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Guided by the analogy to Mie scattering of light on small particles we show that the propagation of a Dirac-electron wave in graphene can be manipulated by a circular gated region acting as a quatum dot. Large dots enable electron lensing,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 R. L. Heinisch , F. X. Bronold , H. Fehske

We investigate the transport characteristics of monolayer graphene p-n junctions by means of the non-equilibrium Green's function technique. It is shown that thanks to the high interband tunneling of chiral fermions and to a finite bandgap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 V. Hung Nguyen , A. Bournel , P. Dollfus

We study the effect of trigonal warping on the focussing of electrons by n-p junctions in graphene. We find that perfect focussing, which was predicted for massless Dirac fermions, is only preserved for one specific sample orientation. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-25 K. J. A. Reijnders , M. I. Katsnelson

The p-n junctions dynamics in graphene channel induced by stripe domains nucleation, motion and reversal in a ferroelectric substrate is explored using self-consistent approach based on Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire phenomenology combined with…

Motivated by experiments confirming that the optical transparency of graphene is defined through the fine structure constant and that it could be fully explained within the relativistic Dirac fermions in 2D picture, in this article we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-28 Horacio Falomir , Marcelo Loewe , Enrique Muñoz , Alfredo Raya

We study the impact of the ferroelectric domain wall on the ballistic conductance of the single-layer graphene channel in the heterostructure graphene / physical gap / ferroelectric film using Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation. Both…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-09 Anna N. Morozovska , Eugene A. Eliseev , Maksym V. Strikha

We fabricate a graphene p-n-p heterojunction and exploit the coherence of weakly-confined Dirac quasiparticles to resolve the underlying scattering potential using low temperature scanning gate microscopy. The tip-induced perturbation to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 E. D. Herbschleb , R. K. Puddy , P. Marconcini , J. P. Griffiths , G. A. C. Jones , M. Macucci , C. G. Smith , M. R. Connolly

The conductance and the Fano factor in a graphene sheet in the ballistic regime are calculated. The electrostatic potential in the sheet is modeled by a trapezoid barrier, which allows to use the exact solution of the Dirac equation in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. B. Sonin

We present a method for obtaining quantum transport properties in graphene that uniquely combines three crucial features: microscopic treatment of charge disorder, fully quantum mechanical analysis of transport, and the ability to model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-12 E. Rossi , J. H. Bardarson , P. W. Brouwer , S. Das Sarma

Accessing intrinsic properties of a graphene device can be hindered by the influence of contact electrodes. Here, we capacitively couple graphene devices to superconducting resonant circuits and observe clear changes in the resonance-…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 V. Ranjan , S. Zihlmann , P. Makk , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , C. Schönenberger

We provide a semiclassical description of the electronic transport through graphene n-p junctions in the quantum Hall regime. A semiclassical approximation for the conductance is derived in terms of the various snake-like trajectories at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-21 Pierre Carmier , Caio Lewenkopf , Denis Ullmo

Amongst the wide spectrum of potential applications of graphene, ranging from transistors and chemical-sensors to nanoelectromechanical devices and composites, the field of photonics and optoelectronics is believed to be one of the most…

This article provides a pedagogical review on Klein tunneling in graphene, i.e. the peculiar tunneling properties of two-dimensional massless Dirac electrons. We consider two simple situations in detail: a massless Dirac electron incident…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-03 P. E. Allain , J. N. Fuchs

The combination of plasmonic nanoparticles and graphene enhances the responsivity and spectral selectivity of graphene-based photodetectors. However, the small area of the metal-graphene junction, where the induced electron-hole pairs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 T. J. Echtermeyer , S. Milana , U. Sassi , A. Eiden , M. Wu , E. Lidorikis , A. C. Ferrari

Andreev reflection at a superconductor and Klein tunneling through an n-p junction in graphene are two processes that couple electrons to holes -- the former through the superconducting pair potential Delta and the latter through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 C. W. J. Beenakker , A. R. Akhmerov , P. Recher , J. Tworzydlo

We explore theoretically the optomechanical interaction between a light field and a mechanical mode of ultracold fermionic atoms inside a Fabry-P\'{e}rot cavity. The low-lying phonon mode of the fermionic ensemble is a collective density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 R. Kanamoto , P. Meystre

A graphene $pn$ junction is studied theoretically in the presence of both intrinsic and Rashba spin-orbit couplings. We show that a crossover from perfect reflection to perfect transmission is achieved at normal incidence by tuning the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Yamakage , K. -I. Imura , J. Cayssol , Y. Kuramoto

When a single-layer graphene sheet is contacted with metallic electrodes, tunnel barriers are formed as a result of the doping of graphene by the metal in the contact region. If the Fermi energy level is modulated by a gate voltage, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-11 Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

We study the tunneling effect of Dirac fermions in a graphene sheet by introducing a potential barrier in a region of width $D$ exposed to laser field. This sheet is placed on a boron nitride/ferromagnetic substrate such as cobalt or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Rachid El Aitouni , Ahmed Jellal , Pablo Díaz , David Laroze

We consider conductance mapping of the snake-orbits confined along the n-p junction defined in graphene by the electrostatic doping in the quantum Hall regime. We explain the periodicity of conductance oscillations at the magnetic field and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 K. Kolasiński , A. Mreńca-Kolasińska , B. Szafran