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We study transport in undoped graphene in the presence of a superlattice potential both within a simple continuum model and using numerical tight-binding calculations. The continuum model demonstrates that the conductivity of the system is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-31 P. Burset , A. Levy Yeyati , L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

The observation of novel physical phenomena such as Hofstadter's butterfly, topological currents and unconventional superconductivity in graphene have been enabled by the replacement of SiO$_2$ with hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-18 Adolfo De Sanctis , Jake D. Mehew , Saad Alkhalifa , Freddie Withers , Monica F. Craciun , Saverio Russo

We propose a mechanical granular graphene obtained by replacing the carbon atoms with macroscopic spherical stainless steel beads in contact. The experimental measured dispersion relation is presented, in conjunction with evidence of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Li-Yang Zheng , Florian Allein , Vincent Tournat , Vitalyi Gusev , Georgios Theocharis

We study the electronic properties of a twisted trilayer graphene, where two of the layers have Bernal stacking and the third one has a relative rotation with respect to the AB-stacked layers. Near the Dirac point, the AB-twisted trilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 E. Suárez Morell , M. Pacheco , L. Chico , L. Brey

We propose a tunable electronic band gap and zero-energy modes in periodic heterosubstrate-induced graphene superlattices. Interestingly, there is an approximate linear relation between the band gap and the proportion of inhomogeneous…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-04 Xiong Fan , Wenjun Huang , Tianxing Ma , Li-Gang Wang

The fabrication of epitaxial graphene (EG) on SiC substrate by annealing has attracted a lot of interest as it may speed up the application of graphene for future electronic devices. The interaction of EG and the SiC substrate is critical…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. H. Ni , W. Chen , X. F. Fan , J. L. Kuo , T. Yu , A. T. S. Wee , Z. X. Shen

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures, formed by stacking two-dimensional materials, offer highly tunable electronic and optical properties, with the twist angle between layers acting as a critical tuning parameter. While its impact on…

The temperature dependence of electric transport properties of single-layer and few-layer graphene at large charge doping is of great interest both for the study of the scattering processes dominating the conductivity at different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 R. S. Gonnelli , F. Paolucci , E. Piatti , Kanudha Sharda , A. Sola , M. Tortello , Jijeesh R. Nair , C. Gerbaldi , M. Bruna , S. Borini

The electronic transport properties and band structures for the graphene-based one-dimensional (1D) superlattices with periodic squared potentials are investigated. It is found that a new Dirac point is formed, which is exactly located at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-25 Li-Gang Wang , Shi-Yao Zhu

We theoretically study the occurrence of Bloch oscillations in biased hybrid graphene systems with spin-dependent superlattices. The spin-dependent potential is realized by a set of ferromagnetic insulator strips deposited on top of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-15 E. Díaz , K. Miralles , F. Domínguez-Adame , C. Gaul

Energy band structure of the bilayer graphene superlattices with zero-averaged periodic $\delta$-function potentials are studied within the four-band continuum model. Using the transfer matrix method, studies are mainly focused on examining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-14 C. Huy Pham , V. Lien Nguyen

The dependence of the electric resistance R of nanoperforated graphene samples on the position of the Fermi level, which is varied by the gate voltage Vg, has been studied. Nanoperforation has been performed by irradiating graphene samples…

Experimental and theoretical studies on ratchet effects in graphene with a lateral superlattice excited by alternating electric fields of terahertz frequency range are presented. A lateral superlatice deposited on top of monolayer graphene…

We investigate electronic transport in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) under variable temperatures ($T$), carrier densities ($n$), and transverse magnetic fields, focusing on samples with small-twist-angles ($\theta$). These samples show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-24 Ting-Fung Chung , Yang Xu , Yong P. Chen

Gapless bilayer graphene (GBG), like monolayer graphene, is a material system with unique properties, such as anti-Klein tunneling and intrinsic Fano resonances. These properties rely on the gapless parabolic dispersion relation and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 J. A. Briones-Torres , R. Pernas-Salomón , R. Pérez-Álvarez , I. Rodríguez-Vargas

Controlling the electronic structure of two-dimensional materials using the combination of twist angle and electrostatic doping is an effective means to induce emergent phenomena. In bilayer graphene with an interlayer twist angle near the…

Graphene is an ideal platform to study many-body effects due to its semimetallic character and the possibility to dope it over a wide range. Here we study the width of graphene's occupied $\pi$-band as a function of doping using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-10 Søren Ulstrup , Malte Schüler , Marco Bianchi , Felix Fromm , Christian Raidel , Thomas Seyller , Tim Wehling , Philip Hofmann

We study the Goos-H\"anchen (GH) shifts for transmitted Dirac fermions in gapped graphene through a single barrier structure having a time periodic oscillating component. Our analysis shows that the GH shifts in transmission for central…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Bouchaib Lemaalem , Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

We study a novel type of graphene-based superlattices formed owing to a periodic modulation of the Fermi surface. Such a modulation is possible for graphene deposited on a striped substrate made of materials with substantially different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-11 P. V. Ratnikov , A. P. Silin

Graphene is an attractive electrode material to contact nanostructures down to the molecular scale since it can be gated electrostatically. Gating can be used to control the doping and the energy level alignment in the nanojunction, thereby…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Nick R. Papior , Tue Gunst , Daniele Stradi , Mads Brandbyge