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We use the strongly temperature-dependent ionic mobility in polymer electrolytes to 'freeze in' specific ionic charge environments around a nanowire using a local wrap-gate geometry. This enables us to set both the threshold voltage for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-12 Sofia Fahlvik Svensson , Adam M. Burke , Damon J. Carrad , Martin Leijnse , Heiner Linke , Adam P. Micolich

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

Coulomb blockade is observed in a graphene nanoribbon device with a top gate. When two pn junctions are formed via the back gate and the local top gate, electrons are confined between the pn junctions which act as the barriers. When no pn…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-11 Xinglan Liu , Jeroen B. Oostinga , Alberto F. Morpurgo , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen

Measurement and theory of the two-terminal conductance of monolayer and bilayer graphene in the quantum Hall regime are compared. We examine features of conductance as a function of gate voltage that allow monolayer, bilayer, and gapped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-24 J. R. Williams , D. A. Abanin , L. DiCarlo , L. S. Levitov , C. M. Marcus

We study the thermoelectrical transports for an interacting dot attached to two graphene electrodes. Graphene band structure shows a pseudogap density of states that affects strongly the transport properties. In this work, we focus on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 Jose Ramon Isern-Lozano , Ioan Grosu , Rosa Lopez , Jong Soo Lim , Mircea Crisan

Graphene is an ideal material for hot-electron bolometers, due to its low heat capacity and weak electron-phonon coupling. Nanostructuring graphene with quantum dot constrictions yields detectors with extraordinarily high intrinsic…

Quantum oscillations of metallic systems at low temperatures is one of the key rules to experimentally access their electronic properties, such as energy spectrum, scattering mechanisms, geometry of Fermi surface and many other features.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Z. Z. Alisultanov , M. S. Reis

We theoretically investigate a folded bilayer graphene structure as an experimentally realizable platform to produce the one-dimensional topological zero-line modes. We demonstrate that the folded bilayer graphene under an external gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Tao Hou , Guanghui Chen , Wang-Kong Tse , Changgan Zeng , Zhenhua Qiao

We demonstrate theoretically that quantum dots in bilayers of graphene can be realized. A position-dependent doping breaks the equivalence between the upper and lower layer and lifts the degeneracy of the positive and negative momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Milton Pereira , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

We show that the low temperature electron transport properties of chemically functionalized graphene can be explained as sequential tunneling of charges through a two dimensional array of graphene quantum dots (GQD). Below 15 K, a total…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Daeha Joung , Lei Zhai , Saiful I. Khondaker

We theoretically analyse the possibility to electrostatically confine electrons in circular quantum dot arrays, impressed on contacted graphene nanoribbons by top gates. Utilising exact numerical techniques, we compute the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Holger Fehske , Georg Hager , Andreas Pieper

We report the observation of Coulomb blockade in a quantum dot contacted by two quantum point contacts each with a single fully-transmitting mode, a system previously thought to be well described without invoking Coulomb interactions. At…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-06 S. Amasha , I. G. Rau , M. Grobis , R. M. Potok , H. Shtrikman , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

In bilayer graphene the exact energy levels of quantum dots can be derived from the four-component continuum Hamiltonian. Here, we study the quantum dot energy levels with approximate equations and compare them with the exact levels. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 G. Giavaras

Electrostatically confined quantum dots in bilayer graphene have shown potential as building blocks for quantum technologies. To operate the dots, e.g., as qubits, a precise understanding and control of the confined states and their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Dennis Mayer , Angelika Knothe

We show simultaneous p and n type carrier injection in bilayer graphene channel by varying the longitudinal bias across the channel and the top gate voltage. The top gate is applied electrochemically using solid polymer electrolyte and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-08 Biswanath Chakraborty , Anindya Das , A. K. Sood

Graphene quantum dots (QDs) are intensively studied as platforms for the next generation of quantum electronic devices. Fine tuning of the transport properties in monolayer graphene QDs, in particular with respect to the independent…

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

Stimulated by recent advances in isolating graphene, we discovered that quantum dot can be trapped in Z-shaped graphene nanoribbon junciton. The topological structure of the junction can confine electronic states completely. By varying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Z. F. Wang , Huaixiu Zheng , Q. W. Shi , Jie Chen , Qunxiang Li , J. G. Hou

We discuss graphene nanoribbon-based charge sensors and focus on their functionality in the presence of external magnetic fields and high frequency pulses applied to a nearby gate electrode. The charge detectors work well with in-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 C. Neumann , C. Volk , S. Engels , C. Stampfer

Unconventional superconductivity in bilayer graphene has been reported for twist angles $\theta$ near the first magic angle and charged electrostatically with holes near half filling of the lower flat bands. A maximum superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-06 Dale R. Harshman , Anthony T. Fiory