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We investigate theoretically the interplay between the effects of a perpendicular electric field and incommensurability at the interface on the electronic properties of a heterostructure of bilayer graphene and a semiconducting substrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 D. J. Leech , M. Mucha-Kruczyński

We determine the structure of band and gaps in graphene encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride and subjected to magnetic field of Abrikosov lattice of vortices in the underlying superconducting film. The spectrum features one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Xi Chen , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We present a phenomenological theory of the low energy moir\'e minibands of Dirac electrons in graphene placed on an almost commensurate hexagonal underlay with a unit cell pproximately three times larger than that of graphene.A slight…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-15 J. R. Wallbank , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , V. I. Fal'ko

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

Electronic properties of the graphene layer sandwiched between two hexagonal boron nitride sheets have been studied using the first-principles calculations and the minimal tight-binding model. It is shown that for the ABC-stacked structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-10 J. Slawinska , I. Zasada , P. Kosinski , Z. Klusek

Cyclotron resonance has been measured in far-infrared transmission of GaAs/Al$_x$Ga$_{1-x}$As heterostructures with an etched hexagonal lateral superlattice. Non-linear dependence of the resonance position on magnetic field was observed as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-22 L. Nadvornik , M. Orlita , N. A. Goncharuk , L. Smrcka , V. Novak , V. Jurka , K. Hruska , Z. Vyborny , Z. R. Wasilewski , M. Potemski , K. Vyborny

We theoretically investigate the electronic structures of moir\'{e} superlattices arising in monolayer / bilayer graphene stacked on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) in presence and absence of magnetic field. We develop an effective continuum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-10 Pilkyung Moon , Mikito Koshino

Graphene bilayer systems are known to exhibit a band gap when the layer symmetry is broken, by applying a perpendicular electric field. The resulting band structure resembles that of a conventional semiconductor with a parabolic dispersion.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Søren Schou Gregersen , Jesper Goor Pedersen , Stephen R. Power , Antti-Pekka Jauho

The electronic properties of a material depend on the spatial freedom of the electron wavefunction. A well-known example is graphite, which is a conventional gapless semiconductor, while a single layer of it, graphene, exhibits extremely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Mohammadamir Bazrafshan , Thomas. D. Kühne

We find a systematic reappearance of massive Dirac features at the edges of consecutive minibands formed at magnetic fields B_{p/q}= p\phi_0/(qS) providing rational magnetic flux through a unit cell of the moire superlattice created by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-10 Xi Chen , J. R. Wallbank , A. A. Patel , M. Mucha-Kruczynski , E. McCann , V. I. Fal'ko

In this review, we provide an in-depth description of the physics of monolayer and bilayer graphene from a theorist's perspective. We discuss the physical properties of graphene in an external magnetic field, reflecting the chiral nature of…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-20 D. S. L. Abergel , V. Apalkov , J. Berashevich , K. Ziegler , Tapash Chakraborty

The propagation of Dirac fermions in graphene through a long-period periodic potential would result in a band folding together with the emergence of a series of cloned Dirac points (DPs). In highly aligned graphene/hexagonal boron nitride…

We identify features in the angle-resolved photoemission spectra (ARPES) arising from the periodic pattern characteristic for graphene heterostructure with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). For this, we model ARPES spectra and intensity maps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 M. Mucha-Kruczynski , J. R. Wallbank , V. I. Fal'ko

We study the superlattice minibands produced by the interplay between moir\'e pattern induced by hexagonal BN substrate on graphene layer and the interlayer coupling in bilayer graphene with Bernal stacking (BLG). We compare moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 M. Mucha-Kruczynski , J. Wallbank , V. I. Fal'ko

We investigate a planar heterostructure composed of two graphene films separated by a narrow-gap semiconductor ribbon. We show that there is no the Klein paradox when the Dirac points of the Brillouin zone of graphene are in a band gap of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 P. V. Ratnikov , A. P. Silin

Graphene nanoribbons (GNR) in mutually perpendicular electric and magnetic fields are shown to exhibit dramatic changes in their band structure and electron transport properties. A strong electric field across the ribbon induces multiple…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Oleksiy Roslyak , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

Rational design of artificial lattices yields effects unavailable in simple solids, and vertical superlattices of multilayer semiconductors are already used in optical sensors and emitters. Manufacturing lateral superlattices remains a much…

We study the energy spectrum and electronic properties of graphene in a periodic magnetic field of zero average with a symmetry of triangular lattice. The periodic field leads to formation of a set of minibands separated by gaps, which can…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Taillefumier , V. K. Dugaev , B. Canals , C. Lacroix , P. Bruno

Graphene has demonstrated great promise for future electronics technology as well as fundamental physics applications because of its linear energy-momentum dispersion relations which cross at the Dirac point. However, accessing the physics…

Two-dimensional systems with flat bands support correlated phases such as superconductivity and charge fractionalization. While twisted moire systems like twisted bilayer graphene have revealed such states, they remain complex to control.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Elias Andrade , Alejandro Jimeno-Pozo , Pierre A. Pantaleon , Francisco Guinea , Gerardo G. Naumis
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