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We analyze the single particle states at the edges of disordered graphene quantum dots. We show that generic graphene quantum dots support a number of edge states proportional to circumference of the dot over the lattice constant. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-13 M. Wimmer , A. R. Akhmerov , F. Guinea

We investigate the conductance of normal-conductor/graphene/normal-conductor (NGN) junctions for arbitrary on-site potentials in the normal and graphitic parts of the system. We find that a ballistic NGN junction can display insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-11 John P Robinson , Henning Schomerus

We study the origin of interface states in carbon nanotube intramolecular junctions between achiral tubes. By applying the Born-von Karman boundary condition to an interface between armchair- and zigzag-terminated graphene layers, we are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-01 H. Santos , A. Ayuela , W. Jaskólski , M. Pelc , L. Chico

The peculiar nature of electron scattering in graphene is among many exciting theoretical predictions for the physical properties of this material. To investigate electron scattering properties in a graphene plane, we have created a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 B. Huard , J. A. Sulpizio , N. Stander , K. Todd , B. Yang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Based on the tight-binding model calculations and photonic experimental visualization on graphene, we report the domain-wall-induced gapped topological kink states and topological corner states. In graphene, domain walls with gapless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 Yuting Yang , Ziyuan Jia , Yijia Wu , Zhi-Hong Hang , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

We study numerically cross conductances in a four-terminal all-graphene setup. We show that far away from the Dirac point current flows along zigzag directions, giving the possibility to guide the current between terminals using a tunable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-01 Kimmo Sääskilahti , Ari Harju , Pirjo Pasanen

Recent experiments [L. Ju et al., Nature, 2015, 520, 650] confirm the existence of gapless states at domain walls created in gated bilayer graphene, when the sublattice stacking is changed from AB to BA. These states are significant because…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-15 Wlodzimierz Jaskolski , Marta Pelc , Leonor Chico , Andres Ayuela

Graphene is a unique two-dimensional material with rich new physics and great promise for applications in electronic devices. Physical phenomena such as the half-integer quantum Hall effect and high carrier mobility are critically dependent…

We study the charge density distribution, the electric field profile, and the resistance of an electrostatically created lateral p-n junction in graphene. We show that the electric field at the interface of the electron and hole regions is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-22 L. M. Zhang , M. M. Fogler

Linear conductance of graphene-based p-n junctions with Rashba spin-orbit coupling is considered theoretically. A square potential step is used to model the junctions, while the coupling is introduced in terms of the Kane-Mele model (C.L.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-29 Marek Rataj , Józef Barnaś

Herein we discuss the fabrication of ballistic suspended graphene nanostructures supplemented with local gating. Using in-situ current annealing, we show that exceptional high mobilities can be obtained in these devices. A detailed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 Romain Maurand , Peter Rickhaus , Peter Makk , Samuel Hess , Endre Tovari , Clevin Handschin , Markus Weiss , Christian Schonenberger

We introduce a model for amorphous grain boundaries in graphene, and find that stable structures can exist along the boundary that are responsible for local density of states enhancements both at zero and finite (~0.5 eV) energies. Such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-02 Andrej Mesaros , Stefanos Papanikolaou , C. F. J. Flipse , Darius Sadri , Jan Zaanen

We report transport experiments on graphene quantum dots. We focus on excited state spectra in the near vicinity of the charge neutrality point and signatures of the electron-hole crossover as a function of a perpendicular magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-19 J. Guettinger , C. Stampfer , T. Frey , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

We consider a network model of snake states to study the localization problem of non-interacting fermions in a random magnetic field with zero average. After averaging over the randomness, the network of snake states is mapped onto $M$…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Yong Baek Kim , Akira Furusaki , Derek K. K. Lee

We show that the strong coupling of pseudospin orientation and charge carrier motion in bilayer graphene has a drastic effect on transport properties of ballistic p-n-p junctions. Electronic states with zero momentum parallel to the barrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-29 Nan Gu , Mark Rudner , Leonid Levitov

We introduce a new scheme to realize suspended, multi-terminal graphene structures that can be current annealed successfully to obtain uniform, very high quality devices. A key aspect is that the bulky metallic contacts are not connected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Dong-Keun Ki , Alberto F. Morpurgo

The recent discovery of methods to isolate graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of crystalline carbon, has raised the possibility of a new class of nano-electronics devices based on the extraordinary electrical transport and unusual physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-02 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Anthony Barker , Eva Y. Andrei

Graphene field-effect transistors exhibit negligible transconductance under two scenarios: for any gate-to-source voltage when the drain-to-source voltage is set to zero, and for an arbitrary drain-to-source voltage provided that the…

We report macroscopic sheets of highly conductive bilayer graphene with exceptionally high hole concentrations of ~ $10^{15}$ $cm^{-2}$ and unprecedented sheet resistances of 20-25 {\Omega} per square over macroscopic scales, and obtained…

We perform electrical transport measurements in graphene with several sample geometries. In particular, we design ``invasive'' probes crossing the whole graphene sheet as well as ``external'' probes connected through graphene side arms. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-07 B. Huard , N. Stander , J. A. Sulpizio , D. Goldhaber-Gordon
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