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Ferroelectric tunneling junctions (FTJ) are considered to be the intrinsically most energy efficient memristors. In this work, specific electrical features of ferroelectric hafnium-zirconium oxide based FTJ devices are investigated.…

Tunneling field-effect transistors (FETs) have been intensely explored recently due to its potential to address power concerns in nanoelectronics. The recently discovered graphene nanoribbon (GNR) is ideal for tunneling FETs due to its…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-30 Pei Zhao , Jyotsna Chauhan , Jing Guo

Electron tunneling is associated with light emission. In order to elucidate its generating mechanism, we provide a novel experimental ansatz that employs fixed-distance epitaxial graphene as metallic electrodes. In contrast to previous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Christian Ott , Stephan Götzinger , Heiko B. Weber

We report a theoretical study suggesting a novel type of electronic switching effect, driven by the geometrical reconstruction of nanoscale graphene-based junctions. We considered junction struc- tures which have alternative metastable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 T. Kawai , M. Poetschke , Y. Miyamoto , C. G. Rocha , S. Roche , G. Cuniberti

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…

We study a two-terminal graphene Josephson junction with contacts shaped to form a narrow constriction, less than 100nm in length. The contacts are made from type II superconducting contacts and able to withstand magnetic fields high enough…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 M. T. Wei , A. W. Draelos , A. Seredinski , C. T. Ke , H. Li , Y. Mehta , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. Yamamoto , S. Tarucha , G. Finkelstein , F. Amet , I. V. Borzenets

Metal/graphene interfaces generated by electrode deposition induce barriers or potential modulations influencing the electronic transport properties of graphene based devices. However, their impact on the local mechanical properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-21 Zoltán Osváth , François Lefloch , Vincent Bouchiat , Claude Chapelier

We present ab-initio transport calculations for molecular junctions that include graphene as a protecting layer between a single molecule and gold electrodes. This vertical setup has recently gained significant interest in experiment for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Falco Hüser , Gemma C. Solomon

Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have emerged as promising candidates for nanoelectronic applications due to their widely tunable energy band gaps resulting from lateral quantum confinement and edge effects. Here we report on…

We have developed a device fabrication process to pattern graphene into nanostructures of arbitrary shape and control their electronic properties using local electrostatic gates. Electronic transport measurements have been used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-14 Barbaros Özyilmaz , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Dmitri Efetov , Dmitri A. Abanin , Leonid S. Levitov , Philip Kim

Metal atoms on graphene, when ionized, can act as a point charge impurity to probe a charge response of graphene with the Dirac cone band structure. To understand the microscopic physics of the metal-atom-induced charge and spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-16 Jae-Hyeon Parq , Jaejun Yu , Young-Kyun Kwon , Gunn Kim

The interplay between the electron transport in metal/ferroelectric/metal junctions with ultrathin ferroelectric barriers and the polarization state of a barrier is investigated. Using a model which takes into account screening of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Ye. Zhuravlev , R. F. Sabirianov , S. S. Jaswal , E. Y. Tsymbal

We study electron transport in a strained graphene sheet subjected to a sequence of $N$ electrostatic and magnetic barriers. Employing a modified and improved transfer-matrix framework, we examine how the transmission and reflection…

With nonequilibrium Green's function approach combined with density functional theory, we perform an ab initio calculation to investigate transport properties of graphene nanoribbon junctions self-consistently. Tight-binding approximation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Yin , Y. Y. Liang , F. Jiang , H. Chen , P. Wang , R. Note , H. Mizuseki , Y. Kawazoe

We investigate the topological phase transitions in graphene under the modulation of circularly polarized light, by analyzing the changes of edge states and its topological structures. A full phase diagram, with up to ten different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Yi-Xiang Wang , Fuxiang Li

We explore the chiral transmission of electrons across graphene heterojunctions for electronic switching using gate geometry alone. A sequence of gates is used to collimate and orthogonalize the chiral transmission lobes across multiple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-20 Redwan N. Sajjad , Avik W. Ghosh

Graphene electrodes provide a suitable alternative to metal contacts in molecular conduction nanojunctions. Here, we propose to use graphene electrodes as a platform for effective photon assisted tunneling through molecular conduction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Boris Fainberg

We report on theoretical studies of transport through graphene quantum dots weakly coupled to external ferromagnetic leads. The calculations are performed by exact diagonalization of a tight-binding Hamiltonian with finite Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 I. Weymann , J. Barnas , S. Krompiewski

We present an investigation of heat transport in gapless graphene-based Ferromagnetic /singlet Superconductor/Ferromagnetic (FG$\mid$SG$\mid$FG) junctions. We find that unlike uniform increase of thermal conductance vs temperature, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-01 Morteza Salehi , Mohammad Alidoust , Yousef Rahnavard , Gholamreza Rashedi

The transmission of the electron across the single normal metal-graphene (NG) and normal-metal-graphene-normal-metal (NGN) junctions has been investigated. For the single NG junction, the profile of the maximum transmission which has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Weixian Yan , Min Guo