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In this Letter, we present experimental findings on electron-electron scattering in a two-dimensional moir'e heterostructure with tunable Fermi wave vector, reciprocal lattice vector, and band gap. We achieve this in high-mobility aligned…

We study the superlattice minibands produced by the interplay between moir\'e pattern induced by hexagonal BN substrate on graphene layer and the interlayer coupling in bilayer graphene with Bernal stacking (BLG). We compare moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 M. Mucha-Kruczynski , J. Wallbank , V. I. Fal'ko

Monolayer of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), commonly known as "white graphene" is a promising wide bandgap semiconducting material for deep-ultaviolet optoelectronic devices. In this report, the light absorption of a single layer hexagonal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-26 Aniruddha Konar , Raj Jana , Tian Fang , Guowang Li , William O'Brien , Debdeep Jena

Understanding water behaviour on 2D materials is crucial for sensing, microfluidics, and tribology. While water/graphene interactions are well studied, water on hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) remains largely unexplored. Despite structural…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Philipp Seiler , Anthony Payne , Neubi F. Xavier , Louie Slocombe , Marco Sacchi , Anton Tamtögl

For a system of two spatially separated monoatomic graphene layers encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride, we consider the drag effect between charge carriers in the Fermi liquid regime. Commonly, the phenomenon is described in terms of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-02 Bruno Amorim , Jürgen Schiefele , Fernando Sols , Francisco Guinea

High mobility single and few-layer graphene sheets are in many ways attractive as nanoelectronic circuit hosts but lack energy gaps, which are essential to the operation of field-effect transistors. One of the methods used to create gaps in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Hakseong Kim , Nicolas Leconte , Bheema L. Chittari , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Allan H. MacDonald , Jeil Jung , Suyong Jung

We investigate interlayer adhesion and relaxation at interfaces between graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) monolayers in van der Waals heterostructures. The adhesion potential between graphene and hBN is calculated as a function of…

The peculiar nature of electron scattering in graphene is among many exciting theoretical predictions for the physical properties of this material. To investigate electron scattering properties in a graphene plane, we have created a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 B. Huard , J. A. Sulpizio , N. Stander , K. Todd , B. Yang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

We investigate theoretically the electronic structure of graphene and boron nitride (BN) lateral heterostructures, which were fabricated in recent experiments. The first-principles density functional calculation demonstrates that a huge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-04 Dong Zhang , Maosheng Miao , Fuhua Yang , Haiqing Lin , Kai Chang

Stacking mismatches in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) nanostructures affect their photonic, mechanical, and thermal properties. To access information about the stacked configuration of layered ensembles, highly sophisticated techniques like…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-03 Luigi Cigarini , Michal Novotný , František Karlický

In this article, we have theoretically investigated the performance of graphene-hexagonal Boron Nitride hyper crystals to demonstrate all angle negative refraction.Hexagonal Boron Nitride, the latest natural hyperbolic material; can be a…

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a natural hyperbolic material which can also accommodate highly dispersive surface phonon-polariton modes. In this paper, we examine theoretically the mid-infrared optical properties of graphene-hBN…

Transport of massless Dirac fermions in graphene monolayers is analyzed in the presence of a combination of singular magnetic barriers and applied electrostatic potential. Extending a recently proposed (J Phys. Cond. Matt. Vol 21, 292204…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-20 Manish Sharma , Sankalpa Ghosh

The crystal structure of solid-state matter greatly affects its electronic properties. For example in multilayer graphene, precise knowledge of the lateral layer arrangement is crucial, since the most stable configurations, Bernal and…

The emergence of flat electronic bands and of the recently discovered strongly correlated and superconducting phases in twisted bilayer graphene crucially depends on the interlayer twist angle upon approaching the magic angle $\theta_M…

Vertical graphene heterostructures made up of graphene layers separated by BN spacers allow for novel ways of tuning the interactions between electrons. We study the possibility of electron pairing mediated by modified repulsive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-25 Francisco Guinea , Bruno Uchoa

We address the tunneling current in a graphene-hBN-graphene heterostructure as function of the twisting between the crystals. The twisting induces a modulation of the hopping amplitude between the graphene layers, that provides the extra…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Luis Brey

Electronic decoupling of graphene from metallic and semiconducting substrates via intercalation of different species is one of the widely used approaches in studies of graphene. In the present work the modification of the electronic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-24 Yong Zhou , Roman Ovcharenko , Beate Paulus , Yuriy Dedkov , Elena Voloshina

We use a van-der-Waals pickup technique to fabricate different heterostructures containing WSe$_2$(WS$_2$) and graphene. The heterostructures were structured by plasma etching, contacted by one-dimensional edge contacts and a topgate was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Tobias Völkl , Tobias Rockinger , Martin Drienovsky , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Dieter Weiss , Jonathan Eroms

Graphene-based vertical heterostructures, particularly stacks incorporated with other layered materials, are promising for nanoelectronics. The stacking of two model Dirac materials, graphene and topological insulator, can considerably…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-24 Liang Zhang , Yuan Yan , Han-Chun Wu , Dapeng Yu , Zhi-Min Liao