English
Related papers

Related papers: High efficiency switching using graphene based ele…

200 papers

We develop an analytical mode-matching technique for the tight-binding model to describe electron transport across graphene P-N junctions. This method shares the simplicity of the conventional mode-matching technique for the low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-29 Shu-Hui Zhang , Wen Yang

The motion of massless Dirac-electrons in graphene mimics the propagation of photons. This makes it possible to control the charge-carriers with components based on geometrical-optics and has led to proposals for an all-graphene…

We study electron transport in a strained graphene sheet subjected to a sequence of $N$ electrostatic and magnetic barriers. Employing a modified and improved transfer-matrix framework, we examine how the transmission and reflection…

We theoretically investigate the spectrum of a single electron double quantum dot, defined by top gates in a graphene with a substrate induced gap. We examine the effects of electric and magnetic fields on the spectrum of localized states,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 Martin Raith , Christian Ertler , Peter Stano , Michael Wimmer , Jaroslav Fabian

Vertical graphene-based device concepts that rely on quantum mechanical tunneling are intensely being discussed in literature for applications in electronics and optoelectronics. In this work, the carrier transport mechanisms in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-24 Sam Vaziri , Melkamu Belete , Eugenio Dentoni Litta , Anderson Smith , Grzegorz Lupina , Max C. Lemme , Mikael Östling

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 study quantum tunneling through a potential barrier whose height fluctuates in time and is modeled by Gaussian white noise. We map the stochastic dynamics onto an equivalent time-independent Lindblad equation for the density matrix,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Kamal Azaidaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli , A. Al Luhaibi , Michael Vogl

Electrostatic confinement of charge carriers in bilayer graphene provides a unique platform for carbon-based spin, charge or exchange qubits. By exploiting the possibility to induce a band gap with electrostatic gating, we form a versatile…

Growth of graphene on monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides presents opening on band gap and giant spin-orbit coupling which paves the way to achieve a useful hybrid structure for electronics and spintronics applications. Increase of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 S. F. Ebadzadeh , H. Goudarzi , M. Khezerlou

The honeycomb lattice of graphene is a unique two-dimensional (2D) system where the quantum mechanics of electrons is equivalent to that of relativistic Dirac fermions. Novel nanometer-scale behavior in this material, including electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-29 Yuanbo Zhang , Victor W. Brar , Feng Wang , Caglar Girit , Yossi Yayon , Melissa Panlasigui , Alex Zettl , Michael F. Crommie

Graphene, in addition to its unique electronic and optical properties, revealed unusually high thermal conductivity. The fact that thermal conductivity of large enough graphene sheets should be higher than that of basal planes of bulk…

In a continuous search for the energy-efficient electronic switches, a great attention is focused on tunnel field-effect transistors (TFETs) demonstrating an abrupt dependence of the source-drain current on the gate voltage. Among all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 G. Alymov , V. Vyurkov , V. Ryzhii , D. Svintsov

Thermodynamic properties of quasiparticles in a graphene-based structures are investigated. Two graphene superconducting layers (one superconducting component is placed on the top layeredgraphene structure and the other component in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-26 Dima Bolmatov

Graphene quantum dots (QDs) are intensively studied as platforms for the next generation of quantum electronic devices. Fine tuning of the transport properties in monolayer graphene QDs, in particular with respect to the independent…

Today the availability of high mobility graphene up to room temperature makes ballistic transport in nanodevices achievable. In particular, p-n-p transistor in the ballistic regime gives access to the Klein tunneling physics and allows the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Quentin Wilmart , Salim Berada , David Torrin , V. Hung Nguyen , Gwendal Fève , Jean-Marc Berroir , Philippe Dollfus , Bernard Plaçais

Recent experiments demonstrated that proton transport through graphene electrodes can be accelerated by over an order of magnitude with low intensity illumination. Here we show that this photo-effect can be suppressed for a tuneable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 S. Huang , E. Griffin , J. Cai , B. Xin , J. Tong , Y. Fu , V. Kravets , F. M. Peeters , M. Lozada-Hidalgo

We discuss the non-radiative heat transfer in non-equilibrium double layer graphene system. We show that at the neutrality point the heat exchange is dominated by the inter-layer plasmon modes and derive analytic expressions for the heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Xuzhe Ying , Alex Kamenev

Few layer graphene systems such as Bernal stacked bilayer and rhombohedral (ABC-) stacked trilayer offer the unique possibility to open an electric field tunable energy gap. To date, this energy gap has been experimentally confirmed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 T. Khodkov , I Khrapach , M. F. Craciun , S. Russo

The presence of interfaces in semiconductor devices substantially hinders thermal transport, contributing disproportionately to the overall thermal resistance. However, approaches to enhance interfacial thermal transport remain scarce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Yizhe Liu , Bo Sun

We propose a novel ultrafast electronic switching device based on dual-graphene electron waveguides, in analogy to the optical dual-channel waveguide device. The design utilizes the principle of coherent quantum mechanical tunneling of Rabi…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Wei Huang , Shi-Jun Liang , Elica Kyoseva , Lay Kee Ang