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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 Dirac equation is a paradigmatic model that describes a range of intriguing properties of relativistic spin-1/2 particles, from the existence of antiparticles to Klein tunneling. However, the Dirac-like equations have found application…

Within the tight binding approximation, we study the dependence of the electronic band structure and of the optical conductivity of a graphene single layer on the modulus and direction of applied uniaxial strain. While the Dirac cone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-15 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

The metal-graphene contact resistance is a technological bottleneck for the realization of viable graphene based electronics. We report a useful model to find the gate tunable components of this resistance determined by the sequential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-03 Ferney A. Chaves , David Jiménez , Abhay A. Sagade , Wonjae Kim , Juha Riikonen , Harri Lipsanen , Daniel Neumaier

We theoretically investigate the electronic transport properties of curved graphene waveguides by employing non-equilibrium Green's function techniques. We systematically study the dependence of the confined waveguide modes on the potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Vahid Mosallanejad , Ke Wang , Zhenhua Qiao , Guoping Guo

In graphene, long-wavelength deformations that result in elastic shear strain couple to the low-energy Dirac electrons as pseudogauge fields. Using a scalable tight-binding model, we consider analogs to magnetotransport in mesoscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Christophe De Beule , Jia-Tong Shi , Aitor Garcia-Ruiz , Denis Kochan , Klaus Richter , Ming-Hao Liu

Spintronics involves the development of low-dimensional electronic systems with potential use in quantum-based computation. In graphene, there has been significant progress in improving spin transport characteristics by encapsulation and…

Graphene-based vertical heterostructures, particularly stacks incorporated with other layered materials, are promising for nanoelectronics. The stacking of two model Dirac materials, graphene and topological insulator, can considerably…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-24 Liang Zhang , Yuan Yan , Han-Chun Wu , Dapeng Yu , Zhi-Min Liao

We have theoretically investigated the properties of electronic transport in graphene heterostructures, which are consisted of two different graphene superlattices with one-dimensional periodic potentials. It is found that such…

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

We study the electronic and transport properties of a graphene-based superlattice theoretically by using an effective Dirac equation. The superlattice consists of a periodic potential applied on a single-layer graphene deposited on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Jonas R. F. Lima

We review chiral (Klein) tunneling in single-layer and bilayer graphene and present its semiclassical theory, including the Berry phase and the Maslov index. Peculiarities of the chiral tunneling are naturally explained in terms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-01 T. Tudorovskiy , K. J. A. Reijnders , M. I. Katsnelson

Graphene provides a canonical setting for Floquet band engineering, where circularly polarized light can dynamically open topological gaps at Dirac points and generate nonequilibrium Hall responses. Here we show that uniaxial strain and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Yu-Wen Xu , Xiaolin Wan , Zi-Ming Wang , Rui Wang , Dong-Hui Xu

Motivated by the recent development of the quantum twisting microscope, we formulate a theory of elastic momentum-resolved tunneling across a planar tunnel junction between a monolayer graphene layer situated on a tip and a twisting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Nemin Wei , Felix von Oppen , Leonid I. Glazman

We investigate photon tunneling in a pair of coupled inverted circular split-ring microwave resonators with four discrete chiral orientations. By varying the spacing between the resonators, we observe strong modulation of the transmission…

We study theoretically the lasing synchronization of the two arrays of lasers with the complex mode dispersion, separated by a spectrally detuned barrier. We demonstrate that for lasing at the Dirac point, the synchronization persists for…

The electric conductance of a strip of undoped graphene increases in the presence of a disorder potential, which is smooth on atomic scales. The phenomenon is attributed to impurity-assisted resonant tunneling of massless Dirac fermions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 M. Titov

The phase space for graphene's minimum conductivity $\sigma_\mathrm{min}$ is mapped out using Landauer theory modified for scattering using Fermi's Golden Rule, as well as the Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) simulation with a Monte…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 Redwan N. Sajjad , Frank Tseng , K. M. Masum Habib , Avik W. Ghosh

The variational approach to QCD in Coulomb gauge developed previously by the T\"ubingen group is improved by enlarging the space of quark trial vacuum wave functionals through a new Dirac structure in the quark-gluon coupling. Our ansatz…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-09 P. Vastag , H. Reinhardt , D. Campagnari

The unconventional properties of graphene, with a massless Dirac band dispersion and large coherence properties, have raised a large interest for applications in nanoelectronics. In this work, we emphasize that graphene two dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-27 Pierre Darancet , Valerio Olevano , Didier Mayou

Dielectric waveguide (DWG) interconnects frequently utilize multimode waveguides due to their low dispersion in the fundamental mode. However, these links are more vulnerable to cross-modal coupling that significantly impacts their overall…