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A striking feature of bilayer graphene is the induction of a significant band gap in the electronic states by the application of a perpendicular electric field. Thicker graphene layers are also highly attractive materials. The ability to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 Chun Hung Lui , Zhiqiang Li , Kin Fai Mak , Emmanuele Cappelluti , Tony F. Heinz

The electromagnetic characteristics of bilayer quantum Hall systems in the presence of interlayer coherence and tunneling are studied by means of a pseudospin-texture effective theory and an algebraic framework of the single-mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Shizuya

Bilayer graphene (BLG) with a tunable bandgap appears interesting as an alternative to graphene for practical applications, thus its transport properties are being actively pursued. Using density functional theory and perturbation analysis,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-11 Changwon Park , Junga Ryou , Suklyun Hong , Bobby Sumpter , Gunn Kim , Mina Yoon

The band structure and transport properties of massive Dirac Fermions in bilayer graphene with velocity modulation in space are investigated in presence of the previously created band gap. It is pointed out that the velocity engineering is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-27 Hosein Cheraghchi , Fatemeh Adinehvand

Recent advancements in laser technology have spurred growing interest in nonlinear and nonequilibrium phenomena. Here, we investigate the geometric aspects of quantum tunneling and the nonreciprocal response, particularly focusing on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Ibuki Terada , Sota Kitamura , Hiroshi Watanabe , Hiroaki Ikeda

We investigate the electronic properties of a hybrid system that comprises single-bilayer graphene structures subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field. Specifically, our focus is on the behavior exhibited by the zigzag boundaries of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Nadia Benlakhouy , Ahmed Jellal , Michael Schreiber

Bilayer graphene is normally a semimetal with parabolic dispersion, but a tunable bandgap up to few hundreds meV can be opened by breaking the symmetry between the layers through an external potential. Ab-initio calculations show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Simone De Liberato

We introduce a two-dimensional model of spin-1/2 Dirac fermions in graphene subjected to a highly tunable electric field, which exhibits super-Klein tunneling. The electric field can be continuously interpolated between two limiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Alonso Contreras-Astorga , Francisco Correa , Luis Inzunza , Vit Jakubsky , Raul Valencia-Torres

In this review, we provide an in-depth description of the physics of monolayer and bilayer graphene from a theorist's perspective. We discuss the physical properties of graphene in an external magnetic field, reflecting the chiral nature of…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-20 D. S. L. Abergel , V. Apalkov , J. Berashevich , K. Ziegler , Tapash Chakraborty

Strain qualitatively changes the low-energy band structure of bilayer graphene, leading to the appearance of a pair of low-energy Dirac cones near each corner of the Brillouin zone, and a Lifshitz transition, (a saddle point in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Diana A. Gradinar , Henning Schomerus , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We investigate the role of pseudospin structure of few-layer black phosphorus (BP) in interband tunneling properties in lateral BP junctions. We find that interband tunneling is critically dependent on junction directions because of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-03 Young Woo Choi , Hyoung Joon Choi

We investigate interaction effects in transport phenomena in bilayer graphene (BLG). For the minimal conductivity in pristine BLG, we find that the conductivity assumes a constant value in the limit $T\to 0$, with the first correction being…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 Jonathan Lux , Lars Fritz

Two-dimensional (2D) device structures have recently attracted considerable attention. Here, we show that most 2D device structures, regardless vertical or lateral, act as a lateral monolayer-bilayer-monolayer junction in their operation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-11 Junfeng Zhang , Weiyu Xie , Michael L. Agiorgousis , Duk-Hyun Choe , Vincent Meunier , Xiaohong Xu , Jijun Zhao , Shengbai Zhang

In gated bilayer graphene, topological zero-line modes (ZLMs) appear along lines separating regions with opposite valley Hall topologies. Although it is experimentally difficult to design the electric gates to realize ZLMs due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Sanyi You , Tao Hou , Zhenhua Qiao

The subgap conductivity of a normal-superconductor (NS) tunnel junction is thought to be due to tunneling of two electrons. There is a strong interference between these two electrons, originating from the spatial phase coherence in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 F. W. J. Hekking , Yu. V. Nazarov

Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferences in the quantum Hall regime can be achieved, provided that electrons are able to transmit between two edge channels in nanostructures. Pioneering approaches include quantum point contacts in 2DEG systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 Viet Hung Nguyen , Jean-Christophe Charlier

We numerically investigate the effect of Klein tunneling on the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in graphene rings using a tight-binding model with nearest-neighbor couplings. In order to introduce Klein tunneling into the system, we apply an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-31 Jörg Schelter , Dan Bohr , Björn Trauzettel

In a Bernal graphene bilayer, carbon atoms belong to two inequivalent sublattices A and B, with atoms that are coupled to the other layer by $p_\sigma$ bonds belonging to sublattice A and the other atoms belonging to sublattice B. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Ahmed Missaoui , Jouda Jemaa Khabthani , Nejm-Eddine Jaidane , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

The electronic conductance of graphene-based bilayer flake systems reveal different quantum interference effects, such as Fabry-P\'erot resonances and sharp Fano antiresonances on account of competing electronic paths through the device.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 D. Zambrano , L. Rosales , A. Latgé , M. Pacheco , P. A. Orellana

Electron collimation via a graphene pn-junction allows electrostatic control of ballistic electron trajectories akin to that of an optical circuit. Similar manipulation of novel correlated electronic phases in twisted-bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Wei Ren , Xi Zhang , Ziyan Zhu , Moosa Khan , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Efthimios Kaxiras , Mitchell Luskin , Ke Wang