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Just like the artefact found in ferroelectric hysteresis loops, the nearly identical NDR effect shown in Sr3Co2Fe24O41, TiO2, Al2O3, glass and even banana skins is confirmed to be a kind of water behavior. The combination of water induced…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 J. Li , H. -F. Zhang , G. -Q. Shao , B. -L. Wu , S. -X. Ouyang

AB-stacked bilayer graphene has emerged as a fascinating yet simple platform for exploring macroscopic quantum phenomena of correlated electrons. Unexpectedly, a phase with negative dR/dT has recently been observed when a large electric…

In this letter, we propose the resonant tunneling diode (RTD) based on a double-barrier graphene/boron nitride (BN) heterostructure as device suitable to take advantage of the elaboration of atomic sheets containing different domains of BN…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-01 Nguyen Viet Hung , Fulvio Mazzamuto , Arnaud Bournel , Philippe Dollfus

Bilayer graphene (two coupled graphitic monolayers arranged according to Bernal stacking) is a two-dimensional gapless semiconductor with a peculiar electronic spectrum different from the Dirac spectrum in the monolayer material. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Kechedzhi , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , E. McCann , B. L. Altshuler

Multipeak negative differential resistance (NDR) molecular devices are designed from first principles. The effect of NDR is associated with the non-linear Stark shifts and the electron localization within the conductive region and contacts.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-07 Mikolaj Sadek , Malgorzata Wierzbowska , Michal F. Rode , Andrzej L. Sobolewski

We study the frictional drag between carriers in two bilayer graphene flakes separated by a 2 $-$ 5 nm thick hexagonal boron nitride dielectric. At temperatures ($T$) lower than $\sim$ 10 K, we observe a large anomalous negative drag…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Kayoung Lee , Jiamin Xue , David C. Dillen , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Emanuel Tutuc

Using density functional theory and non-equilibrium Greens function technique, we performed theoretical investigations on the structural and transport properties of zigzag silicene nanoribbons with Stone-Wales defect. The calculated…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-07 Dace Zha , Changpeng Chen , Manman Wang

We report anomalous quantum transport features in bilayer graphene in presence of a random distribution of structural vacancies. By using an efficient real-space Kubo-Greenwood transport methodology, the impact of a varying density of dimer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-11 Dinh Van Tuan , Stephan Roche

We show how the two-dimensional Dirac oscillator model can describe some properties of electrons in graphene. This model explains the origin of the left-handed chirality observed for charge carriers in monolayer and bilayer graphene. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-21 C. Quimbay , P. Strange

A remarkable manifestation of the quantum character of electrons in matter is offered by graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite. Unlike conventional solids where electrons are described with the Schrodinger equation, electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Z. Q. Li , E. A. Henriksen , Z. Jiang , Z. Hao , M. C. Martin , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer , D. N. Basov

The negative differential resistance (NDR) tunnel diodes are promising alternative devices for beyond-CMOS computing as they offer several potential applications when integrated with transistors. We propose a novel semiconductor-free NDR…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Ersoy Sasioglu , Ingrid Mertig

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

Both experiments and theoretical studies have demonstrated that the interaction between the current carrying electrons and the induced polarization charge in single-molecule junctions leads to a strong renormalization of molecular charging…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-22 K. Kaasbjerg , K. Flensberg

Here, we present a detailed study on low bias current-voltage (I-V) characteristic of graphene superlattice (GSL) resonant tunneling diode (RTD) with heterostructured substrate and series of grounded metallic planes placed over graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 S. M. Sattari Esfahlan , J. Fouladi Oskuei , S. Shojaei

Negative differential conductance (NDC), characterized by the decreasing current with increasing voltage, has attracted continuous attention for its various novel applications. The NDC typically exists in a certain range of bias voltages…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Si-Yu Li , Haiwen Liu , Jia-Bin Qiao , Hua Jiang , Lin He

Quantum resonant tunneling behaviors of double-barrier structures on graphene are investigated under the tight-binding approximation. The Klein tunneling and resonant tunneling are demonstrated for the quasiparticles with energy close to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 Wei-Yin Deng , Rui Zhu , Yun-Chang Xiao , Wen-Ji Deng

We theoretically demonstrate that a system formed by two coupled graphene sheets enables a negative damping regime wherein graphene plasmons are pumped by a DC current. This effect is triggered by electrons drifting through one of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Tiago A. Morgado , Mário G. Silveirinha

The recent observation [R. V. Gorbachev et al., Science {\bf 346}, 448 (2014)] of nonlocal resistance $R_\mathrm{NL}$ near the Dirac point (DP) of multiterminal graphene on aligned hexagonal boron nitride (G/hBN) has been interpreted as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 J. M. Marmolejo-Tejada , J. H. García , M. Petrović , P. -H. Chang , X. -L. Sheng , A. Cresti , P. Plecháč , S. Roche , B. K. Nikolic

Superlattices (SLs) in monolayer and bilayer graphene, formed by spatially periodic potential variations, lead to a modified bandstructure with extra finite-energy and zero-energy Dirac fermions with tunable anisotropic velocities. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Si Wu , Matthew Killi , Arun Paramekanti

We present a novel and comprehensive model of 1/f noise in nanoscale graphene devices that accounts for the unusual and so far unexplained experimental characteristics. We find that the noise power spectral density versus carrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-16 Bruno Pellegrini