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We experimentally investigate electrical transport properties of graphene, which is a two dimensional (2D) conductor with relativistic energy dispersion relation. By investigating single- and bi-layer graphene devices with different aspect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Miao , S. Wijeratne , U. Coskun , Y. Zhang , C. N. Lau

The resistance of dual-gated bilayer graphene is measured as a function of temperature and gating electric fields in the Corbino geometry which precludes edge transport. The temperature-dependent resistance is quantitatively described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-07 Jun Yan , Michael S. Fuhrer

In the presence of a circularly polarized mid-infrared radiation graphene develops dynamical band gaps in its quasi-energy band structure and becomes a Floquet insulator. Here we analyze how topologically protected edge states arise inside…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Gonzalo Usaj , P. M. Perez-Piskunow , L. E. F. Foa Torres , C. A. Balseiro

Using the first principles calculations, we show that mechanically tunable electronic energy gap is realizable in bilayer graphene if different homogeneous strains are applied to the two layers. It is shown that the size of energy gap can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-13 Seon-Myeong Choi , Seung-Hoon Jhi , Young-Woo Son

There exist experiments indicating that at certain conditions, such as an appropriate substrate, a gap of the order of 10 meV can be opened at the Dirac points of a quasiparticle spectrum of graphene. We demonstrate that the opening of such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-23 S. G. Sharapov , A. A. Varlamov

Graphene has shown great application potentials as the host material for next generation electronic devices. However, despite its intriguing properties, one of the biggest hurdles for graphene to be useful as an electronic material is its…

Materials with flat electronic bands often exhibit exotic quantum phenomena owing to strong correlations. Remarkably, an isolated low-energy flat band can be induced in bilayer graphene by simply rotating the layers to 1.1$^{\circ}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Matthew Yankowitz , Shaowen Chen , Hryhoriy Polshyn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , David Graf , Andrea F. Young , Cory R. Dean

We evaluate the electronic transmission and conductance in bilayer graphene through a finite number of potential barriers. Further, we evaluate the dispersion relation in a bilayer graphene superlattice with a periodic potential applied to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-21 M. Barbier , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters , J. Milton Pereira

For graphene to be used in semiconductor applications, a wide energy gap of at least 0.5 eV at the Dirac energy must be opened without the introduction of atomic defects. However, such a wide energy gap has not been realized in graphene,…

We show analytically that the ability of Dirac materials to localize an electron in both a barrier and a well can be utilized to open a pseudo-gap in graphene's spectrum. By using narrow top-gates as guiding potentials, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 R. R. Hartmann , M. E. Portnoi

Charge-neutral conducting systems represent a class of materials with unusual properties governed by electron-hole (e-h) interactions. Depending on the quasiparticles' statistics, band structure, and device geometry these semimetallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 D. A. Bandurin , A. Principi , I. Y. Phinney , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , P. Jarillo-Herrero

We investigate theoretically the interplay between the effects of a perpendicular electric field and incommensurability at the interface on the electronic properties of a heterostructure of bilayer graphene and a semiconducting substrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 D. J. Leech , M. Mucha-Kruczyński

We demonstrate a tunneling and rectification behavior in bilayer graphene. A stepped dielectric top gate creates a spatially modulated electric field, which opens the band gap in the graphene and produces an insulating region at the p-n…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-19 Hisao Miyazaki , Michael Lee , Song-Lin Li , Hidefumi Hiura , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi , Akinobu Kanda

Band gap engineering in graphene may open the routes towards transistor devices in which electric current can be switched off and on at will. One may, however, ask if a semiconducting band gap alone is sufficient to quench the current in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 G. Tkachov , Martina Hentschel

Among many remarkable qualities of graphene, its electronic properties attract particular interest due to a massless chiral character of charge carriers, which leads to such unusual phenomena as metallic conductivity in the limit of no…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson , A. K. Geim

Electronic properties of the graphene layer sandwiched between two hexagonal boron nitride sheets have been studied using the first-principles calculations and the minimal tight-binding model. It is shown that for the ABC-stacked structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-10 J. Slawinska , I. Zasada , P. Kosinski , Z. Klusek

It has been predicted that application of a strong electric field perpendicular to the plane of bilayer graphene can induce a significant band gap. We have measured the optical conductivity of bilayer graphene with an efficient electrolyte…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kin Fai Mak , Chun Hung Lui , Jie Shan , Tony F. Heinz

In this Letter, we derive an effective theory of graphene on a hexagonal Boron Nitride (h-BN) substrate. We show that the h-BN substrate generically opens a spectral gap in graphene despite the lattice mismatch. The origin of that gap is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 M. Kindermann , Bruno Uchoa , D. L. Miller

Graphene -a recently discovered one-atom-thick layer of graphite- constitutes a new model system in condensed matter physics, because it is the first material in which charge carriers behave as massless chiral relativistic particles. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hubert B. Heersche , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Jeroen B. Oostinga , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen , Alberto F. Morpurgo

We investigated proximity-induced superconductivity in a graphene-insulating InO bilayer system through gate-controlled transport measurements. Distinct oscillations in the differential conductance are observed across both the electron and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-08 Yuxiao Wu , Udit Khanna , Eyal Walach , Efrat Shimshoni , Aviad Frydman