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Microelectromechanical systems, which can be moved or rotated with nanometre precision, already find applications in such fields like radio-frequency electronics, micro-attenuators, sensors and many others. Especially interesting are those…

We present low-temperature Raman measurements on gate tunable graphene encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride, which allows to study in detail the Raman G and 2D mode frequencies and line widths as function of the charge carrier density.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Jens Sonntag , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Bernd Beschoten , Christoph Stampfer

We consider conductance mapping of systems based on the two-dimensional electron gas with scanning gate microscopy using two and more tips of the atomic force microscope. The paper contains results of numerical simulations for a model tip…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 K. Kolasiński , B. Szafran , B. Hackens

We present transport measurements on high-mobility bilayer graphene fully encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride. We show two terminal quantum Hall effect measurements which exhibit full symmetry broken Landau levels at low magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 S. Engels , B. Terrés , A. Epping , T. Khodkov , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , B. Beschoten , C. Stampfer

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 use Scanning Gate Microscopy to demonstrate the presence of localized states arising from potential inhomogeneities in a 50nm-wide, gate-defined conducting channel in encapsulated bilayer graphene. When imaging the channel conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Carolin Gold , Annika Kurzmann , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Klaus Ensslin , Thomas Ihn

Graphene has opened new avenues of research in quantum transport, with potential applications for coherent electronics. Coherent transport depends sensitively on scattering from microscopic disorder present in graphene samples: electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jesse Berezovsky , Robert M Westervelt

Magnetic fields force ballistic electrons injected from a narrow contact to move along skipping orbits and form caustics. This leads to pronounced resistance peaks at nearby voltage probes as electrons are effectively focused inside them, a…

Graphene with its dispersion relation resembling that of photons offers ample opportunities for applications in electron optics. The spacial variation of carrier density by external gates can be used to create electron waveguides, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Shiang-Bin Chiu , Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Ka Long Lei , Ching-Hung Chiu , Wun-Hao Kang , Szu-Chao Chen , Ming-Hao Liu

In this letter we report the observation of ballistic transport on micron length scales in graphene synthesised by chemical vapour deposition (CVD). Transport measurements were done on Hall bar geometries in a liquid He cryostat. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 V. E. Calado , Shou-En Zhu , S. Goswami , Q. Xu , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , G. C. A. M. Janssen , L. M. K. Vandersypen

Ballistic semiconductor structures have allowed the realization of optics-like phenomena in electronics, including magnetic focusing and lensing. An extension that appears unique to graphene is to use both n and p carrier types to create…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-27 J. R. Williams , Tony Low , M. S. Lundstrom , C. M. Marcus

We theoretically propose to directly observe the chiral nature of charge carriers in graphene mono- and bilayers within a controlled scattering experiment. The charge located on a capacitively coupled scanning probe microscope (SPM) tip…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Matthias Braun , Luca Chirolli , Guido Burkard

Biased bilayer graphene, with its easily tunable band gap, presents itself as the ideal system to explore the excitonic effect in graphene based systems. In this paper we study the excitonic optical response of such a system by combining a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-20 J. C. G. Henriques , Itai Epstein , N. M. R. Peres

We have studied the dielectric screening of electric field which is induced by a gate voltage in twisted double bilayer graphene by using a sample with a mismatch angle of about 5 degrees. In low temperature magnetotransport measurements,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Fumiya Mukai , Kota Horii , Nazuna Hata , Ryoya Ebisuoka , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ryuta Yagi

All local electronic properties of graphene on a hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrate exhibit spatial moir\'e patterns related to lattice constant and orientation differences between shared triangular Bravais lattices. We apply a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ashley M. DaSilva , Jeil Jung , Shaffique Adam , Allan H. MacDonald

We study the the transport properties of multiterminal ballistic graphene samples, concentrating on the conductance matrix, fluctuations and cross-correlations. Far away from Dirac point, the current is carried mostly by propagating modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-03 M. A. Laakso , T. T. Heikkilä

Neuromorphic computing has emphasized the need for memristors with non-volatile, multiple conductance levels. This paper demonstrates the potential of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)/graphene heterostructures to act as memristors with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Harsimran Kaur Mann , Mainak Mondal , Vivek Sah , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Akshay Singh , Aveek Bid

Due to its exceptional electronic and thermal properties, graphene is a key material for bolometry, calorimetry, and photon detection. However, despite graphene's relatively simple electronic structure, the physical processes responsible…

We develop a model for carrier generation by impact ionization in graphene, which shows that this effect is non-negligible because of the vanishing energy gap, even for carrier transport in moderate electric fields. Our theory is applied to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 L. Pirro , A. Girdhar , Y. Leblebici , J. P. Leburton

We study fully hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)-encapsulated graphene spin valve devices at room temperature. The device consists of a graphene channel encapsulated between two crystalline hBN flakes; thick-hBN flake as a bottom gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-01 M. Gurram , S. Omar , S. Zihlmann , P. Makk , C. Schönenberger , B. J. van Wees