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We report the fabrication and measurement of top gated epitaxial graphene p-n junctions where exfoliated hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is used as the gate dielectric. The four-terminal longitudinal resistance across a single junction is…

We demonstrate ultra-sharp (${\lesssim}\,10\text{ nm}$) lateral $p\text{-}n$ junctions in graphene using electronic transport, scanning tunneling microscopy, and first principles calculations. The $p\text{-}n$ junction lies at the boundary…

We investigate the transport of electrons in disordered and pristine graphene devices. Fano shot noise, a standard metric to assess the mechanism for electronic transport in mesoscopic devices, has been shown to produce almost the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Mario F. Borunda , H. Hennig , Eric J. Heller

We have developed the combination of an etching and deposition technique that enables the fabrication of locally gated graphene nanostructures of arbitrary design. Employing this method, we have fabricated graphene nanoconstrictions with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Barbaros Özyilmaz , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Dmitri Efetov , Philip Kim

Graphene pn junction is the brick to build up variety of graphene nano-structures. The analytical formula of the conductance of graphene gradual pn junctions in the whole bipolar region has been absent up to now. In this paper, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-07 Mou Yang , Rui-Qiang Wang , Yan-Kui Bai

The p-n junctions dynamics in graphene channel induced by stripe domains nucleation, motion and reversal in a ferroelectric substrate is explored using self-consistent approach based on Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire phenomenology combined with…

We report on transport properties of monolayer graphene with a laterally modulated potential profile, employing striped top gate electrodes with spacings of 100 nm to 200 nm. Tuning of top and back gate voltages gives rise to local charge…

Electron collimation via a graphene pn-junction allows electrostatic control of ballistic electron trajectories akin to that of an optical circuit. Similar manipulation of novel correlated electronic phases in twisted-bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Wei Ren , Xi Zhang , Ziyan Zhu , Moosa Khan , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Efthimios Kaxiras , Mitchell Luskin , Ke Wang

Valley-dependent topological physics offers a promising avenue for designing nanoscale devices based on gapless single-layer graphene. To demonstrate this potential, we investigate an electrical bias-controlled topological discontinuity in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Zheng-Han Huang , Jing-Yuan Lai , Yu-Shu G. Wu

A p-n junction, induced in graphene by gating, works to contrast the edge states of electrons and holes on each side of it. In a magnetic field those edge states carry two species of persistent current, which are intimately tied to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 K. Shizuya

The rich and electrostatically tunable phase diagram exhibited by moir\'e materials has made them a suitable platform for hosting single material multi-purpose devices. To engineer such devices, understanding electronic transport and…

One of the unique features of graphene is that the Fermi wavelength of its charge carriers can be tuned electrostatically over a wide range. This allows in principle to tune the transparency of a pn-junction electrostatically, as this…

Due to its strong bonds graphene can stretch up to 25% of its original size without breaking. Furthermore, mechanical deformations lead to the generation of pseudo-magnetic fields (PMF) that can exceed 300 T. The generated PMF has opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Slavisa P. Milovanovic , Francois M. Peeters

Strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in graphene grown on tungsten disulfide (WS2) has been recently observed, leading to energy gap opening by SOI. Energy gap in graphene may also be induced by sublattice symmetry breaking (SSB) where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Kitakorn Jatiyanon , Bumned Soodchomshom

We present transport measurements on a bilayer graphene sheet with homogeneous back gate and split top gate. The electronic transport data indicates the capability to direct electron flow through graphene nanostructures purely defined by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 S. Dröscher , C. Barraud , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

A blueprint for producing scalable digital graphene electronics has remained elusive. Current methods to produce semiconducting-metallic graphene networks all suffer from either stringent lithographic demands that prevent reproducibility,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Hicks , A. Tejeda , A. Taleb-Ibrahimi , M. S. Nevius , F. Wang , K. Shepperd , J. Palmer , F. Bertran , P. Le Fèvre , J. Kunc , W. A. de Heer , C. Berger , E. H. Conrad

We report the experimental observation of Fabry-P\'erot (FP) interference in the conductance of a gate-defined cavity in a dual-gated bilayer graphene (BLG) device. The high quality of the BLG flake, combined with the device's electrical…

We propose to combine the advantages of graphene, such as easy tunability and long coherence times, with Josephson physics to manufacture qubits. If these qubits are built around a 0 and $\pi$ junction they can be controlled by an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-06 Colin Benjamin , Jiannis K. Pachos

We have fabricated and measured ballistic graphene transistors with two oblique gates that can be independently biased. The gate lengths are about 38 nm and are separated by a distance of 30 nm, the tilting angle being of 45o with respect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Mircea Dragoman , Adrian Dinescu , Daniela Dragoman

Finding an effective and controllable way to create a sizable energy gap in graphene-based systems has been a challenging topic of intensive research. We propose that the hybrid of boron nitride and graphene (h-BNC) at low BN doping serves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 Chih-Piao Chuu , Wei-En Tseng , Kuan-Hung Liu , Ching-Ming Wei , Mei-Yin Chou