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We study the electronic transmission through a graphene bilayer in the presence of an applied bias between layers. We consider different geometries involving interfaces between both a monolayer and a bilayer and between two bilayers. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Johan Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres

We investigate the electronic transport properties of a bilayer graphene flake contacted by two monolayer nanoribbons. Such a finite-size bilayer flake can be built by overlapping two semiinfinite ribbons or by depositing a monolayer flake…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 J. W. Gonzalez , H. Santos , M. Pacheco , L. Chico , L. Brey

We study the transport properties of a twisted bilayer graphene flake contacted by two monolayer nanoribbons which act as leads. We analyze the conductance in terms of the spectra of the bilayer nanoribbon and the monolayer contacts. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Pelc , E. Suárez Morell , L. Brey , L. Chico

The transmission across a graphene bilayer region is calculated for two different types of connections to monolayer leads. A transfer matrix algorithm based on a tight binding model is developed to obtain the ballistic transmission beyond…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Hadi Z. Olyaei , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro

We demonstrate that the electronic gap of a graphene bilayer can be controlled externally by applying a gate bias. From the magneto-transport data (Shubnikov-de Haas measurements of the cyclotron mass), and using a tight binding model, we…

We investigate electronic transport property of a graphene monolayer covered by a graphene nanoribbon. We demonstrate that electronic transmission of a monolayer can be reduced when covered by a nanoribbon. The transmission reduction occurs…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-23 Daniel Valencia , Jun-Qiang Lu , Jian Wu , Feng Liu , Feng Zhai , Yong-Jin Jiang

We evaluate the electronic transmission and conductance in bilayer graphene through a finite number of potential barriers. Further, we evaluate the dispersion relation in a bilayer graphene superlattice with a periodic potential applied to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-21 M. Barbier , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters , J. Milton Pereira

We investigate the transport properties of double-gated bilayer graphene nanoribbons at room temperature. The devices were fabricated using conventional CMOS-compatible processes. By analyzing the dependence of the resistance at the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Bartholomaeus N. Szafranek , Daniel Schall , Martin Otto , Daniel Neumaier , Heinrich Kurz

We theoretically show that an interlayer bias voltage in the AB-stacked bilayer graphene nanoribbons with armchair edges induces an electric polarization along the ribbon. Both tight-binding and ab initio calculations consistently indicate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 Ryo Okugawa , Junya Tanaka , Takashi Koretsune , Susumu Saito , Shuichi Murakami

Intrinsic bilayer graphene is a gapless semimetal. Under the application of a bias field it becomes a semiconductor with a direct band gap that is proportional to the applied field. Under a layer-asymmetric strain (where the upper layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-04 J. A. Crosse

We present transport measurements on a bilayer graphene sheet with homogeneous back gate and split top gate. The electronic transport data indicates the capability to direct electron flow through graphene nanostructures purely defined by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 S. Dröscher , C. Barraud , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

The electron transmission between monolayer and bilayer graphene is theoretically studied for zigzag and armchair boundaries within an effective-mass scheme. Due to the presence of an evanescent wave in the bilayer graphene, traveling modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 Takeshi Nakanishi , Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

The interlayer coupling of twisted bilayer graphene could markedly affect its electronic band structure. A current challenge required to overcome in experiment is how to precisely control the coupling and therefore tune the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 Lan Meng , Wei Yan , Zhao-Dong Chu , Yanfeng Zhang , Lei Feng , Rui-Fen Dou , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

The electronic conductance of graphene-based bilayer flake systems reveal different quantum interference effects, such as Fabry-P\'erot resonances and sharp Fano antiresonances on account of competing electronic paths through the device.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 D. Zambrano , L. Rosales , A. Latgé , M. Pacheco , P. A. Orellana

Electronic properties of bilayer graphene are distinct from both the conventional two dimensional electron gas and monolayer graphene due to its particular chiral properties and excitation charge carrier dispersions. We study the effect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Habib Rostami , Reza Asgari

Bilayer graphene -- two coupled single graphene layers stacked as in graphite -- provides the only known semiconductor with a gap that can be tuned externally through electric field effect. Here we use a tight binding approach to study how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Eduardo V. Castro , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

We theoretically investigate a folded bilayer graphene structure as an experimentally realizable platform to produce the one-dimensional topological zero-line modes. We demonstrate that the folded bilayer graphene under an external gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Tao Hou , Guanghui Chen , Wang-Kong Tse , Changgan Zeng , Zhenhua Qiao

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

We investigate the electronic transport properties of a folded graphene nanoribbon with monolayer nanoribbon contacts. We consider two possible foldings: either the nanoribbon can be folded onto itself in the shape of a hairpin with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-11 Jhon W. González , Mónica Pacheco , Pedro Orellana , Luis Brey , Leonor Chico

The role of graphene in mediating the exchange interaction is theoretically investigated when it is placed between two ferromagnetic dielectric materials. The calculation based on a tight-binding model illustrates that the magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. G. Semenov , J. M. Zavada , K. W. Kim
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