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We investigate thermoelectric transport in monolayer graphene across a finite complex barrier within a Landauer scattering framework. Solving the Dirac-Weyl problem exactly, we show that the imaginary part of the barrier renders the…

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Quantum point contacts (QPCs) are cornerstones of mesoscopic physics and central building blocks for quantum electronics. Although the Fermi wave-length in high-quality bulk graphene can be tuned up to hundreds of nanometers, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 B. Terrés , L. A. Chizhova , F. Libisch , J. Peiro , D. Jörger , S. Engels , A. Girschik , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , S. V. Rotkin , J. Burgdörfer , C. Stampfer

We investigate the transport properties of massive Dirac fermions subjected to uncorrelated scalar potential disorder, and mass disorder. Using a finite difference method, the conductance is calculated for a wide variety of combinations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Arman Duha , Mario Borunda

We investigate the scaling properties of the recently acquired fermionic non--linear $\sigma$--model which controls gapless diffusive modes in a two--dimensional disordered system of Dirac electrons beyond charge neutrality. The transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 Andreas Sinner , Klaus Ziegler

We evaluate the electronic transmission and conductance in bilayer graphene through a finite number of potential barriers. Further, we evaluate the dispersion relation in a bilayer graphene superlattice with a periodic potential applied to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-21 M. Barbier , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters , J. Milton Pereira

Whereas massless Dirac fermions in monolayer graphene exhibit Klein tunneling when passing through a potential barrier upon normal incidence, such a barrier totally reflects massive Dirac fermions in bilayer graphene due to difference in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-09 Neetu Agrawal , Sameer Grover , Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

In the effective mass approximation, electronic property in graphene can be characterized by the relativistic Dirac equation. Within such a continuum model we investigate the electronic transport through graphene waveguides formed by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Haidong Li , Lin Wang , Zhihuan Lan , Yisong Zheng

We performed detailed studies of the current-voltage characteristics in graphene/MoS2/metal vertical field-effect transistors. Owing to its low density of states, the Fermi level in graphene is very sensitive to its carrier density and thus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Rai Moriya , Takehiro Yamaguchi , Yoshihisa Inoue , Yohta Sata , Sei Morikawa , Satoru Masubuchi , Tomoki Machida

The graphene is a native two-dimensional crystal material consisting of a single sheet of carbon atoms. In this unique one-atom-thick material, the electron transport is ballistic and is described by a quantum relativistic-like Dirac…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniela Dragoman , Mircea Dragoman

We report two-dimensional quantum transport in SrMnBi$_2$ single crystals. The linear energy dispersion leads to the unusual nonsaturated linear magnetoresistance since all Dirac fermions occupy the lowest Landau level in the quantum limit.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 Kefeng Wang , D. Graf , Hechang Lei , S. W. Tozer , C. Petrovic

By taking into account the full four band energy spectrum, we calculate the transmission probability and conductance of electrons across symmetric and asymmetric double potential barrier with a confined interlayer potential difference in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-22 Hasan A. Alshehab , Hocine Bahlouli , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

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

The chemical stability of graphene and other free-standing two-dimensional crystals means that they can be stacked in different combinations to produce a new class of functional materials, designed for specific device applications. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-03 L. Britnell , R. V. Gorbachev , A. K. Geim , L. A. Ponomarenko , A. Mishchenko , M. T. Greenaway , T. M. Fromhold , K. S. Novoselov , L. Eaves

We study the behavior of charge carriers in graphene in inhomogeneous perpendicular magnetic fields. We consider two types of one-dimensional magnetic profiles, uniform in one direction: a sequence of N magnetic barriers, and a sequence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-27 L. Dell'Anna , A. De Martino

The Dirac point and linear band structure in Graphene bestow it with remarkable electronic and optical properties, a subject of intense ongoing research. Explanations of high electronic mobility in graphene, often invoke the masslessness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Chaitanya K. Ullal , Jian Shi , Ravishankar Sundararaman

We study the transmission of Dirac fermions in graphene through a tilted barrier potential in the presence of a laser field of frequency $\omega$. By using Floquet theory, we solve the Dirac equation and then obtain the energy spectrum. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Rachid El Aitouni , Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal

The inherent asymmetry of the electric transport in graphene is attributed to Klein tunneling across barriers defined by $\textit{pn}$-interfaces between positively and negatively charged regions. By combining conductance and shot noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-04 Antti Laitinen , G. S. Paraoanu , Mika Oksanen , Monica F. Craciun , Saverio Russo , Edouard Sonin , Pertti Hakonen

We consider systems described by the two-dimensional Dirac equation where the Fermi velocity is inhomogeneous as a consequence of mechanical deformations. We show that the mechanical deformations can lead to deflection and focusing of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Alonso Contreras-Astorga , Vit Jakubsky , Alfredo Raya

We study the electronic transport properties of dual-gated bilayer graphene devices. We focus on the regime of low temperatures and high electric displacement fields, where we observe a clear exponential dependence of the resistance as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Thiti Taychatanapat , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Graphene has proven to host outstanding mesoscopic effects involving massless Dirac quasiparticles travelling ballistically resulting in the current flow exhibiting light-like behaviour. A new branch of 2D electronics inspired by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Gaetano Calogero , Nick R. Papior , Peter Bøggild , Mads Brandbyge