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The electronic tunneling properties of the two stable forms of trilayer graphene (TLG), rhombohedral ABC and Bernal ABA, are examined for pn and pnp junctions as realized by using a single gate (SG) or a double gate (DG). For the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-28 B. Van Duppen , S. H. R. Sena , F. M. Peeters

Graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) can exhibit a topological phase via mutual crystallographic alignment. Recent measurements of nonlocal resistance ($R_{nl}$) near the secondary Dirac point (SDP) in ballistic graphene/hBN…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Yang Li , Mario Amado , Timo Hyart , Grzegorz P. Mazur , Jason W. A. Robinson

In a bridge configuration, a single graphene nanoribbon (GNR) is positioned with a picometer precision over a trench in between two monoatomic steps on an Au(111) surface. This GNR molecular wire adopts a deformed conformation towards the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Umamahesh Thupakula , Xavier Bouju , Jesús Castro-Esteban , Erik Dujardin , Diego Peña , Christian Joachim

We review chiral (Klein) tunneling in single-layer and bilayer graphene and present its semiclassical theory, including the Berry phase and the Maslov index. Peculiarities of the chiral tunneling are naturally explained in terms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-01 T. Tudorovskiy , K. J. A. Reijnders , M. I. Katsnelson

Transport experiments in twisted bilayer graphene revealed multiple superconducting domes separated by correlated insulating states. These properties are generally associated with strongly correlated states in a flat mini-band of the…

We investigate the transport properties of pristine zigzag-edged borophene nanoribbons (ZBNRs) of different widths, using the fist-principles calculations. We choose ZBNRs with widths of 5 and 6 as odd and even widths. The differences of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-14 Jiayi Liu , Changpeng Chen , Lu Han , Ziqing Zhu , Jinping Wu

The response of Dirac fermions to a Coulomb potential is predicted to differ significantly from the behavior of non-relativistic electrons seen in traditional atomic and impurity systems. Surprisingly, many key theoretical predictions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-02 Yang Wang , Victor W. Brar , Andrey V. Shytov , Qiong Wu , William Regan , Hsin-Zon Tsai , Alex Zettl , Leonid S. Levitov , Michael F. Crommie

We investigated a suspended bilayer graphene where the bottom (top) layer is doped by boron (nitrogen) substitutional atoms by using Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. We found that at high dopant concentration (one B-N pair…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-25 Daniele Giofré , Davide Ceresoli , Mario I. Trioni

We show that the substitutional vacancy in graphene forms a dynamical Jahn-Teller center. The adiabatic potential surface resulting from the electron-lattice coupling was computed using density-functional methods and subsequently the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Z. S. Popović , B. R. K. Nanda , S. Satpathy

Using density functional theory and non-equilibrium Greens function technique, we performed theoretical investigations on the transport properties of several ZAZ SiNRs junctions,a similar kind of silicene molecules junction combined by…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-07 Dace Zha , Changpeng Chen , Jinping Wu

Bilayer graphene twisted by a small angle shows a significant charge modulation away from neutrality, as the charge in the narrow bands near the Dirac point is mostly localized in the regions of the Moir\'e pattern with $AA$ stacking. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Francisco Guinea , Niels R. Walet

Graphene [1] and its bilayer have generated tremendous excitement in the physics community due to their unique electronic properties [2]. The intrinsic physics of these materials, however, is partially masked by disorder, which can arise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-10 Benjamin E. Feldman , Jens Martin , Amir Yacoby

We demonstrate that the one-dimensional (1D) transport channels that appear in the gap when graphene nanoroads are embedded in boron-nitride (BN) sheets are more robust when they are inserted at AB/BA grain boundaries. Our conclusions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-22 Jeil Jung , Zhenhua Qiao , Qian Niu , Allan H. MacDonald

Electronic properties of bilayer graphene are distinct from both the conventional two dimensional electron gas and monolayer graphene due to its particular chiral properties and excitation charge carrier dispersions. We study the effect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Habib Rostami , Reza Asgari

We theoretically study current dynamics of graphene nanoribbons subject to bias dc and ac driven fields. We showed that graphene nanoribbons exhibit negative high-harmonic differential conductivity. Negative differential conductivity…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-18 M. Rabiu , S. Y. Mensah , S. S. Abukari

We have studied the transport properties of a molecular device composed of donor and acceptor moieties between two electrodes on either side. The device is considered to be one-dimensional with different on-site energies and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Lakshmi , Swapan K. Pati

Bilayer graphene has drawn significant attention due to the opening of a band gap in its low energy electronic spectrum, which offers a promising route to electronic applications. The gap can be either tunable through an external electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Gregory M. Rutter , Suyong Jung , Nikolai N. Klimov , David B. Newell , Nikolai B. Zhitenev , Joseph A. Stroscio

We have calculated current-voltage characteristic curves for normal-superconducting junctions with Andreev reflections and different types of electronic bands. We found that when the normal band is narrow, of the order of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-03-13 N. García , P. Esquinazi

We present a theoretical analysis of the current-voltage characteristics of a ballistic superconductor-normal-superconductor (SNS) junction, in which a strip of graphene is coupled to two superconducting electrodes. We focus in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. C. Cuevas , A. Levy Yeyati

Correlated charge inhomogeneity breaks the electron-hole symmetry in two-dimensional (2D) bilayer heterostructures which is responsible for non-zero drag appearing at the charge neutrality point. Here we report Coulomb drag in novel drag…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Richa Mitra , Manas Ranjan Sahu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Hadas Shtrikman , A. K Sood , Anindya Das