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We present a comprehensive study of the properties of the off-resonant conductance spectrum in oligomer nanojunctions between graphitic electrodes. By employing first-principle-based methods and the Landauer approach of quantum transport,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giorgos Fagas , Agapi Kambili

The recent discovery of methods to isolate graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of crystalline carbon, has raised the possibility of a new class of nano-electronics devices based on the extraordinary electrical transport and unusual physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-02 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Anthony Barker , Eva Y. Andrei

Electronic conductance through a single molecule is sensitive towards its structural orientation between two electrodes, owing to the distribution of molecular orbitals and their coupling to the electrode levels, that are governed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-11 Koushik R. Das , Sudipta Dutta

The Dirac point and linear band structure in Graphene bestow it with remarkable electronic and optical properties, a subject of intense ongoing research. Explanations of high electronic mobility in graphene, often invoke the masslessness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Chaitanya K. Ullal , Jian Shi , Ravishankar Sundararaman

We describe the electronic conductivity, as a function of the Fermi energy, in the Bernal bilayer graphene (BLG) in presence of a random distribution of vacancies that simulate resonant adsorbates. We compare it to monolayer (MLG) with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Ahmed Missaoui , Jouda Jemaa Khabthani , Nejm-Eddine Jaidane , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

We study the effects of metallic doping on the electronic properties of graphene using density functional theory in the local density approximation in the presence of a local charging energy (LDA+U). The electronic properties are sensitive…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Uchoa , C. -Y. Lin , A. H. Castro Neto

We review a calculation of the quantum corrections to electrical transport in graphene using the trajectory-based semiclassical method. Compared to conventional metals, for graphene the semiclassical propagator contains an additional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 Martin Schneider , Piet W. Brouwer

The conductance through a quantum point contact created by a sharp and hard metal tip on the graphite surface has features which to our knowledge have not been encountered so far in metal contacts or in nanowires. In this paper we first…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Kilic , H. Mehrez , S. Ciraci

Graphene has evolved as a platform for quantum transport that can compete with the best and cleanest semiconductor systems. Recently, many interesting local properties of carrier transport in graphene have been investigated by various…

We analyse the interaction between charges and graphene layers. The electric polarisability of graphene induces a force, that can be described by an image charge. The analysis shows that graphene can be described as an imperfect conductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-27 Francisco Guinea , Niels R. Walet

Graphene -a recently discovered one-atom-thick layer of graphite- constitutes a new model system in condensed matter physics, because it is the first material in which charge carriers behave as massless chiral relativistic particles. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hubert B. Heersche , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Jeroen B. Oostinga , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen , Alberto F. Morpurgo

Electron transport in graphene under a laser-modulated barrier is studied in the presence of an energy gap, a scalar potential, and a uniaxial zigzag strain. The transfer-matrix approach is used with the boundary conditions to derive the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Hasna Chnafa , Clarence Cortes , David Laroze , Ahmed Jellal

Electron transport properties of a biphenyl molecule are studied based on the Green's function formalism. The molecule is sandwiched between two metallic electrodes, where each benzene ring is threaded by a magnetic flux $\phi$. The results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-15 Santanu K. Maiti

We provide a broad review of fundamental electronic properties of two-dimensional graphene with the emphasis on density and temperature dependent carrier transport in doped or gated graphene structures. A salient feature of our review is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 S. Das Sarma , Shaffique Adam , E. H. Hwang , Enrico Rossi

The electronic transport properties of two junctions (BGB, GBG) made of borophene (B) and graphene (G) are investigated. Using the transfer matrix method with Chebyshev polynomials, we have studied single and multiple barriers in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Nadia Benlakhouy , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

In the effective mass approximation, electronic property in graphene can be characterized by the relativistic Dirac equation. Within such a continuum model we investigate the electronic transport through graphene waveguides formed by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Haidong Li , Lin Wang , Zhihuan Lan , Yisong Zheng

Tunnelling of electrons in graphene-based junctions is studied theoretically. Graphene is assumed to be deposited either directly on a ferromagnetic insulator or on a few atomic layers of boron nitride which separate graphene from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Jędrzej Tepper , Józef Barnaś

The optical conductivity of freely suspended graphene was examined under non-equilibrium conditions using femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy. We observed a conductivity transient that varied strongly with the electronic temperature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-20 Leandro M. Malard , Kin Fai Mak , A. H. Castro Neto , N. M. R. Peres , Tony F. Heinz

We study the electronic transport properties of dual-gated bilayer graphene devices. We focus on the regime of low temperatures and high electric displacement fields, where we observe a clear exponential dependence of the resistance as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Thiti Taychatanapat , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

We present electronic transport measurements through short and narrow (30x30 nm) single layer graphene constrictions on a hexagonal boron nitride substrate. While the general observation of Coulomb-blockade is compatible with earlier work,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-30 Dominik Bischoff , Florian Libisch , Joachim Burgdörfer , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin