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Recent work investigated graphene's hydrogenation with independent control of the electric field, E, and charge density, n, in the crystal and showed that the process is controlled by n. Here, we demonstrate layer-selective…

Pristine bilayer graphene behaves in some instances as an insulator with a transport gap of a few meV. This behaviour has been interpreted as the result of an intrinsic electronic instability induced by many-body correlations. Intriguingly,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 P. San-Jose , R. V. Gorbachev , A. K. Geim , K. S. Novoselov , F. Guinea

Recent experimental work on locally gated graphene layers resulting in p-n junctions have revealed quantum Hall effect in their transport behavior. We explain the observed conductance quantization which is fractional in the bipolar regime…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-07 D. A. Abanin , L. S. Levitov

We report on transport properties of monolayer graphene with a laterally modulated potential profile, employing striped top gate electrodes with spacings of 100 nm to 200 nm. Tuning of top and back gate voltages gives rise to local charge…

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

Graphene p-n junctions provide an ideal platform for investigating novel behavior at the boundary between electronics and optics that arise from massless Dirac fermions, such as whispering gallery modes and Veselago lensing. Bilayer…

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

Electron transport in graphene is along the sheet but junction devices are often made by stacking different sheets together in a "side-contact" geometry which causes the current to flow perpendicular to the sheets within the device. Such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-04-08 Xiang-Guo Li , Iek-Heng Chu , X. -G. Zhang , Hai-Ping Cheng

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 investigate bilayers of nanoporous graphene (NPG), laterally bonded carbon nanoribbons, and graphene. The electronic and transport properties are explored as a function of the interlayer twist angle using an atomistic tight-binding model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Xabier Diaz de Cerio , Aleksander Bach Lorentzen , Mads Brandbyge , Aran Garcia-Lekue

This is a theoretical study of electron transport in gated bilayer graphene - a novel semiconducting material with a tunable band gap. It is shown that the which-layer pseudospin coherence enhances the subgap conductivity and facilitates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-28 Maxim Trushin

Spatial manipulation of current flow in graphene could be achieved through the use of a tilted pn junction. We show through numerical simulation that a pseudo-Hall effect (i.e. non-equilibrium charge and current density accumulating along…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-20 Tony Low , Joerg Appenzeller

We explore the Floquet band-structure and electronic transport in laser-illuminated bilayer graphene. By using a bias voltage perpendicular to the graphene bilayer we show how to get one-way charge and valley transport among two unbiased…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Virginia Dal Lago , Eric Suárez Morell , Luis E. F. Foa Torres

The peculiar nature of electron scattering in graphene is among many exciting theoretical predictions for the physical properties of this material. To investigate electron scattering properties in a graphene plane, we have created a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 B. Huard , J. A. Sulpizio , N. Stander , K. Todd , B. Yang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

We formulate a theory of transport in graphene bilayers in the weak momentum scattering regime in such a way as to take into account contributions to the electrical conductivity to leading and next-to-leading order in the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dimitrie Culcer , R. Winkler

We investigate the electronic transport properties of a bilayer graphene flake contacted by two monolayer nanoribbons. Such a finite-size bilayer flake can be built by overlapping two semiinfinite ribbons or by depositing a monolayer flake…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 J. W. Gonzalez , H. Santos , M. Pacheco , L. Chico , L. Brey

We explore the electronic structure and transport properties of a metal on top of a (weakly coupled) two-dimensional topological insulator. Unlike the widely studied junctions between topological non-trivial materials, the systems studied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 L. E. F. Foa Torres , V. Dal Lago , E. Suárez Morell

Twisted bilayer graphene gives rise to large moir\'{e} patterns that form a triangular network upon mechanical relaxation. If gating is included, each triangular region has gapped electronic Dirac points that behave as bulk topological…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Guillaume Bal , Paul Cazeaux , Daniel Massatt , Solomon Quinn

Ballistic transport in graphene p-n junctions in the presence of magnetic field exhibits two distinct regimes: At low fields, transport is partially suppressed by the field. When the field exceeds a certain critical value, the junction is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-23 A. V. Shytov , Nan Gu , L. S. Levitov

Graphene quantum dots provide promising platforms for hosting spin, valley, or spin-valley qubits. Taking advantage of the electrically generated band gap and the ambipolar nature, high-quality quantum dots can be defined in bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Fang-Ming Jing , Guo-Quan Qin , Zhuo-Zhi Zhang , Xiang-Xiang Song , Guo-Ping Guo