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We present first principles study of thermoelectric transport properties of sandwiched heterostructure of Graphene (G)/hexagonal Boron Nitride (BN)/G, based on Boltzmann transport theory for band electrons using the bandstructure calculated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Ransell D'Souza , Sugata Mukherjee

Electron transport in graphene is along the sheet but junction devices are often made by stacking different sheets together in a "side-contact" geometry which causes the current to flow perpendicular to the sheets within the device. Such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-04-08 Xiang-Guo Li , Iek-Heng Chu , X. -G. Zhang , Hai-Ping Cheng

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

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

Graphene multilayers exhibit electronic spectra that depend sensitively on both the number of layers and their stacking order. Beyond trilayer graphene, mixed stacking sequences (alternating Bernal and rhombohedral layers) give rise to…

We describe the electronic conductivity, as a function of the Fermi energy, in the Bernal bilayer graphene (BLG) in presence of a random distribution of vacancies that simulate resonant adsorbates. We compare it to monolayer (MLG) with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Ahmed Missaoui , Jouda Jemaa Khabthani , Nejm-Eddine Jaidane , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

We investigate the ballistic electron transport in a monolayer graphene with configurational averaged impurities, located between two clean graphene leads. It is shown that the electron transmission are strongly dependent on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-28 Juan Sebastian Ardenghi , Pablo Bechthold , Estela Gonzalez , Paula Jasen , Alfredo Juan

Folded single layer graphene forms a system of two decoupled monolayers being only a few Angstroms apart. Using magnetotransport measurements we investigate the electronic properties of the two layers conducting in parallel. We show a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 H. Schmidt , T. Luedtke , P. Barthold , R. J. Haug

A transfer matrix approach to study ballistic charge transport in few-layer graphene with chiral-symmetric stacking configurations is developed. We demonstrate that the chiral symmetry justifies a non-Abelian gauge transformation at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-12 W. -R. Hannes , M. Titov

The specifics of charge screening and electrostatic potential spatial distribution in multilayered graphene films placed in between charged substrates is theoretically analyzed. It is shown that by varying the areal charge densities on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-21 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya , Eugene J. Mele

We introduce a quasi-relativistic theory of quantum transport in graphene monolayer. It is based on the Dirac -- Hartry -- Fock self-consistent field approximation, assumption on lattice anti-ferromagnetic ordering and an approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 Halina V. Grushevskaya , George Krylov

We obtain the output characteristics of graphene field-effect transistors by using the charge-control model for the current, based on the solution of the Boltzmann equation in the field-dependent relaxation time approximation. Closed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-22 Brett W. Scott , Jean-Pierre Leburton

Quantum transport properties of disordered graphene with structural defects (Stone-Wales and divacancies) are investigated using a realistic {\pi}-{\pi}* tight-binding model elaborated from ab initio calculations. Mean free paths and…

The intrinsic values of the carriers mobility and density of the graphene layers inside graphite, the well known structure built on these layers in the Bernal stacking configuration, are not well known mainly because most of the research…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Dusari , J. Barzola-Quiquia , P. Esquinazi , N. García

The Chalker-Coddington network model (introduced originally as a model for percolation in the quantum Hall effect) is known to map onto the two-dimensional Dirac equation. Here we show how the network model can be used to solve a scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-17 I. Snyman , J. Tworzydlo , C. W. J. Beenakker

We investigate the conductivity of charge carriers confined to a two-dimensional system with the non-parabolic dispersion $k^N$ with $N$ being an arbitrary natural number. A delta-shaped scattering potential is assumed as the major source…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-24 Bretislav Sopik , Janik Kailasvuori , Maxim Trushin

Pristine graphene and graphene-based heterostructures exhibit exceptionally high electron mobility and conductance if their surface contains few electron-scattering impurities. Here, we reveal a universal connection between graphene's…

The transport coefficients of a dilute classical gas in the presence of a drag force proportional to the velocity of the particle are determined from the Boltzmann equation. The viscous drag force could model the friction of solid particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 José Carlos Pérez-Fuentes , Vicente Garzó

We experimentally investigate electrical transport properties of graphene, which is a two dimensional (2D) conductor with relativistic energy dispersion relation. By investigating single- and bi-layer graphene devices with different aspect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Miao , S. Wijeratne , U. Coskun , Y. Zhang , C. N. Lau

Using a semi-classical approach and input from experiments on the conductivity of graphene, we determine the electronic density dependence of the electronic transport coefficients -- conductivity, thermal conductivity and thermopower -- of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , T. Stauber