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Graphene has demonstrated great promise for future electronics technology as well as fundamental physics applications because of its linear energy-momentum dispersion relations which cross at the Dirac point. However, accessing the physics…

We numerically investigate the impact of boron nitride (BN) domains on the transport properties of graphene nanoribbons with lengths ranging from a few to several hundreds of nanometers and lateral size up to 4 nm. By varying the size and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla , Stephan Roche

While boron nitride (BN) substrates have been utilized to achieve high electronic mobilities in graphene field effect transistors, it is unclear how other layered two dimensional (2D) crystals influence the electronic performance of…

Chemical and structural diversity present in hexagonal boron nitride ((h-BN) and graphene hybrid nanostructures provide new avenues for tuning various properties for their technological applications. In this paper we investigate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Alper Kinaci , Justin B. Haskins , Cem Sevik , Tahir Cagin

The quantum Hall (QH) effect in two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) is conventionally observed at liquid-helium temperatures, where lattice vibrations are strongly suppressed and bulk carrier scattering is dominated by disorder.…

Zigzag edges of graphene have long been predicted to exhibit magnetic electronic state near the Fermi level, which can cause spin-related phenomena and offer unique potentials for graphene-based spintronics. However, the magnetic conduction…

The hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) encapsulation has been widely used in the electronics applications of 2D materials to improve device performance by protecting 2D materials against contamination and degradation. It is often assumed that…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-18 Xu Han , Jiangxiazi Lin , Junwei Liu , Ning Wang , Ding Pan

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a promising two-dimensional insulator with a large band gap and low density of charged impurities that is isostructural and isoelectronic with graphene. Here we report the chemical and atomic-scale…

Hexagonal boron nitride ($h$-BN), with its strong in-plane bonding and good lattice match to hcp and fcc metals, offers a promising alternative barrier material for magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). Here, we investigate spin-dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-01 Ivan Kurniawan , Keisuke Masuda , Yoshio Miura

We have studied electrical transport as a function of carrier density, temperature and bias in multi-terminal devices consisting of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) encapsulated titanium trisulfide (TiS$_3$) sheets. Through the encapsulation…

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a prototypical high-quality two-dimensional insulator and an ideal material to study tunneling phenomena, as it can be easily integrated in vertical van der Waals devices. For spintronic devices, its…

Increased power density in modern microelectronics has led to thermal management challenges which can cause degradation in performance and reliability. In many high-power electronic devices, the power consumption and heat removal are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 David B. Brown , Thomas L. Bougher , Xiang Zhang , Pulickel Ajayan , Baratunde A. Cola , Satish Kumar

We present a theoretical study of electronic and thermal transport in polycrystalline heterostructures combining graphene (G) and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) grains of varying size and distribution. By increasing the hBN grain density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 J. E. Barrios Vargas , B. Mortazavi , A. W. Cummings , R. Martinez-Gordillo , M. Pruneda , L. Colombo , T. Rabczuk , S. Roche

The thermoelectric properties of in plane heterostructures made of Graphene and hexagonal Boron Nitride (BN) have been investigated by means of atomistic simulation. The heterostructures consist in armchair graphene nanoribbons to the sides…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Van-Truong Tran , Jérôme Saint Martin , Philippe Dollfus

Graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (G/$h$-BN) heterostructures offer an excellent platform for developing nanoelectronic devices and for exploring correlated states in graphene under modulation by a periodic superlattice potential. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Jiayu Li , Li Lin , Guang-Yao Huang , N. Kang , Jincan Zhang , Hailin Peng , Zhongfan Liu , H. Q. Xu

The recent observed anomalous Hall effect in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) aligned to hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and unconventional ferroelectricity in Bernal bilayer graphene sandwiched by hBN present a new platform to tune…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Min Long , Zhen Zhan , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Jose Ángel Silva-Guillén , Francisco Guinea , Shengjun Yuan

We characterize the transport properties of functionalized graphene nanoribbons using extensive first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) that encompass both monovalent and divalent ligands, hydrogenated defects…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-08 Giovanni Cantele , Young-Su Lee , Domenico Ninno , Nicola Marzari

The encapsulation of graphene in hexagonal boron nitride provides graphene on substrate with excellent material quality. Here, we present the fabrication and characterization of Hall sensor elements based on graphene boron nitride…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Jan Dauber , Abhay A. Sagade , Martin Oellers , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Daniel Neumaier , Christoph Stampfer

We present spin transport studies on bi- and trilayer graphene non-local spin-valves which have been fabricated by a bottom-up fabrication method. By this technique, spin injection electrodes are first deposited onto Si$^{++}$/SiO$_2$…

We study the room-temperature electrical control of charge and spin transport in high-quality bilayer graphene, fully encapsulated with hBN and contacted via 1D spin injectors. We show that spin transport in this device architecture is…

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