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We have investigated a new feature of impurity cyclotron resonances common to various localized potentials of graphene. A localized potential can interact with a magnetic field in an unexpected way in graphene. It can lead to formation of…

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Graphene electrodes provide a suitable alternative to metal contacts in molecular conduction nanojunctions. Here, we propose to use graphene electrodes as a platform for effective photon assisted tunneling through molecular conduction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Boris Fainberg

Klein tunneling refers to the absence of normal backscattering of electrons even under the case of high potential barriers. At the barrier interface, the perfect matching of electron and hole wavefunctions enables a unit transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Can Yesilyurt , Seng Ghee Tan , Gengchiau Liang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

We study tunneling of charge carriers in single- and bilayer graphene. We propose an explanation for non-zero "magic angles" with 100% transmission for the case of symmetric potential barrier, as well as for their almost-survival for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 V. Kleptsyn , A. Okunev , I. Schurov , D. Zubov , M. I. Katsnelson

Skyrmions are topologically protected spin textures, characterized by a topological winding number N , that occur spontaneously in some magnetic materials. Recent experiments have demonstrated the capability to grow graphene on top Fe/Ir, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 J. L. Lado , J. Fernandez-Rossier

We articulate the challenges and opportunities of unconventional devices using the photon like flow of electrons in graphene, such as Graphene Klein Tunnel (GKT) transistors. The underlying physics is the employment of momentum rather than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-01 Mirza M. Elahi , K. M. Masum Habib , Ke Wang , Gil-Ho Lee , Philip Kim , Avik W. Ghosh

We studied the transport properties of electrons in graphene as they are scattered by a double barrier potential in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field. We computed the transmission coefficient and Goos-H\"anchen like shifts for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

A remarkable property of intrinsic graphene is that upon doping, electrons and holes travel through the monolayer thick material with constant velocity which does not depend on energy up to about $0.3$ eV (Dirac fermions), as though the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Dipendra Dahal , Godfrey Gumbs

The conductance and the Fano factor in a graphene sheet in the ballistic regime are calculated. The electrostatic potential in the sheet is modeled by a trapezoid barrier, which allows to use the exact solution of the Dirac equation in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. B. Sonin

Motivated by a recent first principles prediction of an anisotropic cubic Dirac semi-metal in a real material Tl(TeMo)$_3$, we study the behavior of electrons tunneling through a potential barrier in such systems. To clearly investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Ahmed Bouhlal , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli , Michael Vogl

In this review article we discuss the recent progress in studying ballistic transport for charge carriers in graphene through highly inhomogenous magnetic field known as magnetic barrier in combination with gate voltage induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-12 Neetu Agrawal , Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

The absence of a band-gap in graphene limits the gate modulation of its electron conductivity, both in regular graphene as well as in PN junctions, where electrostatic barriers prove transparent to Klein tunneling. We demonstrate a novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Redwan Sajjad , Avik Ghosh

Electron supercollimation, in which a wavepacket is guided to move undistorted along a selected direction, is a highly desirable property that has yet been realized experimentally. Disorder in general is expected to inhibit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 SangKook Choi , Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie

When a single-layer graphene sheet is contacted with metallic electrodes, tunnel barriers are formed as a result of the doping of graphene by the metal in the contact region. If the Fermi energy level is modulated by a gate voltage, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-11 Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

We study transport properties of a phosphorene monolayer in the presence of single and multiple potential barriers of height $U_0$ and width $d$, using both continuum and microscopic lattice models, and show that the nature of electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Sangita De Sarkar , Amit Agarwal , K. Sengupta

Tunnelling of electrons in graphene-based junctions is studied theoretically. Graphene is assumed to be deposited either directly on a ferromagnetic insulator or on a few atomic layers of boron nitride which separate graphene from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Jędrzej Tepper , Józef Barnaś

In this article, we employ the transfer matrix method (TMM) to analytically explore the impact of uniaxial strain on electron scattering in graphene under locally periodic and super-periodic electrostatic potential. Our study reveals that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Sudhanshu Shekhar , Bhabani Prasad Mandal , Anirban Dutta

We employ the tight-binding propagation method to study Klein tunneling and quantum interference in large graphene systems. With this efficient numerical scheme, we model the propagation of a wave packet through a potential barrier and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 R. Logemann , K. J. A. Reijnders , T. Tudorovskiy , M. I. Katsnelson , Shengjun Yuan

A graphene bilayer is known to perfectly reflect normally incident electrons due to their chirality. This is similar to Klein tunneling, which, in a monolayer, is instead responsible for perfect transmission at normal incidence. Stacking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-28 A. Daboussi , L. Mandhour , J. N. Fuchs , S. Jaziri

Many striking non-equilibrium phenomena have been discovered or predicted in optically-driven quantum solids, ranging from light-induced superconductivity to Floquet-engineered topological phases. These effects are expected to lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-13 J. W. McIver , B. Schulte , F. -U. Stein , T. Matsuyama , G. Jotzu , G. Meier , A. Cavalleri