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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

An analytical method for diffraction of a plane electromagnetic wave at periodically-modulated graphene sheet is presented. Both interface corrugation and periodical change in the optical conductivity are considered. Explicit expressions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 T. M. Slipchenko , M. L. Nesterov , L. Martin-Moreno , A. Yu. Nikitin

The behavior of the TE and TM electromagnetic waves in graphene at the interface between two semi-infinite dielectric media is studied. The dramatic influence on the TE waves propagation even at very small changes in the optical contrast…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 O. V. Kotov , M. A. Kol'chenko , Yu. E. Lozovik

Semiconductor heterojunctions are foundational to many advanced electronic and optoelectronic devices. However, achieving high-quality, lattice-mismatched interfaces remains challenging, limiting both scalability and device performance.…

We analytically describe light transmission through a single subwavelength slit in a thin perfect electric conductor screen for the incident polarization being perpendicular to the slit, and derive simple, yet accurate, expressions for the…

The reflectivity properties of graphene with nonzero mass-gap parameter are investigated in the framework of Dirac model using the polarization tensor in (2+1)-dimensional space-time. For this purpose, a more simple explicit representation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

We propose an implementation of a valley selective electronic Veselago lens in bilayer graphene. We demonstrate that in the presence of an appropriately oriented potential step, low-energy electrons radiating from a point source can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-26 Csaba G. Péterfalvi , László Oroszlány , Colin J. Lambert , József Cserti

It has been shown in a recent study [Nguyen et al., Nanotechnol. \textbf{25}, 165201 (2014)] that unstrained/strained graphene junctions are promising candidates to improve the performance of graphene transistors that is usually hindered by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 Mai Chung Nguyen , Viet Hung Nguyen , Huy-Viet Nguyen , Philippe Dollfus

Nonuniform strain distributions in a graphene lattice can give rise to uniform pseudomagnetic fields and associated pseudo-Landau levels without breaking time-reversal symmetry. We demonstrate that by inducing superconductivity in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 Shu-Ping Lee , Debaleena Nandi , Frank Marsiglio , Joseph Maciejko

We investigate the optical properties of edge-functionalized graphene nanosystems, focusing on the formation of junctions and charge transfer excitons. We consider a class of graphene structures which combine the main electronic features of…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-18 Caterina Cocchi , Deborah Prezzi , Alice Ruini , Marilia J. Caldas , Elisa Molinari

We review the transmission of Dirac electrons through a potential barrier in the presence of circularly polarized light. A different type of transmission is demonstrated and explained. Perfect transmission for nearly head-on collision in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Andrii Iurov , Bo Gao

Here we present the theory of the conductivity of pn junction (pnJ) in graphene channel, placed on ferroelectric substrate, caused by ferroelectric domain wall (FDW) for the case of arbitrary current regime: from ballistic to diffusive one.…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-21 Maksym V. Strikha , Anna N. Morozovska

The coherence of quantum Hall (QH) edges play the deciding factor in demonstrating an electron interferometer, which has potential to realize a topological qubit. A Graphene p-n junction (PNJ) with co-propagating spin and valley polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-02 Arup Kumar Paul , Manas Ranjan Sahu , Chandan Kumar , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Anindya Das

Electron tunneling is associated with light emission. In order to elucidate its generating mechanism, we provide a novel experimental ansatz that employs fixed-distance epitaxial graphene as metallic electrodes. In contrast to previous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Christian Ott , Stephan Götzinger , Heiko B. Weber

This paper is devoted to photocarrier transport across a two-dimensional graphene-semiconductor Schottky junction. We study linear response to monochromatic light with excitation energy well below the semiconductor band gap. The operation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-31 Maxim Trushin

We study the electronic transport of armchair and zigzag gated phosphorene junctions. We find confined states for both direction-dependent phosphorene junctions. In the case of armchair junctions confined states are reflected in the…

The realization of p-n junctions in graphene, combined with the gapless and chiral nature of its massless Dirac fermions has led to the observation of many intriguing phenomena such as quantum Hall effect in bipolar regime, Klein tunneling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-07 Thiti Taychatanapat , Jun You Tan , Yuting Yeo , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Barbaros Özyilmaz

We report on Andreev reflections at clean NbSe2-bilayer graphene junctions. The high transparency of the junction, which manifests as a large conductance enhancement of up to 1.8, enables us to see clear evidence of a proximity-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Jing Li , Han-Bing Leng , Hailong Fu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Xin Liu , Chao-Xing Liu , Jun Zhu

Q. Ma et al.[1] recently reported a strong photocurrent associated with charge neutrality in graphene devices with non-uniform geometries, which they interpreted as an intrinsic photoresponse enhanced by the momentum non-relaxing nature of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Michael S. Fuhrer , Nikhil V. Medhekar

Ballistic transport occurs whenever electrons propagate without collisions deflecting their trajectory. It is normally observed in conductors with a negligible concentration of impurities, at low temperature, to avoid electron-phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Youngwoo Nam , Dong-Keun Ki , David Soler-Delgado , Alberto F. Morpurgo