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The electronic transmission and conductance of a gapped graphene superlattice were calculated by means of the transfer-matrix method. The system that we study consists of a sequence of electron-doped graphene as wells and hole-doped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Esmailpour , A. Esmailpour , Reza Asgari , E. Elahi , M. R. Rahimi Tabar

We present exact results for the electronic transport properties of graphene sheets connected to two metallic electrodes. Our results, obtained by transfer-matrix methods, are valid for all sheet widths and lengths. In the limit of large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Shijie Hu , Wei Du , Guiping Zhang , Miao Gao , Zhong-Yi Lu , Xiaoqun Wang

In the present work, we investigate how structural defects in graphene can change its transport properties. In particular, we show that breaking of the sublattice symmetry in a graphene monolayer overcomes the Klein effect, leading to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 C. Popovici , O. Oliveira , W. de Paula , T. Frederico

We provide a broad review of fundamental electronic properties of two-dimensional graphene with the emphasis on density and temperature dependent carrier transport in doped or gated graphene structures. A salient feature of our review is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 S. Das Sarma , Shaffique Adam , E. H. Hwang , Enrico Rossi

We theoretically investigate gate-defined graphene superlattices with broken inversion symmetry as a platform for realizing tunable valley dependent transport. Our analysis is motivated by recent experiments [C. Forsythe et al., Nat.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 Johannes H. J. Martiny , Kristen Kaasbjerg , Antti-Pekka Jauho

We show that the low-energy electronic structure of graphene under a one-dimensional inhomogeneous magnetic field can be mapped into that of graphene under an electric field or vice versa. As a direct application of this transformation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-31 Liang Zheng Tan , Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie

Realization of conically linear dispersion, termed as Dirac cones, has recently opened up exciting opportunities for high-performance devices that make use of the peculiar transport properties of the massless carriers. A good example of…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-03-21 Chia-Hui Lin , Wei Ku

By means of atomistic tight-binding calculations, we investigate the transport properties of vertical devices made of two incommensurately misoriented graphene layers. With a chosen transport direction (Ox-axis), we define two classes of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Viet Hung Nguyen , Philippe Dollfus

Relativistic massless charged particles in a two-dimensional conductor can be guided by a one-dimensional electrostatic potential, in an analogous manner to light guided by an optical fiber. We use a carbon nanotube to generate such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Austin Cheng , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Philip Kim , Jean-Damien Pillet

We formulate a low energy effective Hamiltonian to study superlattices in bilayer graphene (BLG) using a minimal model which supports quadratic band touching points. We show that a one dimensional (1D) periodic modulation of the chemical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-23 Matthew Killi , Si Wu , Arun Paramekanti

We report on systematic study of electronic transport in low-biased, disordered graphene nanowires. We reveal the emergence of unipolar transport as the defect concentration increases beyond 0.3\% where an almost insulating behaviour is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-17 Zakaria Moktadir , Shuojin Hang , Hiroshi Mizuta

Conductance of zigzag interfaces between graphene sheet and normal metal is investigated in the tight-binding approximation. Boundary conditions, valid for a variety of scattering problems, are constructed and applied to the normal metal --…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ya. M. Blanter , Ivar Martin

Gap opening at the Dirac point of the single-layer graphene with periodic scalar and vector potentials has been theoretically investigated under the continuum model. The symmetry analysis indicates that the two-fold degeneracy at the Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xin Lin , Hailong Wang , Hui Pan , Huaizhe Xu

The Landau level spectrum of graphene superlattices is studied using a tight-binding approach. We consider non-interacting particles moving on a hexagonal lattice with an additional one-dimensional superlattice made up of periodic square…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-28 G. Pal , W. Apel , L. Schweitzer

The electrical conductivity of suspended graphene has recently been measured for the first time, and found to behave as \sigma ~ \sqrt{|n|} as expected for Dirac quasiparticles at large carrier density. The charge inhomogeneity is strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-14 Joaquín E. Drut , Timo A. Lähde , Eero Tölö

Electronic band gap and transport in quasi-periodic graphene superlattice of double-periodic sequence have been investigated. It is found that such quasi-periodic structure can possess a zero-averaged wave number (zero-$\bar{k}$) gap which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-29 Xi Chen , Pei-Liang Zhao , Qi-Biao Zhu

The in-plane DC conductivity of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) is calculated using an expansion of the real-space Kubo-Bastin conductivity in terms of Chebyshev polynomials. We investigate within a tight-binding (TB) approach the transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 M. Anđelković , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

We study non-linear dc transport in graphene using a hydrodynamic approach and conclude that in clean samples the drift velocity saturates at a weakly density-dependent value v_{sat} ~ 10^7 cm/s. We show that saturation results from the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Bistritzer , A. H. MacDonald

We compute the optical conductivity for an out-of-plane deformation in graphene using an approach based on solutions of the Dirac equation in curved space. Different examples of periodic deformations along one direction translates into an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-05 A. J. Chaves , T. Frederico , O. Oliveira , W. de Paula , M. C. Santos

Van der Waals structures formed by aligning monolayer graphene with insulating layers of hexagonal boron nitride exhibit a moir\'e superlattice that is expected to break sublattice symmetry. Despite an energy gap of several tens of…

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