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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

We systematically investigate the transmission of charge carriers across the grain-boundary defects in polycrystalline graphene by means of the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism within the tight-binding approximation. Calculations reveal a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-05 Fernando Gargiulo , Oleg V. Yazyev

We present a theoretical study of quantum resonances in the ballistic transport of graphene based $N$-$P$-$N$ junction subject to an externally applied electromagnetic field (EF). By making use of the Floquet analysis and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. V. Fistul , K. B. Efetov

We describe the numerical modeling of current flow in graphene heterojunctions, within the Keldysh Landauer Non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. By implementing a $k$-space approach along the transverse modes, coupled with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Redwan N. Sajjad , Carlos Polanco , Avik W. Ghosh

We have developed a device fabrication process to pattern graphene into nanostructures of arbitrary shape and control their electronic properties using local electrostatic gates. Electronic transport measurements have been used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-14 Barbaros Özyilmaz , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Dmitri Efetov , Dmitri A. Abanin , Leonid S. Levitov , Philip Kim

We report distinctive magnetotransport properties of a graphene p-n-p junction prepared by controlled diffusion of metallic contacts. In most cases, materials deposited on a graphene surface introduce substantial carrier scattering, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Cheng-Hua Liu , Po-Hsiang Wang , Tak-Pong Woo , Fu-Yu Shih , Shih-Ching Liou , Po-Hsun Ho , Chun-Wei Chen , Chi-Te Liang , Wei-Hua Wang

We analyze the bound-state spectra of mass-profile quantum dots in graphene, a system at current experimental reach. Homogeneous perpendicular magnetic fields are also considered which result in breaking the valley degeneracy. The spectra…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-24 A. Gutiérrez-Rubio , T. Stauber

We report on the observation of magnetoresistance oscillations in graphene p-n junctions. The oscillations have been observed for six samples, consisting of single-layer and bilayer graphene, and persist up to temperatures of 30 K, where…

Using low-temperature high-magnetic-field scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM/STS), we systematically study a graphene quantum dot (GQD) defined by a circular graphene p-p junction. Inside the GQD, we observe a series of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Ya-Ning Ren , Jiao-Jiao Zhou , Zhong-Qiu Fu , Hai-Xuan Cheng , Si-Yu Li , Zi-Han Guo , Yi-Wen Liu , Chao Yan , Qi-Qi Guo , Jia-Bin Qiao , Yu Zhang , Sheng Han , Hua Jiang , Lin He

In this work we develop a time-dependent extension of the Landauer-B\"uttiker approach to study transient dynamics in time-dependent quantum transport through molecular junctions. A key feature of the approach is that it provides a closed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-07 Riku Tuovinen , Enrico Perfetto , Gianluca Stefanucci , Robert van Leeuwen

We investigate the low energy continuum limit theory for electrons in a graphene sheet under strain. We use the quantum field theory in curved spaces to analyze the effect of the system deformations into an effective gauge field. We study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Enrique Arias , Alexis R. Hernández , Caio Lewenkopf

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

We investigate the electronic transport properties of unbiased and biased bilayer graphene nanoribbon in n-p and n-n junctions subject to a perpendicular magnetic field. Using the non-equilibrium Green's function method and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 H. Hatami , N. Abedpour , A. Qaiumzadeh , Reza Asgari

We use a quantum-dynamical model to investigate the optical response of graphene under low excitation power. Ultrafast carrier relaxation processes, which play an important role for understanding the optical response of graphene, are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-27 Zheshen Zhang , Paul L. Voss

Just a few of the promising applications of graphene Corbino pnJ devices include two-dimensional Dirac fermion microscopes, custom programmable quantized resistors, and mesoscopic valley filters. In some cases, device scalability is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Chieh-I Liu , Dominick S. Scaletta , Dinesh K. Patel , Mattias Kruskopf , Antonio Levy , Heather M. Hill , Albert F. Rigosi

The quantum Hall and longitudinal resistances in multi-terminal ferromagnetic graphene p-n junctions under a perpendicular magnetic field are investigated. In the Hall measurements, the transverse contacts are assumed to be located at p-n…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Lei Xu , Jin An , Chang-De Gong

Monolayer graphene provides an ideal material to explore one of the fundamental light-field driven interference effects: Landau-Zener-St\"uckelberg interference. However, direct observation of the resulting interference patterns in momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Q. Z. Li , P. Elliott , J. K. Dewhurst , S. Sharma , S. Shallcross

We report the first experimental study of the quantum interference correction to the conductivity of bilayer graphene. Low-field, positive magnetoconductivity due to the weak localisation effect is investigated at different carrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-14 R. V. Gorbachev , F. V. Tikhonenko , A. S. Mayorov , D. W. Horsell , A. K. Savchenko

The formalism of the nonperturbative description of transport phenomena in graphene on the framework of the quantum kinetic equation for the Schwinger-like process is compared with the description on the basis of Zener-Klein tunneling. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 A. Panferov , S. Smolyansky , D. Blaschke , N. Gevorgyan

The ability to create high-quality lateral p-n junctions at nanometer length scales is essential for the next generation of two-dimensional (2D) electronic and plasmonic devices. Using a charge-transfer heterostructure consisting of…