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Bilayer graphene with an interlayer potential difference has an energy gap and, when the potential difference varies spatially, topologically protected one-dimensional states localized along the difference's zero-lines. When disorder is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-11 Zhenhua Qiao , Jeil Jung , Qian Niu , Allan H. MacDonald

We study the effect of a sharply localized magnetic field on the electron transport in a strip (ribbon) of graphene sheet, which allows to give results for the transmission and reflection probability through magnetic barriers. The magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Abdulaziz D. Alhaidari , Hocine Bahlouli , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

It is well known that a direct band gap may be opened in bilayer graphene via the application of a perpendicular electric field (bias). The bias and the chemical potential are controlled by electrostatic gating where the top and bottom gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Jack N. Engdahl , Zeb E. Krix , Oleg P. Sushkov

The band structure and transport properties of massive Dirac Fermions in bilayer graphene with velocity modulation in space are investigated in presence of the previously created band gap. It is pointed out that the velocity engineering is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-27 Hosein Cheraghchi , Fatemeh Adinehvand

The electronic properties of bilayer graphene strongly depend on relative orientation of the two atomic lattices. Whereas Bernal-stacked graphene is most commonly studied, a rotational mismatch between layers opens up a whole new field of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-15 Hennrik Schmidt , Johannes C. Rode , Dmitri Smirnov , Rolf J. Haug

We study the electronic transport properties of dual-gated bilayer graphene devices. We focus on the regime of low temperatures and high electric displacement fields, where we observe a clear exponential dependence of the resistance as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Thiti Taychatanapat , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

We investigate the electronic band structure and the proximity exchange effect in bilayer graphene on a family of ferromagnetic multilayers Cr$_2$X$_2$Te$_6$, X=Ge, Si, and Sn, with first principles methods. In each case the intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Klaus Zollner , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

Twisted van der Waals materials have risen as highly tunable platform for realizing unconventional superconductivity. Here we demonstrate how a topological superconducting state can be driven in a twisted graphene multilayer at a twist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Maryam Khosravian , Elena Bascones , Jose L. Lado

By studying the impact of a perpendicular magnetic field $B$ on AB-bilayer graphene (AB-BLG) under dual gating, we yield several key findings for the ballistic transport of gate $U_\infty$. Firstly, we discover that the presence of $B$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-29 Mouhamadou Hassane Saley , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

We introduce a new approach that allows one complete control over the modulation of the effective twist angle change in few-layer van der Waals heterostructures by irradiating them with longitudinal waves of light at the end of a waveguide.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Michael Vogl , Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Gregory A. Fiete

In this work we show that the trigonal warping of the electronic bands in bilayer graphene dramatically modifies the behavior of the one-dimensional modes topologically confined due to an inhomogeneous bias that changes sign across a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 A. S. Núñez , E. Suárez Morell , P. Vargas

We show that a bilayer graphene flake deposited above a ferromagnetic insulator can behave as a spin-filtering device. The ferromagnetic material induces exchange splitting in the graphene flake, and due to the Fano antiresonances occurring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 P. A. Orellana , L. Rosales , L. Chico , M. Pacheco

Here, we theoretically investigate the nonreciprocal response of an electrically biased graphene-coated dielectric fiber. By electrically biasing the graphene coating along the fiber axis, the dynamic conductivity of graphene exhibits a…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-22 Asma Fallah , Nader Engheta

We present a beam splitter in a suspended, ballistic, multiterminal, bilayer graphene device. By using local bottomgates, a p-n interface tilted with respect to the current direction can be formed. We show that the p-n interface acts as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-24 Peter Rickhaus , Péter Makk , Ming-Hao Liu , Klaus Richter , Christian Schönenberger

We study theoretically how energy and heat are transferred between the two-dimensional layers of bilayer carrier systems due to near-field interlayer carrier interaction. We derive general expressions for the interlayer heat transfer and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Mika Prunnila , Sampo J. Laakso

Pristine bilayer graphene behaves in some instances as an insulator with a transport gap of a few meV. This behaviour has been interpreted as the result of an intrinsic electronic instability induced by many-body correlations. Intriguingly,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 P. San-Jose , R. V. Gorbachev , A. K. Geim , K. S. Novoselov , F. Guinea

The existence of inequivalent valleys K and K' in the momentum space of two-dimensional hexagonal lattices provides a new electronic degree of freedom, the manipulation of which can potentially lead to new types of electronics, in analogy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 J. Li , K. Wang , K. J. McFaul , Z. Zern , Y. F. Ren , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Z. H. Qiao , J. Zhu

We study thermal transport in folded graphene nanoribbons using molecular dynamics simulations and the non-equilibrium Green's function method. It is found that the thermal conductivity of flat graphene nanoribbons can be modulated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Nuo Yang , Xiaoxi Ni , Jin-Wu Jiang , Baowen Li

We model the optical visibility of monolayer and bilayer graphene deposited on a silicon/silicon oxide substrate or thermally annealed on the surface of silicon carbide. We consider reflection and transmission setups, and find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-25 D. S. L. Abergel , A. Russell , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Metals are commonly used as electrostatic gates in devices due to their abundant charge carrier densities that are necessary for efficient charging and discharging. A semiconducting gate can be beneficial for certain fabrication processes,…