene nanoribbons display an imperfectly understood transport gap. We measure transport through nanoribbon devices of several lengths. In nanoribbons of length greater than or equal to 250 nm we observe transport through multiple quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-02 Kathryn Todd , Hung-Tao Chou , Sami Amasha , David Goldhaber-Gordon

We report fast, simultaneous charge sensing and transport measurements of gate-defined carbon nanotube quantum dots. Aluminum radio frequency single electron transistors (rf-SETs) capacitively coupled to the nanotube dot provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. J. Biercuk , D. J. Reilly , T. M. Buehler , V. C. Chan , J. M. Chow , R. G. Clark , C. M. Marcus

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

Stimulated by recent advances in isolating graphene, we discovered that quantum dot can be trapped in Z-shaped graphene nanoribbon junciton. The topological structure of the junction can confine electronic states completely. By varying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Z. F. Wang , Huaixiu Zheng , Q. W. Shi , Jie Chen , Qunxiang Li , J. G. Hou

The interaction between doped graphene nanoislands connected by narrow junctions constitutes an ideal testbed to probe quantum effects in plasmonic systems. Here, the interaction between graphene plasmons in neighboring nanoislands is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-11 Sukosin Thongrattanasiri , Alejandro Manjavacas , Peter Nordlander , F. Javier Garcia de Abajo

Graphene nanoislands (GNIs) are one of the promising building blocks for quantum devices owing to their unique potential. However, direct electrical measurements of GNIs have been challenging due to the requirement of metal catalysts in…

We present electron transport measurements on lithographically defined and etched graphene nanoconstrictions with different aspect ratios including different lengths (L) and widths (W). A roughly length-independent disorder induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-13 B. Terrés , J. Dauber , C. Volk , S. Trellenkamp , U. Wichmann , C. Stampfer

We propose that recent transport experiments revealing the existence of an energy gap in graphene nanoribbons may be understood in terms of Coulomb blockade. Electron interactions play a decisive role at the quantum dots which form due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Sols , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

We report electronic transport experiments on a graphene single electron transistor. The device consists of a graphene island connected to source and drain electrodes via two narrow graphene constrictions. It is electrostatically tunable by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Stampfer , E. Schurtenberger , F. Molitor , J. Guettinger , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

We present an electronic transport experiment in graphene where both classical and quantum mechanical charge detector back-action on a quantum dot are investigated. The device consists of two stacked graphene quantum dots separated by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-01 Dominik Bischoff , Marius Eich , Oded Zilberberg , Clemens Rössler , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin

Using scanning tunneling microscopy, we have imaged local charge density fluctuations in monolayer graphene. By placing a small gold nanoparticle on the end of the STM tip, a charge sensor is created. By raster scanning the tip over the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 A. Deshpande , W. Bao , H. Zhang , Z. Zhao , C. N. Lau , B. J. LeRoy

The response of Dirac fermions to a Coulomb potential is predicted to differ significantly from the behavior of non-relativistic electrons seen in traditional atomic and impurity systems. Surprisingly, many key theoretical predictions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-02 Yang Wang , Victor W. Brar , Andrey V. Shytov , Qiong Wu , William Regan , Hsin-Zon Tsai , Alex Zettl , Leonid S. Levitov , Michael F. Crommie

Graphene quantum dots (QDs) are intensively studied as platforms for the next generation of quantum electronic devices. Fine tuning of the transport properties in monolayer graphene QDs, in particular with respect to the independent…

The detection of the quantum dot charge state using a quantum point contact charge detector has opened a new exciting route for the investigation of quantum dot devices in recent years. In particular, time-resolved charge detection allowed…

Distribution of charge induced by a gate voltage in a graphene strip is investigated. We calculate analytically the charge profile and demonstrate a strong(macroscopic) charge accumulation along the boundaries of a micrometers-wide strip.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-04 P. G. Silvestrov , K. B. Efetov

Plasmons produce large confinement and enhancement of light that enable applications as varied as cancer therapy and catalysis. Adding to these appealing properties, graphene has emerged as a robust, electrically tunable material exhibiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-20 Alejandro Manjavacas , Sukosin Thongrattanasiri , F. Javier Garcia de Abajo

We use time-resolved charge detection techniques to investigate single-electron tunneling in semiconductor quantum dots. The ability to detect individual charges in real-time makes it possible to count electrons one-by-one as they pass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-29 S. Gustavsson , R. Leturcq , M. Studer , I. Shorubalko , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , D. C. Driscoll , A. C. Gossard