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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

Realization of logic circuits in graphene with an energy gap (EG) remains one of the main challenges for graphene electronics. We found that large transport EGs (>100 meV) can be fulfilled in dual-gated bilayer graphene underneath a simple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-25 Song-Lin Li , Hisao Miyazaki , Hidefumi Hiura , Chuan Liu , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi

Measurement and theory of the two-terminal conductance of monolayer and bilayer graphene in the quantum Hall regime are compared. We examine features of conductance as a function of gate voltage that allow monolayer, bilayer, and gapped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-24 J. R. Williams , D. A. Abanin , L. DiCarlo , L. S. Levitov , C. M. Marcus

We investigated a suspended bilayer graphene where the bottom (top) layer is doped by boron (nitrogen) substitutional atoms by using Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. We found that at high dopant concentration (one B-N pair…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-25 Daniele Giofré , Davide Ceresoli , Mario I. Trioni

We report on the fabrication and measurement of nanoscale devices based on bilayer graphene sandwiched between hexagonal boron nitride bottom and top gate dielectrics. The top gates are patterned such that constrictions and islands can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-10 Augustinus , M. Goossens , Stefanie C. M. Driessen , Tim A. Baart , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen

We develop a theory for density, disorder, and temperature dependent electrical conductivity of bilayer graphene in the presence of long-range charged impurity scattering as well as an additional short-range disorder of independent origin,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang , E. Rossi

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 -…

The tight-binding model of bilayer graphene is used to find the gap between the conduction and valence bands, as a function of both the gate voltage and as the doping by donors or acceptors. The total Hartree energy is minimized and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. A. Falkovsky

Electron transport in bilayer graphene is studied by using a first principles analysis and theMonte Carlo simulation under conditions relevant to potential applications. While the intrinsic properties are found to be much less desirable in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 X. Li , K. M. Borysenko , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , K. W. Kim

We demonstrate a tunneling and rectification behavior in bilayer graphene. A stepped dielectric top gate creates a spatially modulated electric field, which opens the band gap in the graphene and produces an insulating region at the p-n…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-19 Hisao Miyazaki , Michael Lee , Song-Lin Li , Hidefumi Hiura , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi , Akinobu Kanda

We report tunneling spectroscopy experiments on a bilayer graphene double quantum dot device that can be tuned by all-graphene lateral gates. The diameter of the two quantum dots are around 50 nm and the constrictions acting as tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Christian Volk , Stefan Fringes , Bernat Terrés , Jan Dauber , Stephan Engels , Stefan Trellenkamp , Christoph Stampfer

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

In this paper, we study the quantum properties of a bilayer graphene with (asymmetry) line defects. The localized states are found around the line defects. Thus, the line defects on one certain layer of the bilayer graphene can lead to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Xiao-Ming Zhao , Ya-Jie Wu , Chan Chen , Ying Liang , Su-Peng Kou

Bilayer graphene has the very interesting property of an energy gap tunable with the vertical electric field. We propose an analytical model for a bilayer-graphene field-effect transistor, suitable for exploring the design parameter space…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Martina Cheli , Gianluca Fiori , Giuseppe Iannaccone

Bilayer graphene bears an eight-fold degeneracy due to spin, valley and layer symmetry, allowing for a wealth of broken symmetry states induced by magnetic or electric fields, by strain, or even spontaneously by interaction. We study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-15 F. Freitag , J. Trbovic , M. Weiss , C. Schönenberger

The tight-binding model of a graphene bilayer is used to find the gap between the conduction and valence bands, as a function of both the gate voltage and as the doping by donors or acceptors. The total Hartree energy is minimized and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. A. Falkovsky

Electronic transport in the regime where carrier-carrier collisions are the dominant scattering mechanism has taken on new relevance with the advent of ultraclean two-dimensional materials. Here we present a combined theoretical and…

Electric transport of double gated bilayer graphene devices is studied as a function of charge density and bandgap. A top gate electrode can be used to control locally the Fermi level to create a pn junction between the double-gated and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-06 Hiroki Shioya , Michihisa Yamamoto , Saverio Russo , Monica F. Craciun , Seigo Tarucha

We report an electron transport study of lithographically fabricated graphene nanoribbons of various widths and lengths at different temperatures. At the charge neutrality point, a length-independent transport gap forms whose size is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Melinda Y. Han , Juliana C. Brant , Philip Kim

We explore the device potential of tunable-gap bilayer graphene FET exploiting the possibility of opening a bandgap in bilayer graphene by applying a vertical electric field via independent gate operation. We evaluate device behavior using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Fiori , G. Iannaccone