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Double-gated graphene devices provide an important platform for understanding electrical and optical properties of graphene. Here we present transport measurements of single layer, bilayer and trilayer graphene devices with suspended top…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Velasco , Y. Lee , L. Jing , G. Liu , W. Bao , C. N. Lau

We present a theory of electronic transport in graphene in the presence of randomly placed adsorbates. Our analysis predicts a marked asymmetry of the conductivity about the Dirac point, as well as a negative weak-localization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-05 John P. Robinson , Henning Schomerus , Laszlo Oroszlany , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Due to the chiral nature of electrons in a monolayer of graphite (graphene) one can expect weak antilocalisation and a positive weak-field magnetoresistance in it. However, trigonal warping (which breaks p/-p symmetry of the Fermi line in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. McCann , K. Kechedzhi , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , H. Suzuura , T. Ando , B. L. Altshuler

We review the fabrication and key transport properties of graphene double layers, consisting of two graphene monolayers placed in close proximity, independently contacted, and separated by an ultra-thin dielectric. We outline a simple band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-14 Seyoung Kim , Emanuel Tutuc

A method is suggested to separately determine the surface density of positively and negatively charged impurities that limit the mobility in a graphene monolayer. The method is based on the exact result for the transport cross-section,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-05 D. S. Novikov

Transport in ultrathin graphite grown on silicon carbide is dominated by the electron-doped epitaxial layer at the interface. Weak anti-localization in 2D samples manifests itself as a broad cusp-like depression in the longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaosong Wu , Xuebin Li , Zhimin Song , Claire Berger , Walt A. de Heer

Recent $\textit{ab initio}$ theoretical calculations of the electrical performance of several two-dimensional materials predict a low-field carrier mobility that spans several orders of magnitude (from 26,000 to 35 cm$^{2}$ V$^{-1}$…

Graphite is a well-studied material with known electronic and optical properties. Graphene, on the other hand, which is just one layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, has been studied theoretically for quite some time but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Molitor , D. Graf , C. Stampfer , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

We report measurements of magnetoresistance in single-layer graphene as a function of gate voltage (carrier density) at 250 mK. By examining signatures of weak localization (WL) and universal conductance fluctuations (UCF), we find a…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Yung-Fu Chen , Myung-Ho Bae , Cesar Chialvo , Travis Dirks , Alexey Bezryadin , Nadya Mason

Particle localization is an essential ingredient in quantum Hall physics [1,2]. In conventional high mobility two-dimensional electron systems Coulomb interactions were shown to compete with disorder and to play a central role in particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Martin , N. Akerman , G. Ulbricht , T. Lohmann , K. von Klitzing , J. H. Smet , A. Yacoby

Most materials in available macroscopic quantities are polycrystalline. Graphene, a recently discovered two-dimensional form of carbon with strong potential for replacing silicon in future electronics, is no exception. There is growing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Oleg V. Yazyev , Steven G. Louie

Interactions of magnetic elements with graphene may lead to various electronic states that have potential applications. We report an in-situ experiment in which the quantum transport properties of graphene are measured with increasing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Chaoyi Cai , Jian-Hao Chen

We present electronic transport measurements through short and narrow (30x30 nm) single layer graphene constrictions on a hexagonal boron nitride substrate. While the general observation of Coulomb-blockade is compatible with earlier work,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-30 Dominik Bischoff , Florian Libisch , Joachim Burgdörfer , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin

Collective transport through a multichannel disordered conductor in contact with charge-density-wave electrodes is theoretically investigated. The statistical distribution function of the threshold potential for charge-density wave sliding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mark I. Visscher , Behzad Rejaei , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

MXenes stand out from other 2D materials because they combine very good electrical conductivity with hydrophilicity, allowing cost-effective processing as thin films. Therefore, there is a high fundamental interest in unraveling the…

Folded single layer graphene forms a system of two decoupled monolayers being only a few Angstroms apart. Using magnetotransport measurements we investigate the electronic properties of the two layers conducting in parallel. We show a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 H. Schmidt , T. Luedtke , P. Barthold , R. J. Haug

We calculate the interference correction to the conductivity of doped transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers. Because of the interplay between valley structure and intrinsic spin-orbit coupling (SOC), these materials exhibit a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Stefan Ilic , Julia S. Meyer , Manuel Houzet

At high magnetic fields, monolayer graphene hosts competing phases distinguished by their breaking of the approximate SU(4) isospin symmetry. Recent experiments have observed an even denominator fractional quantum Hall state thought to be…

Localization properties of the doped Z_2-topological insulator are studied by weak localization theory. The disordered Kane-Mele model for graphene is taken as a prototype, and analyzed with attention to effects of the topological mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-27 Ken-Ichiro Imura , Yoshio Kuramoto , Kentaro Nomura

Motivated by a recent experiment reporting on the possible application of graphene as sensors, we calculate transport properties of 2D graphene monolayers in the presence of adsorbed molecules. We find that the adsorbed molecules, acting as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-16 E. H. Hwang , S. Adam , S. Das Sarma