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In this study, we investigate the weak localization (WL) and weak antilocalization (WAL) effects in twisted bilayer graphene positioned on a hexagonal boron nitride substrate. The bottom graphene layer aligns with the hexagonal boron…

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We study the electronic transport in a graphene-based superconductor-normal(graphene)-superconductor (SNS) junction by use of the Dirac-Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation. We consider the properties of tunneling conductance through an undoped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-22 Dima Bolmatov , Chung-Yu Mou

The electric conductance of a strip of undoped graphene increases in the presence of a disorder potential, which is smooth on atomic scales. The phenomenon is attributed to impurity-assisted resonant tunneling of massless Dirac fermions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 M. Titov

Confinement of electrons in graphene to make devices has proven to be a challenging task. Electrostatic methods fail because of Klein tunneling, while etching into nanoribbons requires extreme control of edge terminations, and bottom-up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Y. Wu , D. Zhai , C. Pan , B. Cheng , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , N. Sandler , M. Bockrath

Quantum confinement of graphene Dirac-like electrons in artificially crafted nanometer structures is a long sought goal that would provide a strategy to selectively tune the electronic properties of graphene, including bandgap opening or…

The recent discovery of superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has sparked a renewed interest in the strongly-correlated physics of $sp^2$ carbons, in stark contrast to preliminary investigations which were dominated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Deepanshu Aggarwal , Rohit Narula , Sankalpa Ghosh

The evolution of electronic structure of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) as a function of the number of layers stacked together is investigated using \textit{ab initio} density functional theory (DFT) including interlayer van der Waals…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-28 Neerav Kharche , Yu Zhou , Kevin P. O'Brien , Swastik Kar , Saroj K. Nayak

We have performed the first experimental investigation of quantum interference corrections to the conductivity of a bilayer graphene structure. A negative magnetoresistance - a signature of weak localisation - is observed at different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. V. Gorbachev , F. V. Tikhonenko , A. S. Mayorov , D. W. Horsell , A. K. Savchenko

We study the transport property for armchair-edge graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) with an adatom coupling to a semi-infinite quantum wire. Using the nonequilibrium Green's function approach with tight-binding approximation, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xiongwen Chen , Kehui Song , Benhu Zhou , Haiyan Wang , Guanghui Zhou

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, composed of single atomic layers, have attracted vast research interest since the breakthrough discovery of graphene. One major benefit of such systems is the simple ability to tune the chemical potential by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-01 Gopi Nath Daptary , Eyal Walach , Efrat Shimshoni , Aviad Frydman

Van der Waals structures formed by aligning monolayer graphene with insulating layers of hexagonal boron nitride exhibit a moir\'e superlattice that is expected to break sublattice symmetry. Despite an energy gap of several tens of…

In the vicinity of the Fermi energy, the band structure of graphene is well described by a Dirac equation. Impurities will generally induce both a scalar potential as well as a (fictitious) gauge field acting on the Dirac fermions. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-12 Eros Mariani , Leonid I. Glazman , Alex Kamenev , Felix von Oppen

The study of moir\'e engineering started with the advent of van der Waals heterostructures in which stacking two-dimensional layers with different lattice constants leads to a moir\'e pattern controlling their electronic properties. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-28 F. Mesple , N. R. Walet , G. Trambly de Laissardière , F. Guinea , D. Dosenovic , H. Okuno , C. Paillet , A. Michon , C. Chapelier , V. T. Renard

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

Stacking two-dimensional layered materials such as graphene and transitional metal dichalcogenides with nonzero interlayer twist angles has recently become attractive because of the emergence of novel physical properties. Stacking of…

Stacking two graphene layers twisted by the 'magic angle' $\theta \approx 1.1^\circ$ generates flat energy bands, which in turn catalyzes various strongly correlated phenomena depending on filling and sample details. At charge neutrality,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-24 Alex Thomson , Jason Alicea

Graphene, a monolayer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal pattern, provides a unique two-dimensional (2D) system exhibiting exotic phenomena such as quantum Hall effects, massless Dirac quasiparticle excitations and universal absorption…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 K. M. Dani , J. Lee , R. Sharma , A. D. Mohite , C. M. Galande , P. M. Ajayan , A. M. Dattelbaum , H. Htoon , A. J. Taylor , R. P. Prasankumar

Based on the BTK theory, we investigate the tunneling conductance in a uniaxially strained graphene-based normal metal (NG)/ barrier (I)/superconductor (SG) junctions. In the present model, we assume that depositing the conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-12 Bumned Soodchomshom

Electrons in graphene follow unconventional trajectories at PN junctions, driven by their pseudospintronic degree of freedom. Significant is the prominent angular dependence of transmission, capturing the chiral nature of the electrons and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Redwan N. Sajjad , S. Sutar , J. U. Lee , Avik W. Ghosh

Graphene revealed a number of unique properties beneficial for electronics. However, graphene does not have an energy band-gap, which presents a serious hurdle for its applications in digital logic gates. The efforts to induce a band-gap in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Guanxiong Liu , Sonia Ahsan , Alexander G. Khitun , Roger K. Lake , Alexander A. Balandin