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Graphene-hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) scalable heterostructures are pivotal for the development of graphene-based high-tech applications. In this work, we demonstrate the realization of high-quality graphene-hBN heterostructures entirely…

We study electron transport properties of a monoatomic graphite layer (graphene) with different types of disorder. We show that the transport properties of the system depend strongly on the character of disorder. Away from half filling, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

Hexagonal boron-nitride (h-BN) provides an ideal substrate for supporting graphene devices to achieve fascinating transport properties, such as Klein tunneling, electron optics and other novel quantum transport phenomena. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Viet-Anh Tran , Viet-Hung Nguyen , Jean-Christophe Charlier

Chemically synthesized "cove"-type graphene nanoribbons (cGNRs) of different widths were brought into dispersion and drop-cast onto exfoliated hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on a Si/SiO2 chip. With AFM we observed that the cGNRs form ordered…

Graphene holds great promise for post-silicon electronics, however, it faces two main challenges: opening up a bandgap and finding a suitable substrate material. In principle, graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrate provides…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-27 Neerav Kharche , Saroj K. Nayak

Interlayer electron transport through a graphene / hexagonal boron-nitride (h-BN) / graphene heterostructure is strongly affected by the misorientation angle $\theta$ of the h-BN with respect to the graphene layers with different physical…

Chemical and structural diversity present in hexagonal boron nitride ((h-BN) and graphene hybrid nanostructures provide new avenues for tuning various properties for their technological applications. In this paper we investigate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Alper Kinaci , Justin B. Haskins , Cem Sevik , Tahir Cagin

All local electronic properties of graphene on a hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrate exhibit spatial moir\'e patterns related to lattice constant and orientation differences between shared triangular Bravais lattices. We apply a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ashley M. DaSilva , Jeil Jung , Shaffique Adam , Allan H. MacDonald

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a promising two-dimensional insulator with a large band gap and low density of charged impurities that is isostructural and isoelectronic with graphene. Here we report the chemical and atomic-scale…

The thermal conductivity of suspended few-layer hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) was measured using a micro-bridge device with built-in resistance thermometers. Based on the measured thermal resistance values of 11-12 atomic layer h-BN…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-02-18 Insun Jo , Michael Thompson Pettes , Jaehyun Kim , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Zhen Yao , Li Shi

We present electronic transport measurements through short and narrow (30x30 nm) single layer graphene constrictions on a hexagonal boron nitride substrate. While the general observation of Coulomb-blockade is compatible with earlier work,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-30 Dominik Bischoff , Florian Libisch , Joachim Burgdörfer , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin

Rhombohedral multilayer graphene hosts a rich landscape of correlated symmetry-broken phases, driven by strong interactions from its flat band edges. Aligning to hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) creates a moir\'e pattern, leading to recent…

When combined with graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is an ideal substrate and gate dielectric with which to build metalh-BN|graphene field-effect devices. We use first-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations for…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-11 Menno Bokdam , Petr A. Khomyakov , Geert Brocks , Zhicheng Zhong , Paul J. Kelly

High mobility single and few-layer graphene sheets are in many ways attractive as nanoelectronic circuit hosts but lack energy gaps, which are essential to the operation of field-effect transistors. One of the methods used to create gaps in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Hakseong Kim , Nicolas Leconte , Bheema L. Chittari , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Allan H. MacDonald , Jeil Jung , Suyong Jung

Monolayer of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), commonly known as "white graphene" is a promising wide bandgap semiconducting material for deep-ultaviolet optoelectronic devices. In this report, the light absorption of a single layer hexagonal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-26 Aniruddha Konar , Raj Jana , Tian Fang , Guowang Li , William O'Brien , Debdeep Jena

Graphene field-effect transistors are fabricated utilizing single-crystal hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), an insulating isomorph of graphene, as the gate dielectric. The devices exhibit mobility values exceeding 10,000 cm2/V-sec and current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 I. Meric , C. R. Dean , A. F. Young , J. Hone , P. Kim , K. L. Shepard

Hexagonal boron nitride (BN), one of the very few layered insulators, plays a crucial role in 2D materials research. In particular, BN grown with a high pressure technique has proven to be an excellent substrate material for graphene and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 J. Sonntag , J. Li , A. Plaud , A. Loiseau , J. Barjon , J. H. Edgar , C. Stampfer

We investigated the possibility of superconductivity in monolayer hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) doped using each group-1 (Li, Na, K) and group-2 (Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba) atom via ab-initio calculations. Consequently, we reveal that Sr- and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-20 Nao. H. Shimada , Emi Minamitani , Satoshi Watanabe

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is drawing increasing attention as an insulator and substrate material to develop next generation graphene-based electronic devices. In this paper, we investigate the quantum transport in heterostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Y. Zhao , Z. Wan , X. Xu , S. R. Patil , U. Hetmaniuk , M. P. Anantram

We determine the electronic structure of a graphene sheet on top of a lattice-matched hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) substrate using ab initio density functional calculations. The most stable configuration has one carbon atom on top of a…