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Graphynes, a class of two-dimensional carbon allotropes, exhibit exceptional electronic properties, similar to graphene, but with intrinsic band gaps, making them promising for semiconducting applications. The incorporation of acetylene…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-28 Elif Unsal , Alessandro Pecchia , Alexander Croy , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

The electronic and transport properties of aluminum-graphene composite materials were investigated using ab initio plane wave density functional theory. The interfacial structure is reported for several configurations. In some cases, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-12 K. Nepal , C. Ugwumadu , K. N. Subedi , K. Kappagantula , D. A. Drabold

Graphene -a recently discovered one-atom-thick layer of graphite- constitutes a new model system in condensed matter physics, because it is the first material in which charge carriers behave as massless chiral relativistic particles. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hubert B. Heersche , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Jeroen B. Oostinga , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen , Alberto F. Morpurgo

We theoretically analyze the possibility to confine electrons in single-layer graphene with the help of metallic gates, via the evaluation of the density of states of such a gate-defined quantum dot in the presence of a ring-shaped metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Martin Schneider , Piet W. Brouwer

The elimination of extrinsic sources of spin relaxation is key in realizing the exceptional intrinsic spin transport performance of graphene. Towards this, we study charge and spin transport in bilayer graphene-based spin valve devices…

We investigate the conductivity of doped graphene in the semiclassical Boltzmann limit, as well as the conductivity minimum within the self-consistent transport theory. Using the hard-disk model for a two-dimensional distribution of…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-21 Rastko Aničić , Zoran L. Mišković

Graphene, a single sheet of graphite with honeycomb lattice structure, has massless carriers with tunable density and polarity. We investigate the ground state phase diagram of two graphene sheets (embedded in a dielectric) separated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. -H. Zhang , Yogesh N. Joglekar

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

We present transport measurements on quantum dots of sizes 45, 60 and 80 nm etched with an Ar/O2-plasma into a single graphene sheet, allowing a size comparison avoiding effects from different graphene flakes. The transport gaps and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-01 D. Kölbl , D. M. Zumbühl

Using density functional theory, we present a comparative study of the electronic properties of BN-doped graphene monolayer, bilayer, trilayer, and multilayer systems. In addition, we address a superlattice of pristine and BN-doped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 T. P. Kaloni , R. P. Joshi , N. P. Adhikari , U. Schwingenschlögl

Hydrodynamic electron transport arises when carrier kinetics are dominated by interelectron collisions rather than the relaxation of momentum out of the electron system. In recent years, signatures of electron hydrodynamics have been…

Graphene with high carrier mobility \mu\ is required both for graphene-based electronic devices and for the investigation of the fundamental properties of graphene's Dirac fermions. It is largely accepted that the mobility-limiting factor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-08 A. K. M. Newaz , Yevgeniy S. Puzyrev , Bin Wang , Sokrates T. Pantelides , Kirill I. Bolotin

When electrons are confined in two-dimensional (2D) materials, quantum mechanically enhanced transport phenomena, as exemplified by the quantum Hall effects (QHE), can be observed. Graphene, an isolated single atomic layer of graphite, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuanbo Zhang , Yan-Wen Tan , Horst L. Stormer , Philip Kim

We present measurements of the electronic compressibility, $K$, of bilayer graphene in both zero and finite magnetic fields up to 14 T, and as a function of both the carrier density and electric field perpendicular to the graphene sheet.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-28 E. A. Henriksen , J. P. Eisenstein

Graphene bilayer systems are known to exhibit a band gap when the layer symmetry is broken, by applying a perpendicular electric field. The resulting band structure resembles that of a conventional semiconductor with a parabolic dispersion.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Søren Schou Gregersen , Jesper Goor Pedersen , Stephen R. Power , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene, with its flat electronic bands and concentrated Berry curvature, is a promising material for the realization of correlated topological phases of matter. When aligned to an adjacent hexagonal boron nitride…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Samuel H. Aronson , Tonghang Han , Zhengguang Lu , Yuxuan Yao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Long Ju , Raymond C. Ashoori

Confinement and edge structures are known to play significant roles in electronic and transport properties of two-dimensional materials. Here, we report on low-temperature magnetotransport measurements of lithographically patterned graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 G. Q. Zhang , N. Kang , J. Y. Li , Li Lin , Hailin Peng , Zhongfan Liu , H. Q. Xu

Graphene possesses a unique combination of physical properties including high carrier mobility and high current density it can sustain. In contrast to bulk metals, graphene does not completely screen the external electrostatic field. In…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Alexander Khitun

We present exact results for the electronic transport properties of graphene sheets connected to two metallic electrodes. Our results, obtained by transfer-matrix methods, are valid for all sheet widths and lengths. In the limit of large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Shijie Hu , Wei Du , Guiping Zhang , Miao Gao , Zhong-Yi Lu , Xiaoqun Wang

Inelastic phonon scattering in graphene field-effect transistors (FETs) is studied by numerically solving the Boltzmann transport equation in three dimensional real and phase spaces (x, kx, ky). A kink behavior due to ambipolar transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jyotsna Chauhan , Jing Guo