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A theoretical study of the transport properties of zigzag and armchair graphene nanoribbons with a magnetic barrier on top is presented. The magnetic barrier modifies the energy spectrum of the nanoribbons locally, which results in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-19 Hengyi Xu , T. Heinzel , M. Evaldsson , I. V. Zozoulenko

We study quantum transport in Dirac materials with a single fermionic Dirac cone (strong topological insulators and graphene in the absence of intervalley coupling) in the presence of non-Gaussian long-range disorder. We show, by directly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 E. Rossi , J. H. Bardarson , M. S. Fuhrer , S. Das Sarma

A far-reaching goal of graphene research is exploiting the unique properties of carriers to realize extreme nonclassical electronic transport. Of particular interest is harnessing wavelike carriers to guide and direct them on submicron…

Numerical calculations have been performed to elucidate unconventional electronic transport properties in disordered nanographene ribbons with zigzag edges (zigzag ribbons). The energy band structure of zigzag ribbons has two valleys that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-07 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Yositake Takane , Masayuki Yamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

Novel physical properties have been reported recently by stacking graphene-like systems in different configurations. Here, we explore the nature of emergent localized states at the edges of twisted bilayer graphene nanoribbons. Based on an…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-13 Kevin J. U. Vidarte , A. B. Felix , A. Latgé

We have realized nanometer size constrictions in ballistic graphene nanoribbons grown on sidewalls of SiC mesa structures. The high quality of our devices allows the observation of a number of electronic quantum interference phenomena. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Jens Baringhaus , Mikkel Settnes , Johannes Aprojanz , Stephen R. Power , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Christoph Tegenkamp

Most materials in available macroscopic quantities are polycrystalline. Graphene, a recently discovered two-dimensional form of carbon with strong potential for replacing silicon in future electronics, is no exception. There is growing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Oleg V. Yazyev , Steven G. Louie

The charge carrier density in graphene on a dielectric substrate such as SiO$_2$ displays inhomogeneities, the so-called charge puddles. Because of the linear dispersion relation in monolayer graphene, the puddles are predicted to grow near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 S. Samaddar , I. Yudhistira , S. Adam , H. Courtois , C. B. Winkelmann

We investigate the effects of homogeneous and inhomogeneous deformations and edge disorder on the conductance of gated graphene nanoribbons. Under increasing homogeneous strain the conductance of such devices initially decreases before it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Diana A. Cosma , Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski , Henning Schomerus , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We report measurements of disordered graphene probed by both a high electric field and a high magnetic field. By apply a high source-drain voltage Vsd, we are able to study the current-voltage relation I-Vsd of our device. With increasing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-29 Shun-Tsung Lo , Chiashain Chuang , R. K. Puddy , T. -M. Chen , C. G. Smith , C. -T. Liang

Graphene nanoribbons are semiconductor nanostructures with great potentials in nanoelectronics. Their realization particularly with small lateral dimensions below a few nanometers, however, remains challenging. Here we theoretically analyze…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Valentina Tozzini , Vittorio Pellegrini

We develop an Effective Medium Theory to study the electrical transport properties of disordered graphene. The theory includes non-linear screening and exchange-correlation effects allowing us to consider experimentally relevant strengths…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-20 Enrico Rossi , S. Adam , S. Das Sarma

Particle localization is an essential ingredient in quantum Hall physics [1,2]. In conventional high mobility two-dimensional electron systems Coulomb interactions were shown to compete with disorder and to play a central role in particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Martin , N. Akerman , G. Ulbricht , T. Lohmann , K. von Klitzing , J. H. Smet , A. Yacoby

The high field charge injection and transport properties in reinforced silicone dielectrics were investigated by measuring the time-dependent space charge distribution and the current under dc conditions up to the breakdown field, and were…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-04 Yanhui Huang , Linda. S. Schadler

We investigate the contribution of charge puddles to the non-vanishing conductivity minimum in disordered graphene flakes at the charge neutrality point. For that purpose, we study systems with a geometry that suppresses the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 Leandro R. F. Lima , Caio H. Lewenkopf

The robustness of topological materials against disorder and defects is presumed but has not been demonstrated explicitly in realistic systems. In this work, we use state-of-the-art density functional theory and recursive nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Armando Pezo , Bruno Focassio , Gabriel R. Schleder , Marcio Costa , Caio Lewenkopf , Adalberto Fazzio

We report on measurements of the quantum capacitance in graphene as a function of charge carrier density. A resonant LC-circuit giving high sensitivity to small capacitance changes is employed. The density of states, which is directly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-28 S. Dröscher , P. Roulleau , F. Molitor , P. Studerus , C. Stampfer , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

An efficient computational methodology is used to explore charge transport properties in chemically-modified (and randomly disordered) graphene-based materials. The Hamiltonians of various complex forms of graphene are constructed using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-16 Nicolas Leconte , Aurélien Lherbier , François Varchon , Pablo Ordejon , Stephan Roche , Jean-Christophe Charlier

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 study the electron transport through a graphene nanoribbon-superconductor junction. Both zigzag and armchair edge graphene nanoribbons are considered, and the effects of the magnetic field and disorder on the transport property are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie