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Tunnelling of electrons in graphene-based junctions is studied theoretically. Graphene is assumed to be deposited either directly on a ferromagnetic insulator or on a few atomic layers of boron nitride which separate graphene from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Jędrzej Tepper , Józef Barnaś

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

The diffusion of electron-hole pairs, which are excited in an intrinsic graphene by the ultrashort focused laser pulse in mid-IR or visible spectral region, is described for the cases of peak-like or spread over the passive region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 F. T. Vasko , V. V. Mitin

We report on the possibility to simultaneously generate in graphene a {\it bulk valley-polarized dissipative transport} and a {\it quantum valley Hall effect} by combining strain-induced gauge fields and real magnetic fields. Such unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Mikkel Settnes , José Hugo García , Stephan Roche

We study carrier transport through graphene on SrTiO$_3$ substrates by considering relative contributions of Coulomb and resonant impurity scattering to graphene resistivity. We establish that charged impurity scattering must dominate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 S. Das Sarma , Qiuzi Li

We report on spectroscopy results from the mid- to far-infrared on wafer-scale graphene, grown either epitaxially on silicon carbide, or by chemical vapor deposition. The free carrier absorption (Drude peak) is simultaneously obtained with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-17 Hugen Yan , Fengnian Xia , Wenjuan Zhu , Marcus Freitag , Christos Dimitrakopoulos , Ageeth A. Bol , George Tulevski , Phaedon Avouris

Transport in photoactive graphene heterostructures, originating from the dynamics of photogenerated hot carriers, is governed by the processes of thermionic emission, electron-lattice thermal imbalance and cooling. These processes give rise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 J. F. Rodriguez-Nieva , M. S. Dresselhaus , L. S. Levitov

The impact of the intrinsic time-dependent fluctuations in the electrical resistance at the graphene-metal interface or the contact noise, on the performance of graphene field effect transistors, can be as adverse as the contact resistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-02 Paritosh Karnatak , T. Phanindra Sai , Srijit Goswami , Subhamoy Ghatak , Sanjeev Kaushal , Arindam Ghosh

We fabricated graphene pnp devices, by embedding pre-defined local gates in an oxidized surface layer of a silicon substrate. With neither dielectric-material deposition nor electron-beam irradiation on the graphene, we obtained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Seung-Geol Nam , Dong-Keun Ki , Jong Wan Park , Youngwook Kim , Jun Sung Kim , Hu-Jong Lee

In conventional light harvesting devices, the absorption of a single photon only excites one electron, which sets the standard limit of power-conversion efficiency, such as the Shockley-Queisser limit. In principle, generating and…

We introduce effective field theories for the electronic properties of graphene in terms of relativistic fermions propagating in 2+1 dimensions, and outline how strong inter-electron interactions may be modelled by numerical simulation of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-09 Simon Hands , Wes Armour , Costas Strouthos

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

The influence of carrier density on magnetism in a zigzag graphene nanoribbon is studied in a $\pi$-orbital Hubbard-model mean-field approximation. Departures from half-filling alter the magnetism, leading to states with charge density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-31 J. Jung , A. H. MacDonald

The formalism of the nonperturbative description of transport phenomena in graphene on the framework of the quantum kinetic equation for the Schwinger-like process is compared with the description on the basis of Zener-Klein tunneling. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 A. Panferov , S. Smolyansky , D. Blaschke , N. Gevorgyan

We describe the fundamental trade-offs in engineering the mobility, current saturation and ON- OFF ratios in graphene transistors. Surprisingly, the trade-offs arise solely from an asymptotic constraint on the high energy bandstructure and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 Frank Tseng , Avik W. Ghosh

Graphane is a semiconductor with an energy gap, obtained from hydrogenation of the two-dimensional grapheme sheet. Together with the two-dimensional geometry, unique transport features of graphene, and possibility of doping graphane, p and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-29 B. Gharekhanlou , S. B. Tousaki , S. Khorasani

Graphene is believed to be an excellent candidate material for next-generation electronic devices. However, one needs to take into account the nontrivial effect of metal contacts in order to precisely control the charge injection and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Salvador Barraza-Lopez , Markus Kindermann , M. Y. Chou

The luminescence caused by the interband transitions of hot carriers in graphene is considered theoretically. The dependencies of emission in mid- and near-IR spectral regions versus energy and concentration of hot carriers are analyzed;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-09 F. T. Vasko , O. G. Balev

We develop a theory of fluctuation-driven phenomena in thermal transport in graphene double-layers. We work in the regime of electron hydrodynamics and focus on the double charge neutrality point. Although at the neutrality point charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Alex Levchenko , Songci Li , A. V. Andreev

We develop a hydrodynamic theory of charge and heat currents induced by traveling waves, such as surface acoustic waves, in graphene devices near charge neutrality. The currents depend on the intrinsic conductivity and viscosity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 E. Kirkinis , A. Levchenko , A. V. Andreev