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We present magnetotransport measurements at classical magnetic fields for three graphene monolayers with various levels of disorder. A square root magnetoresistance (SRMR) behavior is observed in one sample which has the characteristic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-18 G. Yu. Vasileva , P. S. Alekseev , Yu. B. Vasilyev , Yu. L. Ivanov , D. Smirnov , H. Schmidt , R. J. Haug

We study fully hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)-encapsulated graphene spin valve devices at room temperature. The device consists of a graphene channel encapsulated between two crystalline hBN flakes; thick-hBN flake as a bottom gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-01 M. Gurram , S. Omar , S. Zihlmann , P. Makk , C. Schönenberger , B. J. van Wees

Principal characteristics of interlayer interaction and relative motion of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) layers are investigated by the first-principles method taking into account van der Waals interactions. Dependences of the interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Alexander V. Lebedev , Irina V. Lebedeva , Andrey A. Knizhnik , Andrey M. Popov

Novel uses for 2-dimensional materials like graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) are being frequently discovered especially for membrane and catalysis applications. Still however, a great deal remains to be understood about the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-25 Yasmine S. Al-Hamdani , Dario Alfè , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld , Angelos Michaelides

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) encapsulation significantly improves carrier transport in graphene. This work investigates the benefit of implementing the encapsulation technique in graphene field-effect transistors (GFET) in terms of their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-28 Pedro C. Feijoo , Francisco Pasadas , José M. Iglesias , El Mokhtar Hamham , Raúl Rengel , David Jiménez

Graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (G/$h$-BN) heterostructures offer an excellent platform for developing nanoelectronic devices and for exploring correlated states in graphene under modulation by a periodic superlattice potential. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Jiayu Li , Li Lin , Guang-Yao Huang , N. Kang , Jincan Zhang , Hailin Peng , Zhongfan Liu , H. Q. Xu

We study the optical conductivity in the low-energy regime of gapped mono- and bilayer graphene. A scaling relation is found, in which the four parameters frequency, gap, Fermi energy and temperature appear only as combination of three…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-20 K. Ziegler , A. Sinner

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and graphene are similar in many ways - they are isoelectronic, have the same structure, are chemically inert and show persistence. All of these properties are indicators of a deeper connection that has, thus…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-02 Suryakanti Debata , Sai Krishna Narayanan , Pratibha Dev

The van der Waals heterostructures of two-dimensional (2D) atomic crystals constitute a new paradigm in nanoscience. Hybrid devices of graphene with insulating 2D hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) have emerged as promising nanoelectronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-24 M. Venkata Kamalakar , André Dankert , Johan Bergsten , Tommy Ive , Saroj P. Dash

Two-dimensional graphene, carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons represent a novel class of low dimensional materials that could serve as building blocks for future carbon-based nanoelectronics. Although these systems share a similar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-05 Alessandro Cresti , Norbert Nemec , Blanca Biel , Gabriel Niebler , Francois Triozon , Gianaurelio Cuniberti , Stephan Roche

We report on quantum transport measurements on etched graphene nanoribbons encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). At zero magnetic field our devices behave qualitatively very similar to what has been reported for graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. Epping , C. Volk , F. Buckstegge , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , C. Stampfer

Using periodic DFT, we examined the adsorption of NO2, NH3, and O3 on the h-BN side of a graphene/h-BN heterostructure designed as a model gas sensor material. The h-BN overlayer serves both as an active adsorption surface and as protection…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-17 Martin Siebel , Pavel Rubin , Raivo Jaaniso

Motivated by recent experiments on suspended graphene showing carrier mobilities as high as 200,000 cm^2/Vs, we theoretically calculate transport properties assuming Coulomb impurities as the dominant scattering mechanism. We argue that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-05-11 S. Adam , S. Das Sarma

Since the rising of graphene, boron nitride monolayers have been deeply studied due to their structural similarity with the former. A hexagonal graphene-like boron-carbon-nitrogen (h-BCN) monolayer was synthesized recently using bis-BN…

We study carrier transport through graphene on SrTiO$_3$ substrates by considering relative contributions of Coulomb and resonant impurity scattering to graphene resistivity. We establish that charged impurity scattering must dominate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 S. Das Sarma , Qiuzi Li

We review the fabrication and transport characterization of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)/Bernal bilayer graphene (BLG) moir\'e superlattices. Due to the moir\'e effect, the hBN/BLG moir\'e superlattices exhibit an energy gap at the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Takuya Iwasaki , Yoshifumi Morita

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is the supporting substrate of choice for two-dimensional material devices because it is atomically flat and chemically inert. However, due to the small size of mechanically exfoliated hBN flakes, electronic…

The corrosion of metallic surfaces poses significant challenges across industries such as petroleum, energy, and biomedical sectors, leading to structural degradation, safety risks, and substantial maintenance costs. Traditional organic and…

We present electronic transport measurements of single- and bilayer graphene on commercially available hexagonal boron nitride. We extract mobilities as high as 125 000 cm^2/V/s at room temperature and 275 000 cm^2/V/s at 4.2 K. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 P. J. Zomer , S. P. Dash , N. Tombros , B. J. van Wees

Graphene provides a unique platform for hosting high quality 2D electron systems. Encapsulating graphene with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) to shield it from noisy environments offers the potential to achieve ultrahigh performance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Won Beom Choi , Youngoh Son , Hangyeol Park , Yungi Jeong , Junhyeok Oh , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Joonho Jang