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The linear dispersion relation in graphene[1,2] gives rise to a surprising prediction: the resistivity due to isotropic scatterers (e.g. white-noise disorder[3] or phonons[4-8]) is independent of carrier density n. Here we show that…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-04-14 J. H. Chen , C. Jang , S. Xiao , M. Ishigami , M. S. Fuhrer

We investigate electron-phonon couplings, scattering rates, and mean free paths in zigzag-edge graphene strips with widths of the order of 10 nm. Our calculations for these graphene nanostrips show both the expected similarity with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Gunlycke , H. M. Lawler , C. T. White

We present transport measurements on high-mobility bilayer graphene fully encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride. We show two terminal quantum Hall effect measurements which exhibit full symmetry broken Landau levels at low magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 S. Engels , B. Terrés , A. Epping , T. Khodkov , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , B. Beschoten , C. Stampfer

We use a van-der-Waals pickup technique to fabricate different heterostructures containing WSe$_2$(WS$_2$) and graphene. The heterostructures were structured by plasma etching, contacted by one-dimensional edge contacts and a topgate was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Tobias Völkl , Tobias Rockinger , Martin Drienovsky , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Dieter Weiss , Jonathan Eroms

We have studied the transport properties of graphene grown on silicon side of SiC. Samples under study have been prepared by two different growth methods in two different laboratories. Magnetoresistance and Hall resistance have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 P. Vasek , L. Smrcka , P. Svoboda , V. Jurka , M. Orlita , D. K. Maude , W. Strupinski , R. Stepniewski , R. Yakimova

We have fabricated and measured ballistic graphene transistors with two oblique gates that can be independently biased. The gate lengths are about 38 nm and are separated by a distance of 30 nm, the tilting angle being of 45o with respect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Mircea Dragoman , Adrian Dinescu , Daniela Dragoman

Nearly aligned graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (G/BN) can be accurately modeled by a Dirac Hamiltonian perturbed by smoothly varying moir\'e pattern pseudospin fields. Here, we present the moir\'e-band model of G/BN for arbitrary small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Jeil Jung , Evan Laksono , Ashley M. DaSilva , Allan H. MacDonald , Marcin Mucha-Kruczyński , Shaffique Adam

We study the behavior of charge carriers in graphene in inhomogeneous perpendicular magnetic fields. We consider two types of one-dimensional magnetic profiles, uniform in one direction: a sequence of N magnetic barriers, and a sequence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-27 L. Dell'Anna , A. De Martino

Encapsulating graphene in hexagonal Boron Nitride has several advantages: the highest mobilities reported to date are achieved in this way, and precise nanostructuring of graphene becomes feasible through the protective hBN layers.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Yongping Du , Ning Xu , Xianqing Lin , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Devices made from graphene encapsulated in hexagonal boron-nitride exhibit pronounced negative bend resistance and an anomalous Hall effect, which are a direct consequence of room-temperature ballistic transport on a micrometer scale for a…

Two-dimensional (2D) crystals, such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and transitional metal dichalcogenides, have attracted tremendous amount of attention over the past decade due to their extraordinary thermal, electrical and optical…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-16 Y. Zhao , Z. Wan , U. Hetmaniuk , M. P. Anantram

Chemically synthesized "cove"-type graphene nanoribbons (cGNRs) of different widths were brought into dispersion and drop-cast onto exfoliated hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on a Si/SiO2 chip. With AFM we observed that the cGNRs form ordered…

We present a detailed numerical analysis of the effect of a magnetic field on the transport properties of a `small-$N$' one-sided surface disordered wire. When time reversal symmetry is broken due to a magnetic field $B$, we find a strong…

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The upper critical field $H_{c2} $, the field $H_{c3}$ for nucleation of the surface superconductivity, and the thermodynamic $H_c $ are evaluated within the weak-coupling theory for the isotropic s-wave case and arbitrary transport and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-28 V. G. Kogan , R. Prozorov

Commensurability oscillations in the magnetotransport of periodically patterned systems, emerging from the interplay of cyclotron orbit and the pattern periodicity, are a benchmark of mesoscopic physics in electron gas systems. Exploiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 Stephen R. Power , Morten Rishøj Thomsen , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Thomas Garm Pedersen

Starting from a simple microscopic model, we have derived a kinetic equation for the matrix distribution function. We employed this equation to calculate the conductance $G$ in a mesoscopic F'/F/F' structure with a domain wall (DW). In the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 F. S. Bergeret , A. F. Volkov , K. B. Efetov

We describe the influence of hard wall confinement and lateral dimension on the low temperature transport properties of long diffusive channels and ballistic crosses fabricated in an InSb/InxAl1-xSb heterostructure. Partially diffuse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-21 A. M. Gilbertson , M. Fearn , A. Kormányos , D. E. Read , C. J. Lambert , M. T. Emeny , T. Ashley , S. A. Solin , L. F. Cohen

Van der Waals materials and their heterostructures offer a versatile platform for studying a variety of quantum transport phenomena due to their unique crystalline properties and the exceptional ability in tuning their electronic spectrum.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-05 P. Kumaravadivel , M. T. Greenaway , D. Perello , A. Berdyugin , J. Birkbeck , J. Wengraf , S. Liu , J. H. Edgar , A. K. Geim , L. Eaves , R. Krishna Kumar

Using the transfer matrix in the angular-momentum space we investigate the impact of trigonal warping on magnetotransport and scaling properties of a ballistic bilayer graphene in the Corbino geometry. Although the conductivity at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Grzegorz Rut , Adam Rycerz

We investigate the diffusive electron-transport properties of charge-doped graphene ribbons and nanoribbons with imperfect edges. We consider different regimes of edge scattering, ranging from wide graphene ribbons with (partially)…