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The transport properties of electrons in graphene $p$-$n$ junction with uniform Kekul\'e lattice distortion have been studied using the tight-binding model and the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism combined with the nonequilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Peipei Zhang , Chao Wang , Yu-Xian Li , Lixue Zhai , Juntao Song

The p-n junctions dynamics in graphene channel induced by stripe domains nucleation, motion and reversal in a ferroelectric substrate is explored using self-consistent approach based on Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire phenomenology combined with…

The electronic properties of graphene can be modified by the local interaction with a selected metal substrate. To probe this effect, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy is widely employed, particularly by means of local measurement via lock-in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-01 Virginia Carnevali , Alessandro Sala , Pietro Biasin , Mirco Panighel , Giovanni Comelli , Maria Peressi , Cristina Africh

We study heat transport in normal/superconducting graphene junctions. We find that while the thermal conductance displays the usual exponential dependence on temperature, reflecting the s-wave symmetry of the superconductor, it exhibits an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Takehito Yokoyama , Jacob Linder , Asle Sudbo

We study the charge carriers transport in an AA-stacked bilayer graphene modulated by a lateral one-dimensional multibarrier structure. We investigate the band structures of our system, that is made up of two shifted Dirac cones, for finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 Ilham Redouani , Ahmed Jellal

Top-gated, few-layer graphene field-effect transistors (FETs) fabricated on thermally-decomposed semi-insulating 4H-SiC substrates are demonstrated. Physical vapor deposited SiO2 is used as the gate dielectric. A two-dimensional hexagonal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Q. Wu , P. D. Ye , M. A. Capano , Y. Xuan , Y. Sui , M. Qi , J. A. Cooper

We propose the theory of transport in a gate-tunable graphene p-n junction, in which the gradient of the carrier density is controlled by the gate voltage. Depending on this gradient and on the density of charged impurities, the junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-21 M. M. Fogler , L. I. Glazman , D. S. Novikov , B. I. Shklovskii

We investigate magnetotransport in a ferromagnetic/normal/ferromagnetic graphene junction where a gate electrode is attached to the normal segment. It is shown that the charge conductance can be maximal at an antiparallel configuration of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Takehito Yokoyama , Jacob Linder

We study a two-terminal graphene Josephson junction with contacts shaped to form a narrow constriction, less than 100nm in length. The contacts are made from type II superconducting contacts and able to withstand magnetic fields high enough…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 M. T. Wei , A. W. Draelos , A. Seredinski , C. T. Ke , H. Li , Y. Mehta , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. Yamamoto , S. Tarucha , G. Finkelstein , F. Amet , I. V. Borzenets

We investigate the conductivity of graphene sheet deformed over a gate. The effect of the deformation on the conductivity is twofold: The lattice distortion can be represented as pseudovector potential in the Dirac equation formalism,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. V. Medvedyeva , Ya. M. Blanter

Within the tight binding approximation, we study the dependence of the electronic band structure and of the optical conductivity of a graphene single layer on the modulus and direction of applied uniaxial strain. While the Dirac cone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-15 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

We investigate charge transport of pn and npn junctions made from silicene, Si analogue of graphene. The conductance shows the distinct gate-voltage dependences peculiar to the topological and non-topological phases, where the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-12 Ai Yamakage , Motohiko Ezawa , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

Graphene double quantum open the possibility to use charge or spin degrees of freedom for storing and manipulating quantum information in this new electronic material. However, impurities and edge disorders in etched graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-18 Da Wei , Hai-Ou Li , Gang Cao , Gang Luo , Zhi-Xiong Zheng , Tao Tu , Ming Xiao , Guang-Can Guo , Hong-Wen Jiang , Guo-Ping Guo

The electrons in graphene for energies close to the Dirac point have been found to form strongly interacting fluid. Taking this fact into account we have extended previous work on the transport properties of graphene by taking into account…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Marek Rogatko , Karol. I. Wysokinski

The absence of a band-gap in graphene limits the gate modulation of its electron conductivity, both in regular graphene as well as in PN junctions, where electrostatic barriers prove transparent to Klein tunneling. We demonstrate a novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Redwan Sajjad , Avik Ghosh

We study the the transport properties of multiterminal ballistic graphene samples, concentrating on the conductance matrix, fluctuations and cross-correlations. Far away from Dirac point, the current is carried mostly by propagating modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-03 M. A. Laakso , T. T. Heikkilä

In a graphene {\em pn} junction at high magnetic field, unidirectional "snake states" are formed at the {\em pn} interface. In a clean {\em pn} junction, each snake state exists in one of the valleys of the graphene band structure, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Christian Fraessdorf , Luka Trifunovic , Nils Bogdanoff , Piet W. Brouwer

We show that Andreev reflection in a junction between ferromagnetic (F) and superconducting (S) graphene regions is fundamentally different from the common FS junctions. For a weakly doped F graphene with an exchange field $h$ larger than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Malek Zareyan , Hakimeh Mohammadpour , Ali G. Moghaddam

Graphene is believed to be an excellent candidate material for next-generation electronic devices. However, one needs to take into account the nontrivial effect of metal contacts in order to precisely control the charge injection and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Salvador Barraza-Lopez , Markus Kindermann , M. Y. Chou

The two-dimensional nature of graphene makes it an ideal platform to explore proximity-induced unconventional planar superconductivity and the possibility of topological superconductivity. Using Green's functions techniques, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Oscar E. Casas , Shirley Gómez Páez , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Pablo Burset , William J. Herrera