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Graphene is an attractive material for microelectronics applications, given such favourable electrical characteristics as high mobility, high operating frequency, and good stability. If graphene is to be implemented in electronic devices on…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-14 B. C. Worley , S. Kim , T. J. Ha , S. Park , R. Haws , P. Rossky , D. Akinwande , A. Dodabalapur

The interaction between two different materials can present novel phenomena that are quite different from the physical properties observed when each material stands alone. Strong electronic correlations, such as magnetism and…

Using high quality graphene pnp junctions, we observe prominent conductance fluctuations on transitions between quantum Hall (QH) plateaus as the top gate voltage Vtg is varied. In the Vtg-B plane, the fluctuations form crisscrossing lines…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jairo Velasco , Gang Liu , Lei Jing , Philip Kratz , Wenzhong Bao , Marc Bockrath , Chun Ning Lau

In this article we review the quantum Hall physics of graphene based two-dimensional electron systems, with a special focus on recent experimental and theoretical developments. We explain why graphene and bilayer graphene can be viewed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yafis Barlas , Kun Yang , A. H. MacDonald

Materials subjected to a magnetic field exhibit the Hall effect, a phenomenon studied and understood in fine detail. Here we report a qualitative breach of this classical behavior in electron systems with high viscosity. The viscous fluid…

Capacitance measurements provide a powerful means of probing the density of states. The technique has proved particularly successful in studying 2D electron systems, revealing a number of interesting many-body effects. Here, we use…

An efficient computational methodology is used to explore charge transport properties in chemically-modified (and randomly disordered) graphene-based materials. The Hamiltonians of various complex forms of graphene are constructed using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-16 Nicolas Leconte , Aurélien Lherbier , François Varchon , Pablo Ordejon , Stephan Roche , Jean-Christophe Charlier

The effects of the electron-electron interactions in a graphene layer are investigated. It is shown that short range couplings are irrelevant, and scale towards zero at low energies, due to the vanishing of density of states at the Fermi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Gonzalez , F. Guinea , M. A. H. Vozmediano

The demand for compact, high-speed and energy-saving circuitry urges higher efficiency of spintronic devices that can offer a viable alternative for the current electronics. The route towards this goal suggests implementing two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Talieh S. Ghiasi , Alexey A. Kaverzin , Avalon H. Dismukes , Dennis K. de Wal , Xavier Roy , Bart J. van Wees

Electrons in graphene, behaving as massless relativistic Dirac particles, provide a new perspective on the relation between condensed matter and high-energy physics. We discuss atomic collapse, a novel state of superheavy atoms stripped of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-30 Andrei Shytov , Mark Rudner , Nan Gu , Mikhail Katsnelson , Leonid Levitov

Spin dependent electron transport measurements on graphene are of high importance to explore possible spintronic applications. Up to date all spin transport experiments on graphene were done in a semi-classical regime, disregarding quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 M. H. D. Guimaraes , P. J. Zomer , I. J. Vera-Marun , B. J. van Wees

We perform electrical transport measurements in graphene with several sample geometries. In particular, we design ``invasive'' probes crossing the whole graphene sheet as well as ``external'' probes connected through graphene side arms. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-07 B. Huard , N. Stander , J. A. Sulpizio , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

We previously show [JETP Letters, {\bf 114}, 763 (2021)] that a graphene sample placed on a ferromagnetic substrate demonstrates a cooperative magnetoelectronic instability. The instability induces a gap in the electronic spectrum and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 D. N. Dresviankin , A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov

Graphene, the first truly two-dimensional (one atom thin) material, possesses strongly nonlinear electrodynamic and optical properties. At low (microwave, terahertz) frequencies this results from the unique electronic property of graphene -…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Sergey Mikhailov

Localized magnetic moments have been predicted to develop in graphene samples with vacancies or adsorbates. The interplay between such magnetic impurities and graphene's Dirac quasiparticles leads to remarkable many-body phenomena, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-20 David A. Ruiz-Tijerina , Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva

Investigations of the magnetic properties of graphenes prepared by different methods reveal that dominant ferromagnetic interactions coexist along with antiferromagnetic interactions in all the samples. Thus, all the graphene samples…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-04-20 H. S. S. Ramakrishna Matte , K. S. Subrahmanyam , C. N. R. Rao

We show that electron states in disordered graphene, with an onsite potential that induces inter-valley scattering, are localised for all energies at disorder as small as 1/6 of the band width of clean graphene. We clarify that, in order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-08 C. González-Santander , F. Domínguez-Adame , M. Hilke , R. A. Römer

The influence of electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations in the presence of the perfectly conducting plate on electrons is studied with an interference experiment. The evolution of the reduced density matrix of the electron is derived by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Da-Shin Lee

Recent advances in large-scale synthesis of graphene and other 2D materials have underscored the importance of local defects such as dislocations and grain boundaries (GBs), and especially their tendency to alter the electronic properties…

One of the salient features of graphene is the very high carrier mobility that implies tremendous potential for use in electronic devices. Unfortunately, transport measurements find the expected high mobility only in freely suspended…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Søren Ulstrup , Marco Bianchi , Richard Hatch , Dandan Guan , Alessandro Baraldi , Dario Alfè , Liv Hornekær , Philip Hofmann