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Hydrodynamic electron transport arises when carrier kinetics are dominated by interelectron collisions rather than the relaxation of momentum out of the electron system. In recent years, signatures of electron hydrodynamics have been…

The evolution of electronic wave packets (WPs) through grain boundaries (GBs) of various structures in graphene was investigated by the numerical solution of the time-dependent Schroedinger equation. WPs were injected from a simulated STM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-12 Péter Vancsó , Géza I. Márk , Philippe Lambin , Alexandre Mayer , Yong-Sung Kim , Chanyong Hwang , László P. Biró

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

The topological properties of gapped graphene have been explored for valleytronics applications. Prior transport experiments indicated their topological nature through large nonlocal resistance in Hall-bar devices, but the origin of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Hyeon-Woo Jeong , Seong Jang , Sein Park , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Gil-Ho Lee

Superlattices (SLs) in monolayer and bilayer graphene, formed by spatially periodic potential variations, lead to a modified bandstructure with extra finite-energy and zero-energy Dirac fermions with tunable anisotropic velocities. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Si Wu , Matthew Killi , Arun Paramekanti

Staking layered materials revealed to be a very powerful method to tailor their electronic properties. It has indeed been theoretically and experimentally shown that twisted bilayers of graphene (tBLG) with a rotation angle $\theta$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Omid Faizy Namarvar , Ahmed Missaoui , Laurence Magaud , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

The Hall conductivity $\sigma_{xy}$ of many condensed matter systems presents a step structure when a uniform perpendicular magnetic field is applied. We report the quantum Hall effect in buckled AB-bottom-top bilayer silicene and its…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Thi-Nga Do , Godfrey Gumbs , Po-Hsin Shih , Danhong Huang , Ming-Fa Lin

We study ballistic transport in bilayer graphene junctions and show how electrostatic gating, interlayer bias, and homogeneous strain provide complementary control over electron transmission. In the absence of strain, transport is governed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Dan-Na Liu , Jun Zheng , Pierre A. Pantaleon

Electron transport in bilayer graphene placed under a perpendicular electric field is revealed experimentally. Steep increase of the resistance is observed under high electric field; however, the resistance does not diverge even at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-16 Hisao Miyazaki , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi , Akinobu Kanda , Minoru Otani , Susumu Okada

Bilayer graphene has the very interesting property of an energy gap tunable with the vertical electric field. We propose an analytical model for a bilayer-graphene field-effect transistor, suitable for exploring the design parameter space…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Martina Cheli , Gianluca Fiori , Giuseppe Iannaccone

In Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BBG), the Landau levels give rise to an intimate connection between valley and layer degrees of freedom. Adding a moir\'e superlattice potential enriches the BBG physics with the formation of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Yungi Jeong , Hangyeol Park , Taeho Kim , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jeil Jung , Joonho Jang

Here, the frequency degree of freedom is introduced into valley photonic crystals with dual band gaps. Based on the high-order plane wave expansion model, we derive an effective Hamiltonian which characterizes dual band gaps. Metallic…

Tunneling conductance between two bilayer graphene (BLG) sheets separated by 2 nm-thick insulating barrier was measured in two devices with the twist angles between BLGs less than 1{\deg}. At small bias voltages, the tunneling occurs with…

We extend the low-energy effective two-band Hamiltonian for electrons in bilayer graphene (E. McCann, V. I. Fal'ko, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2006) 86805) to include a spatially dependent electrostatic potential. We find that this Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-12 C. J. Poole

Valleytronics, which makes use of the two valleys in graphenes, attracts considerable attention and a valley filter is expected to be the central component in valleytronics. We propose the application of the graphene valley filter using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Mitsuharu Uemoto , Masaki Nishiura , Tomoya Ono

We employ dual-gated 30{\deg}-twisted bilayer graphene to demonstrate simultaneous ultra-high mobility and conductivity (up to 40 mS at room temperature), unattainable in a single-layer of graphene. We find quantitative agreement with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Giulia Piccinini , Vaidotas Mišeikis , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Camilla Coletti , Sergio Pezzini

In gapped Dirac materials, the topological current associated with each valley can flow in opposite directions creating long-range charge-neutral valley currents. We report valley currents in hBN/bilayer-graphene heterostructures with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Takuya Iwasaki , Yoshifumi Morita , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi

The tunnel current (TC) and valley current (VC) are crucial in realizing high-speed and energy-saving in next-generation devices. This paper presents the TC and VC link in the partially overlapped graphene. Under the vertical electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Ryo Tamura

Nonlinear transport plays a vital role in probing the quantum geometry of Bloch electrons, valley chirality, and carrier scattering mechanisms. The nonlinear Hall effect, characterized by a nonlinear scaling of Hall voltage with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Xin Liao , Xing-Yu Liu , An-Qi Wang , Qing Yin , Tong-Yang Zhao , Zhi-Min Liao

The paper presents a theoretical description of the effects of strain induced by out-of-plane deformations on charge distributions and transport on graphene. A review of a continuum model for electrons using the Dirac formalism is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Dawei Zhai , Nancy Sandler