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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

We present a scanning probe microscopy technique for spatially resolving transport in cold atomic gases, in close analogy with scanning gate microscopy in semiconductor physics. The conductance of a quantum point contact connected to two…

The field of graphene research has developed rapidly since its first isolation by mechanical exfoliation in 2004. Due to the relativistic Dirac nature of its charge carriers, graphene is both a promising material for next-generation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 Matthew Yankowitz , Jiamin Xue , Brian J. LeRoy

We use a combination of charge writing and scanning gate microscopy to map and modify the local charge neutrality point of graphene field-effect devices. We give a demonstration of the technique by writing remote charge in a thin dielectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-12 M. R. Connolly , E. D. Herbschleb , R. K. Puddy , M. Roy , D. Anderson , G. A. C. Jones , P. Maksym , C. G. Smith

By using Boltzmann formalism, we show that carrier multiplication by impact ionization can take place at relatively low electric fields during electronic transport in graphene. Because of the absence of energy gap, this effect is not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Anuj Girdhar , Jean-Pierre Leburton

We report on quantum transport measurements on etched graphene nanoribbons encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). At zero magnetic field our devices behave qualitatively very similar to what has been reported for graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. Epping , C. Volk , F. Buckstegge , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , C. Stampfer

We exploit the geometry of magnetic nanowires, which define 1D contacts to an encapsulated graphene channel, to introduce an out-of-plane component in the polarisation of spin carriers. By design, the magnetic nanowires traverse the angled…

By using four layered graphene/gallium nitride (GaN) Schottky diodes with an undoped GaN spacer, we demonstrate highly effective gating of graphene at low bias rendering this type of structure very promising for potential applications. An…

The electronic conductance of graphene-based bilayer flake systems reveal different quantum interference effects, such as Fabry-P\'erot resonances and sharp Fano antiresonances on account of competing electronic paths through the device.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 D. Zambrano , L. Rosales , A. Latgé , M. Pacheco , P. A. Orellana

We study optical absorption at graphene edges in a transversal magnetic field. The magnetic field bends the trajectories of particle- and hole excitations into antipodal direction which generates a directed current. We find a rather strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-02 Friedemann Queisser , Sascha Lang , Ralf Schützhold

We exploit GaAs-based quantum point contacts as mesoscopic detectors to analyze the ballistic flow of photogenerated electrons in a two-dimensional electron gas at a perpendicular magnetic field. Whereas charge transport experiments always…

We present low-temperature magnetotransport measurements on graphene rings encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride. We investigate phase-coherent transport and show Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations in quasi-ballistic graphene rings with hard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Jan Dauber , Martin Oellers , Florian Venn , Alexander Epping , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Fabian Hassler , Christoph Stampfer

The coherent charge transport through an illuminated graphene ribbon is studied as function of electronic doping, frequency and strength of the electromagnetic driving, for monochromatic circularly polarized light. We focus on the DC…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Jonathan Atteia , Jens. H. Bardarson , Jérome Cayssol

We study scanning gate microscopy (SGM) conductance mapping of a $\mathrm{MoS}_2$ zigzag ribbon exploiting tight-binding and continuum models. We show that, even though the edge modes of a pristine nanoribbon are robust to backscattering on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 M. Prokop , D. Gut , M. P. Nowak

We study the effect of a sharply localized magnetic field on the electron transport in a strip (ribbon) of graphene sheet, which allows to give results for the transmission and reflection probability through magnetic barriers. The magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Abdulaziz D. Alhaidari , Hocine Bahlouli , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

The atomically-precise controlled synthesis of graphene stripes embedded in hexagonal boron nitride opens up new possibilities for the construction of nanodevices with applications in sensing. Here, we explore properties related to…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-21 Fabio A. L. de Souza , Wanderla L. Scopel , Rodrigo G. Amorim , Ralph H. Scheicher

We report evidence of nonequilibrium hot carriers extraction from graphene by gate-dependent photocurrent study. Scanning photocurrent excited by femtosecond pulse laser shows unusual gate dependence compared with continuous wave (CW) laser…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-12 Chang-Hua Liu , Nanditha M. Dissanayake , Seunghyun Lee , Kyunghoon Lee , Zhaohui Zhong

Defect color centers in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have gained significant interest as single-photon emitters and spin qubits for applications in a wide range of quantum technologies. As the integration of these solid-state quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-23 Madhava Krishna Prasad , Jonathan Paul Goss , Jonathan David Mar

We present simulations of an imaging mechanism that reveals the trajectories of electrons in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), as well as simulations of the electron flow in zero and small magnetic fields. The end goal of this work is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Katherine E. Aidala , Robert E. Parrott , E. J. Heller , R. M. Westervelt

We examine the electronic structure of recently fabricated in-plane heterojunctions of zigzag graphene nanoribbons embedded in hexagonal boron nitride. We focus on hitherto unexplored interface configurations in which both edges of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Michele Pizzochero , Nikita V. Tepliakov , Johannes Lischner , Arash A. Mostofi , Efthimios Kaxiras