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We study tunneling across a strain-induced superlattice in graphene. In studying the effect of applied strain on the low-lying Dirac-like spectrum, both a shift of the Dirac points in reciprocal space, and a deformation of the Dirac cones…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

The electronic transport properties and band structures for the graphene-based one-dimensional (1D) superlattices with periodic squared potentials are investigated. It is found that a new Dirac point is formed, which is exactly located at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-25 Li-Gang Wang , Shi-Yao Zhu

Superlattice in graphene generates extra Dirac points in the band structure and their number depends on the superlattice potential strength. Here, we have created a lateral superlattice in a graphene device with a tunable barrier height…

Lateral superlattices have attracted major interest as this may allow one to modify spectra of two dimensional electron systems and, ultimately, create materials with tailored electronic properties. Previously, it proved difficult to…

Recent studies show that periodic potentials can generate superlattice Dirac points at energies in graphene (is the Fermi velocity of graphene and G is the reciprocal superlattice vector). Here, we perform scanning tunneling microscopy and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-21 Hui Yan , Zhao-Dong Chu , Wei Yan , Mengxi Liu , Lan Meng , Mudan Yang , Yide Fan , Jiang Wang , Rui-Fen Dou , Yanfeng Zhang , Zhongfan Liu , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

One-dimensional graphene superlattice subjected to strong Kronig-Penney (KP) potential is promising for achieving electron lensing effect, while previous studies utilizing the modulated dielectric gates can only yield a moderate, spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-05 Tianlin Li , Hanying Chen , Kun Wang , Yifei Hao , Le Zhang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Xia Hong

A model of a superlattice consisting of alternating strips of single-layer and bilayer graphene is proposed, whose parameters of the energy spectrum can be controlled by changing the external electric field perpendicular to the surface of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-16 V. L. Abdrakhmanov , P. V. Badikova D. V. Zav'yalov , V. I. Konchenkov , S. V. Kryuchkov

Energy band structure of the bilayer graphene superlattices with $\delta$-function magnetic barriers and zero average magnetic flux is studied within the four-band continuum model, using the transfer matrix method. The periodic magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-29 C. Huy Pham , T. Thuong Nguyen , V. Lien Nguyen

Several research groups have reported on the observation of superconductivity in bilayer graphene structures where single atomic layers of graphene are stacked and then twisted at angles $\theta$ forming Moir\'e superlattices. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-15 Evgueni F. Talantsev , Ratu C. Mataira , Wayne P. Crump

Strong band engineering in two-dimensional (2D) materials can be achieved by introducing moir\'e superlattices, leading to the emergence of various novel quantum phases with promising potential for future applications. Presented works to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 Shimin Cao , Mantang Chen , Jiang Zeng , Ning Ma , Runjie Zheng , Ya Feng , Shili Yan , Jing Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , X. C. Xie , Jian-Hao Chen

We study the band structure of graphene's Dirac-Weyl quasi-particles in a one-dimensional magnetic superlattice formed by a periodic sequence of alternating magnetic barriers. The spectrum and the nature of the states strongly depend on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Luca Dell'Anna , Alessandro De Martino

We address the problem of barrier tunneling in the two-dimensional T_3 lattice (dice lattice). In particular we focus on the low-energy, long-wavelength approximation for the Hamiltonian of the system, where the lattice can be described by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-29 D. F. Urban , D. Bercioux , M. Wimmer , W. Häusler

Patterning graphene with a spatially-periodic potential provides a powerful means to modify its electronic properties. Dramatic effects have been demonstrated in twisted bilayers where coupling to the resulting moir\'e-superlattice yields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Yutao Li , Scott Dietrich , Carlos Forsythe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Pilkyung Moon , Cory R. Dean

We study the electronic states of graphene in piecewise constant potentials using the continuum Dirac equation appropriate at low energies, and a transfer matrix method. For superlattice potentials, we identify patterns of induced Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. P. Arovas , L. Brey , H. A. Fertig , Eun-Ah Kim , K. Ziegler

We compute the transmission probability through rectangular potential barriers and p-n junctions in the presence of a magnetic and electric fields in bilayer graphene taking into account contributions from the full four bands of the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 Ahmed Jellal , Ilham Redouani , Hocine Bahlouli

General properties of long wavelength triangular graphene superlattice are studied. It is shown that Dirac points with and without gaps can arise at a number of high symmetry points of the Brillouin Zone. The existence of gaps can lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-12 F. Guinea , T. Low

We study transport in undoped graphene in the presence of a superlattice potential both within a simple continuum model and using numerical tight-binding calculations. The continuum model demonstrates that the conductivity of the system is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-31 P. Burset , A. Levy Yeyati , L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

We review recent work on superlattices in monolayer and bilayer graphene. We highlight the role of the quasiparticle chirality in generating new Dirac fermion modes with tunable anisotropic velocities in one dimensional (1D) superlattices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Matthew Killi , Si Wu , Arun Paramekanti

The unusual transport properties of graphene are the direct consequence of a peculiar bandstructure near the Dirac point. We determine the shape of the pi bands and their characteristic splitting, and the transition from a pure 2D to…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Taisuke Ohta , Aaron Bostwick , J. L. McChesney , Thomas Seyller , Karsten Horn , Eli Rotenberg

We analyze the energy spectrum of graphene in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and a unidirectionally periodic Zeeman field, focusing on the stability and location of Dirac points it may support. It is found that the Dirac points at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Luis Brey , A. R. Carvalho , H. A. Fertig