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Carrier generation by impact ionization and subsequent recombination under the influence of magnetic field has been studied for InSb slab. A simple analytic expression for threshold electric field as a function of magnetic field is…

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Carrier transport in gated 2D graphene monolayers is theoretically considered in the presence of scattering by random charged impurity centers with density $n_i$. Excellent quantitative agreement is obtained (for carrier density $n >…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-09 E. H. Hwang , S. Adam , S. Das Sarma

Using the semi-classical Boltzmann theory, we calculate the conductivity as function of the carrier density. As usually, we include the scattering from charged impurities, but conclude that the estimated impurity density is too low in order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Stauber , N. M. R. Peres , F. Guinea

Graphene has shown impressive properties for nanoelectronics applications including a high mobility and a width-dependent bandgap. Use of graphene in nanoelectronics would most likey be in the form of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yinxiao Yang , Raghunath Murali

The magnetic effects in ferromagnetic graphene basically depend on the principle of exchange interaction when ferromagntism is induced by depositing an insulator layer on graphene. Here we deal with the consequences of non-uniformity in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Debashree Chowdhury , B Basu

Graphene field-effect transistors are fabricated utilizing single-crystal hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), an insulating isomorph of graphene, as the gate dielectric. The devices exhibit mobility values exceeding 10,000 cm2/V-sec and current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 I. Meric , C. R. Dean , A. F. Young , J. Hone , P. Kim , K. L. Shepard

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 nonequilibrium carriers (electrons and holes) in an intrinsic graphene at low temperatures under far- and mid-infrared (IR) radiation in a wide range of its intensities. The energy distributions of carriers are calculated using a…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-06-29 A. Satou , F. T. Vasko , V. Ryzhii

We investigate hot carrier propagation across graphene using an electrical nonlocal injection/detection method. The device consists of a monolayer graphene flake contacted by multiple metal leads. Using two remote leads for electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. F. Sierra , I. Neumann , M. V. Costache , S. O. Valenzuela

We have used a multi-scale physics-based model to predict how the grain size and different grain boundary morphologies of polycrystalline graphene will impact the performance metrics of graphene field-effect transistors. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-05 David Jiménez , Aron W. Cummings , Ferney Chaves , Dinh Van Tuan , Jani Kotakoski , Stephan Roche

Graphene is expected to be rather insensitive to ionizing particle radiation. We demonstrate that single layers of exfoliated graphene sustain significant damage from irradiation with slow highly charged ions. We have investigated the ion…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-24 J. Hopster , R. Kozubek , B. Ban-d'Etat , S. Guillous , H. Lebius , M. Schleberger

Ballistic semiconductor structures have allowed the realization of optics-like phenomena in electronics, including magnetic focusing and lensing. An extension that appears unique to graphene is to use both n and p carrier types to create…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-27 J. R. Williams , Tony Low , M. S. Lundstrom , C. M. Marcus

In this work, we present a performance analysis of Field Effect Transistors based on recently fabricated 100% hydrogenated graphene (the so-called graphane) and theoretically predicted semi-hydrogenated graphene (i.e. graphone). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Gianluca Fiori , S. Lebègue , A. Betti , P. Michetti , M. Klintenberg , O. Eriksson , Giuseppe Iannaccone

The process of coherent creation of particle - hole excitations by an electric field in graphene is quantitatively described beyond linear response. We calculate the evolution of current density, number of pairs and energy in ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 B. Rosenstein , M. Lewkowicz , H. C. Kao , Y. Korniyenko

A Drude-Boltzmann theory is used to calculate the transport properties of bilayer graphene. We find that for typical carrier densities accessible in graphene experiments, the dominant scattering mechanism is overscreened Coulomb impurities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-22 Shaffique Adam , S. Das Sarma

We present a circuit-compatible compact model of the intrinsic capacitances of graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs). Together with a compact drain current model, a large-signal model of GFETs is developed combining both models as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Francisco Pasadas , David Jiménez

In graphene, after the electric field is turned-on, the ballistic acceleration of charge carriers up to the monochromatic optic phonon energy generates a back-and-forth motion of the whole distribution function between the zero point energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-04 Samwel K. Sekwao , Jean. P. Leburton

It has been argued that current saturation in graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs) is needed to get the highest possible maximum oscillation frequency (fmax). This paper numerically investigates whether velocity saturation can help to…

Femtosecond time-resolved spectroscopy using 400 nm-pump and 800 nm-probe in CVD-grown multilayer graphene provides strong evidence for isotropic distribution of photoexcited carrier after initial relaxation. Indicative of such isotropic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 Xiao-Qing Yan , Zhi-Bo Liu , Jun Yao , Xin Zhao , Xu-Dong Chen , Yongsheng Chen , Jian-Guo Tian

An anomalous distortion is often observed in the transfer characteristics of graphene field-effect transistors. We fabricate graphene transistors with ferromagnetic metal electrodes, which reproducibly display distorted transfer…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-06-30 Ryo Nouchi , Katsumi Tanigaki