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In the recent years many researches were performed about graphene. Graphene is always considered a half metal or a zero gap semiconductor. In the last year new experiments were done about graphene on boron nitride and they obtained an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Salvatore Croce

The electron hole asymmetry has been measured in natural graphite using magneto-optical absorption measurements. A splitting is observed for the transitions at both the $K$-point and the $H$-point of the Brillouin zone of graphite where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-14 P. Plochocka , P. Y. Solane , R. J. Nicholas , J. M. Schneider , B. A. Piot , D. K. Maude , O. Portugall , G. L. J. A. Rikken

We present temperature-dependent magneto-transport experiments around the charge neutrality point in graphene and determine the amplitude of potential fluctuations $s$ responsible for the formation of electron-hole puddles. The experimental…

Ballistic semiconductor structures have allowed the realization of optics-like phenomena in electronics, including magnetic focusing and lensing. An extension that appears unique to graphene is to use both n and p carrier types to create…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-27 J. R. Williams , Tony Low , M. S. Lundstrom , C. M. Marcus

The characteristics of energy band spectrum of armchair graphene nanoribbons in presence of line defect are analyzed within a simple non-interacting tight-binding framework. In metallic nanoribbons an energy gap may or may not appear in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-19 Paramita Dutta , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

Employing the low-energy effective theory alongside a combination of analytical and numerical techniques, we explore the Landau level collapse phenomenon, uncovering previously undisclosed features. We consider both finite-width graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 A. A. Herasymchuk , S. G. Sharapov , V. P. Gusynin

The optical conductivity of graphene nanoribbons is analytical and exactly derived. It is shown that the absence of translation invariance along the transverse direction allows considerable intra-band absorption in a narrow frequency window…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-21 F. Hipolito , A. J. Chaves , R. M. Ribeiro , M. I. Vasilevskiy , Vitor M. Pereira , N. M. R. Peres

Motivated by recent advances in fabricating graphene nanostructures, we find that an electron can be trapped in Z-shaped graphene nanoconstriction with zigzag edges. The central section of the constriction operates as a single-level quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 Adam Rycerz

We present electrical transport measurements of a van-der-Waals heterostructure consisting of a graphene nanoribbon separated by a thin boron nitride layer from a micron-sized graphene sheet. The interplay between the two layers is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-29 D. Bischoff , M. Eich , A. Varlet , P. Simonet , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

The formation of quantum Hall channels inside the bulk of graphene is studied using various contact and gate geometries. p-n junctions are created along the longitudinal direction of samples, and enhanced conductance is observed in the case…

We present first-principles calculations on electron transport through Na nanowires at finite bias voltages. The nanowire exhibits a nonlinear current-voltage characteristic and negative differential conductance. The latter is explained by…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Shigeru Tsukamoto , Kikuji Hirose

Linear conductance of graphene-based p-n junctions with Rashba spin-orbit coupling is considered theoretically. A square potential step is used to model the junctions, while the coupling is introduced in terms of the Kane-Mele model (C.L.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-29 Marek Rataj , Józef Barnaś

In this paper, we study the conductance of the graphene nanoribbons(GNRs) in the presence of the Stone-Wales(S-W) reconstruction, using the transfer matrix method. The ribbon is connected with semi-infinite quantum wires as the leads. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-07 Jing Wang , Guiping Zhang , Fei Ye , Xiaoqun Wang

We report a first-principles based study of mesoscopic quantum transport in chemically doped graphene nanoribbons with a width up to 10 nm. The occurrence of quasibound states related to boron impurities results in mobility gaps as large as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-09 Blanca Biel , François Triozon , X. Blase , Stephan Roche

We propose a unique way to control both bandgap and the magnetic properties of nanoscale graphene, which might prove highly beneficial for application in nanoelectronic and spintronic devices. We have shown that chemical doping by nitrogen…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Julia Berashevich , Tapash Chakraborty

We study electronic transport in graphene nanoribbons with rough edges. We first consider a model of weak disorder that corresponds to an armchair ribbon whose width randomly changes by a single unit cell size. We find that in this case,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Ivar Martin , Ya. M. Blanter

Recent experiments have reported evidence of dominant electron-hole scattering in the electric conductivity of suspended bilayer graphene near charge neutrality. According to these experiments, plots of the electric conductivity as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Mohammad Zarenia , Shaffique Adam , Giovanni Vignale

We investigate bilayers of nanoporous graphene (NPG), laterally bonded carbon nanoribbons, and graphene. The electronic and transport properties are explored as a function of the interlayer twist angle using an atomistic tight-binding model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Xabier Diaz de Cerio , Aleksander Bach Lorentzen , Mads Brandbyge , Aran Garcia-Lekue

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) including interlayer interaction and rotational disorder shows anomalous electron transport as a function of twist-angles (tAs). In this work, we address the electronic properties and electron transport of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Farzaneh Shayeganfar , Ali Ramazani , Nicholas X Fang

The conduction electrons in graphene promise new opportunities to access the region of strong many-body electron-electron correlations. Extremely high quality, atomically flat two-dimensional electron sheets and quasi-one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 David Neilson , Andrea Perali , Mohammad Zarenia