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Since its discovery, graphene has been a promising material for spintronics: its low spin-orbit coupling, negligible hyperfine interaction, and high electron mobility are obvious advantages for transporting spin information over long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Jose H. Garcia , Marc Vila , Aron W. Cummings , Stephan Roche

Among the van der Waals heterostructures, graphene/h-BN heterostructure is an appropriate candidate for 2D nanoelectronic devices. In this paper, using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulation approach, heat transport in bilayer…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-31 M. Sadegh Alborzi , Ali Rajabpour

While heterostructures are ubiquitous tools enabling new physics and device functionalities, the palette of available materials has never been richer. Combinations of two emerging material classes, two-dimensional materials and topological…

Graphene plasmons were predicted to possess ultra-strong field confinement and very low damping at the same time, enabling new classes of devices for deep subwavelength metamaterials, single-photon nonlinearities, extraordinarily strong…

The ground state of a graphene sheet at charge neutrality in a perpendicular magnetic field remains enigmatic, with various experiments supporting canted antiferromagnetic, bond ordered, and even charge density wave phases. A promising…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Arup Kumar Paul , Manas Ranjan Sahu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , J. K. Jain , Ganpathy Murthy , Anindya Das

Graphene spintronics offers a promising route to achieve low power 2D electronics for next generation classical and quantum computation. As device length scales are reduced to the limit of the electron mean free path, the transport…

Current interest in two-dimensional materials extends from graphene to others systems like single-layer hexagonal boron-nitride (h-BN), for the possibility of making heterogeneous structures to achieve exceptional properties that cannot be…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-04 Jiangtao Wu , Baolin Wang , Yujie Wei , Ronggui Yang , Mildred Dresselhaus

We report on the fabrication and transport characterization of atomically-precise single molecule devices consisting of a magnetic porphyrin covalently wired by graphene nanoribbon electrodes. The tip of a scanning tunneling microscope was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-16 Jingcheng Li , Niklas Friedrich , Nestor Merino , Dimas G. de Oteyza , Diego Peña , David Jacob , Jose Ignacio Pascual

Van der Waals encapsulation of two-dimensional materials within hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) stacks has proven to be a promising way to create ultrahigh-performance electronic devices. However, contemporary approaches for achieving van…

We review our recent work on spin injection, transport and relaxation in graphene. The spin injection and transport in single layer graphene (SLG) were investigated using nonlocal magnetoresistance (MR) measurements. Spin injection was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-13 Wei Han , K. M. McCreary , K. Pi , W. H. Wang , Yan Li , H. Wen , J. R. Chen , R. K. Kawakami

We demonstrate that freeing a single-atom thick layer of hexagonal boron nitride (hbn) from tight chemical bonding to a Ni(111) thin film grown on a W(110) substrate can be achieved by intercalation of Au atoms into the interface. This…

We present transport measurements on high-mobility bilayer graphene fully encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride. We show two terminal quantum Hall effect measurements which exhibit full symmetry broken Landau levels at low magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 S. Engels , B. Terrés , A. Epping , T. Khodkov , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , B. Beschoten , C. Stampfer

Electronic carriers in graphene show a high carrier mobility at room temperature. Thus, this system is widely viewed as a potential future charge-based high-speed electronic-material to complement- or replace- silicon. At the same time, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 R. G. Mani , J. Hankinson , C. Berger , W. A. de Heer

The unusual electronic properties of single-layer graphene make it a promising material system for fundamental advances in physics, and an attractive platform for new device technologies. Graphene's spin transport properties are expected to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-23 Mark B. Lundeberg , Joshua A. Folk

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a promising material for implementation in spintronics due to a large band gap, low spin-orbit coupling, and a small lattice mismatch to graphene and to close-packed surfaces of fcc-Ni(111) and…

We report a proof-of-concept study of extraordinary magnetoresistance (EMR) in devices of monolayer graphene encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride, having metallic edge contacts and a central metal shunt. Extremely large EMR values,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Bowen Zhou , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Erik A. Henriksen

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) has long been recognized as an ideal substrate for electronic devices due to its dangling-bond-free surface, insulating nature and thermal/chemical stability. Therefore, to analyse the lattice structure and…

We present a fast method to fabricate high quality heterostructure devices by picking up crystals of arbitrary sizes. Bilayer graphene is encapsulated with hexagonal boron nitride to demonstrate this approach, showing good electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 P. J. Zomer , M. H. D. Guimarães , J. C. Brant , N. Tombros , B. J. van Wees

Dielectrics are insulating materials used in many different electronic devices and play an important role in all of them. Current advanced electronic devices use dielectric materials with a high dielectric constant and avoid high leakage…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-17 Fei Hui

We report a double-layer electronic system made of two closely-spaced but electrically isolated graphene monolayers sandwiched in boron nitride. For large carrier densities in one of the layers, the adjacent layer no longer exhibits a…