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The supercurrent for the surface superconductivity of a flat-band multilayered rhombohedral graphene is calculated. Despite the absence of dispersion of the excitation spectrum, the supercurrent is finite. The critical current is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 N. B. Kopnin

We consider the tight-binding approximation for the description of energy bands of graphene, together with the standard Boltzmann's transport equation and constant relaxation time, an expression for the conductivity was obtained. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-26 S. S. Abukari , S. Y. Mensah , R. Musah , N. G. Mensah , K. A. Dompreh

In this work, we briefly overview various options for Josephson junctions which should be scalable down to nanometer range for utilization in nanoscale digital superconducting technology. Such junctions should possess high values of…

The electrical conductivity of graphene with a nonzero mass-gap parameter is investigated starting from the first principles of quantum electrodynamics in (2+1)-dimensional space-time at any temperature. The formalism of the polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-07 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

We measure graphene coplanar waveguides from direct current (DC) to 13.5GHz and show that the apparent resistance (in the presence of parasitic impedances) has an quadratic frequency dependence, but the intrinsic conductivity (without the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 S. A. Awan , A. Lombardo , A. Colli , G. Privitera , T. Kulmala , J. M. Kivioja , M. Koshino , A. C. Ferrari

We investigate the influence of gauge fields induced by strain on the supercurrent passing through the graphene-based Josephson junctions. We show in the presence of a constant pseudomagnetic field ${\bf B}_S$ originated from an arc-shape…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Hadi Khanjani , Ali G. Moghaddam

A ballistic strip of graphene (width W>> length L) connecting two normal metal contacts is known to have a minimum conductivity of 4e^{2}/pi h at the Dirac point of charge neutrality. We calculate what happens if one of the two contacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. J. Beenakker

Studies of the structural, electronic, and optical characteristics of the interfaces between graphene and ZnO polar surfaces is carried out using first-principles simulations. At the interface, a strong van der Waals force is present, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-23 H. D. Etea , K. N. Nigussa

A systematic treatment of graphene-semiconductor junction is presented. Finite density of states at the Fermi level of graphene leads to exotic electronic properties at graphene-semiconductor interface. Quite generally, the Schottky-Mott…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 M. Javadi

We investigate the proximity effect in junctions between $N=3$ superconductors under commensurate voltage bias. The bias is chosen to highlight the role of transport processes that exchange multiple Cooper pairs coherently between more than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-01 Ciprian Padurariu , Thibaut Jonckheere , Jérôme Rech , Thierry Martin , Denis Feinberg

Superconducting diodes are proposed non-reciprocal circuit elements that should exhibit non-dissipative transport in one direction while being resistive in the opposite direction. Multiple examples of such devices have emerged in the past…

Spatial manipulation of current flow in graphene could be achieved through the use of a tilted pn junction. We show through numerical simulation that a pseudo-Hall effect (i.e. non-equilibrium charge and current density accumulating along…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-20 Tony Low , Joerg Appenzeller

In a recent experiment [Lin et al., arXiv:2112.07841], the superconducting phase hosted by a heterostructure of mirror-symmetric twisted trilayer graphene and WSe$_2$ was shown to exhibit significantly different critical currents in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-25 Harley D. Scammell , J. I. A. Li , Mathias S. Scheurer

Employing first-principles calculations, we investigate efficiency of spin injection from a ferromagnetic (FM) electrode (Ni) into graphene and possible enhancement by using a barrier between the electrode and graphene. Three types of…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-05 Qingyun Wu , Lei Shen , Zhaoqiang Bai , Minggang Zeng , Ming Yang , Zhigao Huang , Yuan Ping Feng

The speed of silicon-based transistors has reached an impasse in the recent decade, primarily due to scaling techniques and the short-channel effect. Conversely, graphene (a revolutionary new material possessing an atomic thickness) has…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-03 K. C. Yung , W. M. Wu , M. P. Pierpoint , F. V. Kusmartsev

Isolated, atomically thin conducting membranes of graphite, called graphene, have recently been the subject of intense research with the hope that practical applications in fields ranging from electronics to energy science will emerge.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 S. Garaj , W. Hubbard , A. Reina , J. Kong , D. Branton , J. A. Golovchenko

We perform systematic first-principles calculations of the proximity exchange coupling, induced by cobalt (Co) and nickel (Ni) in graphene, via a few (up to three) layers of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). We find that the induced spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Klaus Zollner , Martin Gmitra , Tobias Frank , Jaroslav Fabian

In this paper, we develop a theory of edge effects in graphene for its applications to nanoantennas in the terahertz, infrared, and visible frequency ranges. Its characteristic feature is selfconsistence reached due the formulation in terms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Tomer Berghaus , Touvia Miloh , Oded Gottlieb , Gregory Slepyan

The stationary Josephson effect in a system of ballistic graphene is studied in the framework of quasiclassical Green's function theory. Reflecting the ultimate two-dimensionality of graphene, a Josephson junction involving a graphene sheet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-24 Yositake Takane , Ken-Ichiro Imura

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