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We introduce a two-dimensional model of spin-1/2 Dirac fermions in graphene subjected to a highly tunable electric field, which exhibits super-Klein tunneling. The electric field can be continuously interpolated between two limiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Alonso Contreras-Astorga , Francisco Correa , Luis Inzunza , Vit Jakubsky , Raul Valencia-Torres

Graphene, as a promising material of post-silicon electronics, opens a new paradigm for the novel electronic properties and device applications. On the other hand, the 2D feature of graphene makes it technically challenging to be integrated…

Man-made artificial graphene has attracted significant attention in the past few years due to the possibilities to construct designer Dirac fermions with unexpected topological properties and applications in nanoelectronics. Here we use a…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-10 Matti Ropo , Sami Paavilainen , Jaakko Akola , Esa Räsänen

The three dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetal, which has been predicted theoretically, is a new electronic state of matter. It can be viewed as 3D generalization of graphene, with a unique electronic structure in which conduction and valence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 Sergey Borisenko , Quinn Gibson , Danil Evtushinsky , Volodymyr Zabolotnyy , Bernd Buechner , Robert J. Cava

Inspired by the great development of graphene, more and more works have been conducted to seek new two-dimensional (2D) materials with Dirac cones. Although 2D Dirac materials possess many novel properties and physics, they are rare…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 Jinying Wang , Shibin Deng , Zhongfan Liu , Zhirong Liu

The physics of graphene is acting as a bridge between quantum field theory and condensed matter physics due to the special quality of the graphene quasiparticles behaving as massless two dimensional Dirac fermions. Moreover, the particular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. A. H. Vozmediano , M. I. Katsnelson , F. Guinea

We study the electronic structure of Dirac fermions scattered by double barrier potential in graphene under strain effect. We show that traction and compression strains can be used to generate fermion beam collimation, 1D channels, surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-01 El Bouâzzaoui Choubabi , Abdellatif Kamal , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

Dirac-like electronic states are the main engines powering the tremendous advances in research of graphene, topological insulators and other materials with these states. Zero effective mass, high carrier mobility and numerous applications…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-19 Vladimir Damljanovic , Rados Gajic , Igor Popov

The emerging two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit a wide range of electronic properties, ranging from insulating hexagonal boron nitride, semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides such as molybdenum disulfide, to semi-metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 Fengnian Xia , Han Wang , Di Xiao , Madan Dubey , Ashwin Ramasubramaniam

Due to its ultrahigh electron transmissivity in a wide electron energy range, molecular impermeability, high electrical conductivity and excellent mechanical stiffness the suspended graphene membranes appear to be a nearly ideal window…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Joshua D. Stoll , Andrei Kolmakov

Graphene with excellent 2D characters has been required to expand their potentials for meeting applicational demands in recent years. As one avenue, several approaches for fablicating 3D porous graphene network structures have been…

Two-dimensional and layered materials, such as graphene, have emerged in recent years for their potential use in several applications in technology, for example in electronics, bioelectronics, optoelectronics and related fields.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-10 Francesco Mercuri

An electron behaves as both a particle and a wave. On account of this it can be controlled in a similar way to a photon and electronic devices can be designed in analogy to those based on light when there is minimal excitation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Michael Forrester , Fedor Kusmartsev

Searching for new states of matter and unusual quasiparticles in emerging materials and especially low-dimensional systems is one of the major trends in contemporary condensed matter physics. Dirac materials, which host quasiparticles which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-13 C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

Devices made from two dimensional materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides exhibit remarkable electronic properties of interest to many subdisciplines of nanoscience. Owing to their 2D nature, their quality is highly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Michael A. Altvater , Shuang Wu , Zhenyuan Zhang , Tianhui Zhu , Guohong Li , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Eva Y. Andrei

While an increasing number of two-dimensional (2D) materials, including graphene and silicene, have already been realized, others have only been predicted. An interesting example is the two-dimensional form of silicon carbide (2D-SiC).…

We consider quantum rings realized in materials where the dynamics of charge carriers mimics that of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac electrons. A general theoretical description of the ring-subband structure is developed that applies to a range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-17 L. Gioia , U. Zülicke , M. Governale , R. Winkler

Electronic properties of materials are commonly described by quasiparticles that behave as non-relativistic electrons with a finite mass and obey the Schroedinger equation. Here we report a condensed matter system where electron transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim , S. V. Morozov , D. Jiang , M. I. Katsnelson , I. V. Grigorieva , S. V. Dubonos , A. A. Firsov

Periodically driven systems can host many interesting and intriguing phenomena. The irradiated two-dimensional Dirac systems, driven by circularly polarized light, are the most attractive thanks to intuitive physical view of the absorption…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Jin-Yu Zou , Bang-Gui Liu

Graphene, Silicene, $\mathrm{MoS}_2$ and other similar two-dimensional structures have unusual electronic properties that lend themselves to exotic device applications. These properties emanate from the fact that the electrons are endowed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Sushanta Dattagupta , Manvendra Singh