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The list of textbook tunneling formulas is extended by deriving exact expressions for the transmission coefficient in graphene ribbons with armchair edges and the step-like and barrier-like profiles of site energies along the ribbon. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yuriy Klymenko , Lyuba Malysheva , Alexander Onipko

The effect of an inhomogeneous magnetic field which varies inversely as distance on the ground state energy level of graphene is studied. In this work, we analytically show that graphene under the influence of a magnetic field arising from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-07-05 M. R. Setare , D. Jahani

We study the effect of local modulation of charge density and carrier type in graphene field effect transistors using a double top gate geometry. The two top gates lead to the formation of multiple \emph{p-n} junctions. Electron transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-09 Ajay K. Bhat , Vibhor Singh , Sunil Patil , Mandar M. Deshmukh

Graphene is considered a promising candidate to replace conventional transparent conductors due to its low opacity, high carrier mobility and flexible structure. Multi-layer graphene or stacked single layer graphenes have been investigated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-07 Seunghyun Lee , Kyunghoon Lee , Chang-Hua Liu , Zhaohui Zhong

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

We use first-principle density functional theory (DFT) to study the transport properties of single and double barrier heterostructures realized by stacking multilayer h-BN or BC$_{2}$N, and graphene films between graphite leads. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 Samantha Bruzzone , Gianluca Fiori , Giuseppe Iannaccone

We discuss magnetic transport in the system of two adjacent hard-wall layers exposed to a homogeneous field perpendicular to the layer plane and coupled laterally through a strip-shaped window in the common boundary. We show that the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Pavel Exner

The electronic transmission and conductance of a gapped graphene superlattice were calculated by means of the transfer-matrix method. The system that we study consists of a sequence of electron-doped graphene as wells and hole-doped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Esmailpour , A. Esmailpour , Reza Asgari , E. Elahi , M. R. Rahimi Tabar

We investigate the conductance properties of a hybrid ferromagnet-semiconductor structure consisting of a confined two-dimensional electron gas and a transverse ferromagnetic strip on top. Within the framework of the Landauer-B\"uttiker…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michele Governale , Daniel Boese

The low temperature magnetoresistance of graphene functionalized by an array of magnetic Terbium Phthalocyanines molecules is found to exhibit a magnetic field-dependent 1/f noise, along with universal conductance fluctuations (UCFs)…

Measurement and theory of the two-terminal conductance of monolayer and bilayer graphene in the quantum Hall regime are compared. We examine features of conductance as a function of gate voltage that allow monolayer, bilayer, and gapped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-24 J. R. Williams , D. A. Abanin , L. DiCarlo , L. S. Levitov , C. M. Marcus

The structure and chemical composition are the key parameters influencing the properties of organic thin films deposited on inorganic substrates. Such films often display structures that substantially differ from the bulk, and the substrate…

Pristine graphene and graphene-based heterostructures exhibit exceptionally high electron mobility and conductance if their surface contains few electron-scattering impurities. Here, we reveal a universal connection between graphene's…

Motivated by recent experimental results for zero-line modes (ZLMs) in a bilayer graphene system [Nature Nanotechnol. 11, 1060 (2016)], we systematically studied the influence of a magnetic field on ZLMs and demonstrated the physical origin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Ke Wang , Tao Hou , Yafei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao

In this document we explore graphene, a two-dimensional material with remarkable properties. We center our discussion around its electronic characteristics and their applications. We begin by giving a simple electronic model which will then…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Anthony Gerges Geha , Yago aguado , Modou B. Nadiaye

Graphene is one of the stiffest known materials, with a Young's modulus of 1 TPa, making it an ideal candidate for use as a reinforcement in high-performance composites. However, being a one-atom thick crystalline material, graphene poses…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-13 L. Gong , I. A. Kinloch , R. J. Young , I. Riaz , R. Jalil , K. S. Novoselov

A new type of self-similar potential is used to study a multibarrier system made of graphene. Such potential is based on the traditional middle third Cantor set rule combined with a scaling of the barriers height. The resulting transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 D. S. Díaz-Guerrero , L. M. Gaggero-Sager , I. Rodríguez Vargas , G. G. Naumis

We consider a graphene sheet encapsulated in a two-dimensional metallic grating and a substrate ($\mathrm{Al_{2}O_{3}}$) and subjected to an external magnetic field (in Faraday configuration). The grating consists of a thin perfectly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Yu. V. Bludov , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. M. R. Peres

The recent discovery of two-dimensional magnetic insulators has generated a great deal of excitement over their potential for nanoscale manipulation of spin or magnetism. One intriguing use for these materials is to put them in contact with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Aron W. Cummings

We study the Goos-Hanchen like shifts for Dirac fermions in graphene scattered by double barrier structures. After obtaining the solution for the energy spectrum, we use the boundary conditions to explicitly determine the Goos-Hanchen like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ahmed Jellal , Ilham Redouani , Youness Zahidi , Hocine Bahlouli