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We demonstrate a tunneling and rectification behavior in bilayer graphene. A stepped dielectric top gate creates a spatially modulated electric field, which opens the band gap in the graphene and produces an insulating region at the p-n…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-19 Hisao Miyazaki , Michael Lee , Song-Lin Li , Hidefumi Hiura , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi , Akinobu Kanda

Neuromorphic devices have gained significant attention as potential building blocks for the next generation of computing technologies owing to their ability to emulate the functionalities of biological nervous systems. The essential…

Using the coupled-mode theory in guided-wave optics and electronics, we explore a directional coupling structure composed of two parallel waveguides electrostatically induced by the split-gate technique in bulk graphene. Our results show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-29 L. Zhao , Wenhui Duan

The peculiar nature of electron scattering in graphene is among many exciting theoretical predictions for the physical properties of this material. To investigate electron scattering properties in a graphene plane, we have created a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 B. Huard , J. A. Sulpizio , N. Stander , K. Todd , B. Yang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

We present a new mechanism for dissipationless persistent charge current. Two dimensional topological insulators hold dissipationless spin currents in their edges so that, for a given spin orientation, a net charge current flows which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. Soriano , J. Fernández-Rossier

Electrons in graphene follow unconventional trajectories at PN junctions, driven by their pseudospintronic degree of freedom. Significant is the prominent angular dependence of transmission, capturing the chiral nature of the electrons and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Redwan N. Sajjad , S. Sutar , J. U. Lee , Avik W. Ghosh

One of the unique features of graphene is that the Fermi wavelength of its charge carriers can be tuned electrostatically over a wide range. This allows in principle to tune the transparency of a pn-junction electrostatically, as this…

Graphene is an attractive electrode material to contact nanostructures down to the molecular scale since it can be gated electrostatically. Gating can be used to control the doping and the energy level alignment in the nanojunction, thereby…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Nick R. Papior , Tue Gunst , Daniele Stradi , Mads Brandbyge

The perfect transmission of charge carriers through potential barriers in graphene (Klein tunneling) is a direct consequence of the Dirac equation that governs the low-energy carrier dynamics. As a result, localized states do not exist in…

Based on the time-dependent nonequilibrium Green's function method we investigate theoretically the time and spin-dependent transport through a graphene layer upon the application of a static bias voltage to the electrodes and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-23 Kai-He Ding , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Jamal Berakdar

We investigate pure spin pumping in graphene by imposing a ferromagnet (F) with rotating magnetization on top of it. Using the generalized scattering approach for adiabatic spin pumping, we obtain the spin current pumped through magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Mojtaba A. Rahimi , Ali G. Moghaddam

To construct Lagrangian based on plate theory and tight-binding model, deflection-field coupling to Dirac fermions in graphene can be investigated. As have been known, deflection-induced strain may cause an effect on the motion of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-18 Bumned Soodchomshom

We investigate the electrical switching of charge and spin transport in a topological insulator nanoconstriction in a four terminal device. The switch of the edge channels is caused by the coupling between edge states which overlap in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-12 F. Romeo , R. Citro , D. Ferraro , M. Sassetti

We address the tunneling current in a graphene-hBN-graphene heterostructure as function of the twisting between the crystals. The twisting induces a modulation of the hopping amplitude between the graphene layers, that provides the extra…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Luis Brey

We propose a novel spin filter based on a graphene nanoring fabricated above a ferromagnetic strip. The exchange interaction between the magnetic moments of the ions in the ferromagnet and the electron spin splits the electronic states, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Javier Munárriz , Francisco Domínguez-Adame , Pedro A. Orellana , Andrey V. Malyshev

We have developed a process to fabricate suspended graphene devices with local bottom gates, and tested it by realizing electrostatically controlled pn junctions on a suspended graphene mono-layer nearly 2 micrometers long. Measurements as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-18 Anya L. Grushina , Dong-Keun Ki , Alberto F. Morpurgo

We have fabricated graphene devices with a top gate separated from the graphene layer by an air gap--a design which does not decrease the mobility of charge carriers under the gate. This gate is used to realise p-n-p structures where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-10 R. V. Gorbachev , A. S. Mayorov , A. K. Savchenko , D. W. Horsell , F. Guinea

In this letter, we demonstrate a non-volatile memory device in a graphene FET structure using ferroelectric gating. The binary information, i.e. "1" and "0", is represented by the high and low resistance states of the graphene working…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-23 Yi Zheng , Guang-Xin Ni , Chee-Tat Toh , Ming-Gang Zeng , Shu-Ting Chen , Kui Yao , Barbaros Ozyilmaz

We have measured a graphene double quantum dot device with multiple electrostatic gates that are used to enhance control to investigate it. At low temperatures the transport measurements reveal honeycomb charge stability diagrams which can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 L. J. Wang , H. O. Li , Z. Su , T. Tu , G. Cao , C. Zhou , X. J. Hao , G. C. Guo , G. P. Guo

We measured the conductance fluctuation of bi- and trilayer graphene devices prepared on mechanical exfoliated graphene by an all-dry, lithography-free process using an ultrathin quartz filament as a shadow mask. Reproducible fluctuations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Neal E. Staley , Conor Puls , Ying Liu