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We have developed a device fabrication process to pattern graphene into nanostructures of arbitrary shape and control their electronic properties using local electrostatic gates. Electronic transport measurements have been used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-14 Barbaros Özyilmaz , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Dmitri Efetov , Dmitri A. Abanin , Leonid S. Levitov , Philip Kim

We report the fabrication of electrostatically defined nanostructures in encapsulated bilayer graphene, with leakage resistances below depletion gates as high as $R \sim 10~$G$\Omega$. This exceeds previously reported values of $R =~$10 -…

Probing and controlling the valley degree of freedom in graphene systems by transport measurements has been a major challenge to fully exploit the unique properties of this two-dimensional material. In this theoretical work, we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Feng-Wu Chen , Nin-Yuan Lue , Mei-Yin Chou , Yu-Shu G. Wu

We study theoretically the electron current across a monolayer graphene/hexagonal boron nitride/bilayer graphene tunnelling junction in an external magnetic field perpendicular to the layers. We show that change in effective tunnelling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 J. J . P. Thompson , D. J. Leech , M. Mucha-Kruczyński

In bilayer graphene, electrostatic confinement can be realized by a suitable design of top and back gate electrodes. We measure electronic transport through a bilayer graphene quantum dot, which is laterally confined by gapped regions and…

Bernal bilayer graphene exhibits a band gap that is tunable through the infrared with an electric field. We show that sublattice odd commensurate twisted bilayer graphene (C-TBG) exhibits a band gap that is tunable through the terahertz…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Spenser Talkington , Eugene J. Mele

First-principles calculations can accurately describe electron-phonon (e-ph) interactions and electronic transport in a wide range of materials, but are currently limited to unit cells with up to $\sim$100 atoms due to computational cost.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-17 David J. Abramovitch , Marco Bernardi

We study the effects of site dilution disorder on the electronic properties in graphene multilayers, in particular the bilayer and the infinite stack. The simplicity of the model allows for an easy implementation of the coherent potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-03 Johan Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres

Interlayer sliding, together with twist angle, is a crucial parameter that defines the atomic registry and thus determines the properties of two-dimensional (2D) material homobilayers. Here, we theoretically demonstrate that controlled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jie Pan , Huanhuan Wang , Lin Zou , Xiaoyu Wang , Lihao Zhang , Xueyan Dong , Haibo Xie , Yi Ding , Yuze Zhang , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Shuxi Wang , Zhe Wang

An established way of realizing topologically protected states in a two-dimensional electron gas is by applying a perpendicular magnetic field thus creating quantum Hall edge channels. In electrostatically gapped bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Fabian R. Geisenhof , Felix Winterer , Anna M. Seiler , Jakob Lenz , Ivar Martin , R. Thomas Weitz

A strong in-plane magnetic field drastically alters the low-energy spectrum of bilayer graphene by separating the parabolic energy dispersion into two linear Dirac cones. The effect of this dramatic change on the transport properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 M. Van der Donck , F. M. Peeters , B. Van Duppen

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

Bilayer graphene in a perpendicular electric field can host domain walls between regions of reversed field direction or interlayer stacking. The gapless modes propagating along these domain walls, while not strictly topological,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 Benjamin J. Wieder , Fan Zhang , C. L. Kane

Twisted graphene bilayers provide a versatile platform to engineer metamaterials with novel emergent properties by exploiting the resulting geometric moir\'{e} superlattice. Such superlattices are known to host bulk valley currents at tiny…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 T. M. R. Wolf , J. L. Lado , G. Blatter , O. Zilberberg

We construct a two-channel scattering model for the triangular network of valley Hall states in interlayer-biased minimally twisted bilayer graphene from symmetry arguments and investigate electronic transport in a four-terminal setup. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Christophe De Beule , Fernando Dominguez , Patrik Recher

We investigate the ballistic electron transport in a monolayer graphene with configurational averaged impurities, located between two clean graphene leads. It is shown that the electron transmission are strongly dependent on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-28 Juan Sebastian Ardenghi , Pablo Bechthold , Estela Gonzalez , Paula Jasen , Alfredo Juan

Using the B\"{u}ttiker-Landauer formulation of transport theory in the linear response regime, the valley currents and non-local resistances of bilayer graphene nanostructures with broken inversion symmetry are calculated. It is shown that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Mohammadhadi Azari , George Kirczenow

We study the conductance of a biased bilayer graphene flake with monolayer nanoribbon contacts. We find that the transmission through the bilayer ribbon strongly depends on the applied bias between the two layers and on the relative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-18 J. W. González , H. Santos , E. Prada , L. Brey , L. Chico

The coupling of charge carrier motion and pseudospin via chirality for massless Dirac fermions in monolayer graphene has generated dramatic consequences, such as the unusual quantum Hall effect and Klein tunneling. In bilayer graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Kyunghoon Lee , Seunghyun Lee , Yun Suk Eo , Cagliyan Kurdak , Zhaohui Zhong

We investigate the transport properties of a junction consisting of an electron-hole bilayer in contact with normal and superconducting leads. The electron-hole bilayer is considered as a semi-metal with two electronic bands. We assume that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-09 D. Bercioux , T. M. Klapwijk , F. S. Bergeret