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Motivated by the unique dispersions close to the two dimensional band crossing in a topologically charged nodal surface semimetal (NSSM) spectrum, we perform theoretical analysis of quantum tunnelling through a junction consisting of such…

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Understanding the nature of superconductivity in magic-angle graphene remains challenging. A key difficulty lies in discerning the different energy scales in this strongly interacting system, particularly the superconducting gap. Here, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-21 Jeong Min Park , Shuwen Sun , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

The electronic density of states of graphene is equivalent to that of relativistic electrons. In the absence of disorder or external doping the Fermi energy lies at the Dirac point where the density of states vanishes. Although transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Martin , N. Akerman , G. Ulbricht , T. Lohmann , J. H. Smet , K. von Klitzing , A. Yacoby

We investigate quantum tunneling of charge carriers through a periodic superlattice in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with rectangular potential barriers, including the presence of a defect, using a low-energy continuum model. Transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Ayoub Bahlaoui , Youness Zahidi , Ahmed Naddami

Quantitative description of charge transport across tunneling and break-junction devices with novel superconductors encounters some problems not present, or not as severe for traditional superconducting materials. In this work, we explain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-11 E. Zhitlukhina , I. Devyatov , O. Egorov , M. Belogolovskii , P. Seidel

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

We have theoretically investigated the properties of electronic transport in graphene heterostructures, which are consisted of two different graphene superlattices with one-dimensional periodic potentials. It is found that such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-25 Li-Gang Wang , Yuen-Chi Tse , Shi-Yao Zhu

Local electronic structures of nanometer-sized patches of epitaxial graphene and its interface layer with SiC(0001) have been studied by atomically resolved scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. Localized states belonging to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 J. Cervenka , K. van de Ruit , C. F. J. Flipse

We propose a phenomenological description of electronic transport through a normal metal/superconductor interface of arbitrary transparency, which accounts for the presence of electron-electron interaction in the normal metal. The effect of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 H. T. Man , T. M. Klapwijk , A. F. Morpurgo

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…

Dirac-electronic tunneling and nonlinear transport properties with both finite and zero energy bandgap are investigated for graphene with a tilted potential barrier under a bias. For validation, results from a finite-difference based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Farhana Anwar , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Ashwani Sharma

We study the conduction of a {\sl N~-~Sm~-~S} junction, where {\sl Sm} is a strongly disordered semiconductor. The differential conductance $dI/dV$ of this {\sl N~-~Sm~-~S} structure is predicted to have a sharp peak at $V=0$. Unlike the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 I. L. Aleiner , Penny Clarke , L. I. Glazman

The conductance of ballistic graphene at the neutrality point is due to coherent electron tunneling between the leads, the so called pseudodiffusive regime. The conductance scales as function of the sample dimensions in the same way as in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson

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

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

To address the robustness of the transport gap induced by locally strained regions in graphene nanostructures, the effect of disorder and smoothness of the interface region is investigated within the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 D. A. Bahamon , Vitor M. Pereira

We theoretically discuss electronic transport via Majorana states in magnetic topological insulator-superconductor junctions with an asymmetric split of the applied bias voltage. We study normal-superconductor-normal (NSN) junctions made of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Daniele Di Miceli , Eduárd Zsurka , Julian Legendre , Kristof Moors , Thomas Schmidt , Llorenç Serra

Graphene has emerged as an electronic material that is promising for device applications and for studying two-dimensional electron gases with relativistic dispersion near two Dirac points. Nonetheless, deviations from Dirac-like…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-07-23 M. L. Teague , A. P. Lai , J. Velasco , C. R. Hughes , A. D. Beyer , M. W. Bockrath , C. N. Lau , N. -C. Yeh

We investigate a normal metal -- superconductor (point) contact in the limit where the number of conducting channels in the metallic wire is reduced to few channels. As the effective Fermi energy drops below the gap energy, a conducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gordey B. Lesovik , Gianni Blatter

The conductance through single-layer graphene (SLG) and AA/AB-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) junctions is obtained by taking into account band gap and bias voltage terms. First, we consider gapped SLG, while in between, they are connected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Nadia Benlakhouy , Ahmed Jellal , El Houssine Atmani