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We theoretically investigate the electron tunneling in dual-gated bilayer graphene-based $n/p$ junctions. It is shown that a band gap is introduced by tuning the gate voltage, which modifies the pseudospin polarization and breaks anti-Klein…

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We report a first principles investigation of photocurrent generation by graphene PN junctions. The junctions are formed by either chemically doping with nitrogen and boron atoms, or by controlling gate voltages. Non-equilibrium Green's…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jingzhe Chen , Yibin Hu , Hong Guo

Thermoelectric readout in a graphene THz radiation detector requires a p-n junction across the graphene channel. Even without an intentional p-n junction, two latent junctions can exist in the vicinity of the electrodes/antennas through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 K. Indykiewicz , C. Bray , C. Consejo , F. Teppe , S. Danilov , S. D. Ganichev , A. Yurgens

Cold atoms in an optical lattice with brick-wall geometry have been used to mimic graphene, a two-dimensional material with characteristic Dirac excitations. Here we propose to bring such artificial graphene into the proximity of a second…

Anomalous gating effects-such as gate ineffectiveness and pronounced hysteresis-have been observed in graphene-based systems encapsulated in boron nitride (BN) and linked to a possible ferroelectric state. However, their origin, stability,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 G. Maffione , L. S. Farrar , M. Kapfer , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , H. Aubin , D. Mailly , R. Ribeiro-Palau

Thermoelectric effects in $p-n$ junctions are widely used for energy generation with thermal gradients, creation of compact Peltier refrigerators and, most recently, for sensitive detection of infrared and terahertz radiation. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Aleksandr S. Petrov , Dmitry Svintsov

We propose and analize a graphene tunneling transit time device based on a heterostructure with a lateral p-i-n junction electrically induced in the graphene layer by the applied gate voltages of different polarity. The depleted i-section…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Ryzhii , M. Ryzhii , V. Mitin , M. S. Shur

We report the infrared transmission measurement on electrically gated twisted bilayer graphene. The optical absorption spectrum clearly manifests the dramatic changes such as the splitting of inter-linear-band absorption step, the shift of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-11 Kwangnam Yu , Van Luan Nguyen , Tae Soo Kim , Jiwon Jeon , Jiho Kim , Pilkyung Moon , Young Hee Lee , E. J. Choi

Graphene electrodes provide a suitable alternative to metal contacts in molecular conduction nanojunctions. Here, we propose to use graphene electrodes as a platform for effective photon assisted tunneling through molecular conduction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Boris Fainberg

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…

For future on-chip communication schemes, it is essential to integrate nanoscale materials with an ultrafast optoelectronic functionality into high-frequency circuits. The atomically thin graphene has been widely demonstrated to be suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Andreas Brenneis , Felix Schade , Simon Drieschner , Florian Heimbach , Helmut Karl , Jose A. Garrido , Alexander W. Holleitner

We present transport measurements on a bilayer graphene sheet with homogeneous back gate and split top gate. The electronic transport data indicates the capability to direct electron flow through graphene nanostructures purely defined by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 S. Dröscher , C. Barraud , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

While the exponential decay of tunneling probability with barrier thickness is well known, the accompanying oscillations with thickness have been comparatively less explored. Using a tight binding model, we investigate an AB-stacked bilayer…

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We report compact, scalable, high-performance, waveguide integrated graphene-based photodetectors (GPDs) for telecom and datacom applications, not affected by dark current. To exploit the photothermoelectric (PTE) effect, our devices rely…

Detection of infrared light is central to diverse applications in security, medicine, astronomy, materials science, and biology. Often different materials and detection mechanisms are employed to optimize performance in different spectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 J. Yan , M. -H. Kim , J. A. Elle , A. B. Sushkov , G. S. Jenkins , H. M. Milchberg , M. S. Fuhrer , H. D. Drew

Electrostatic confinement of charge carriers in bilayer graphene provides a unique platform for carbon-based spin, charge or exchange qubits. By exploiting the possibility to induce a band gap with electrostatic gating, we form a versatile…

The semiconducting p-n junction is a simple device structure with great relevance for electronic and optoelectronic applications. The successful integration of low-dimensional materials in electronic circuits has opened the way forward for…

The motion of massless Dirac-electrons in graphene mimics the propagation of photons. This makes it possible to control the charge-carriers with components based on geometrical-optics and has led to proposals for an all-graphene…

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

Low-energy excitations in graphene exhibit relativistic properties due to the linear dispersion relation close to the Dirac points in the first Brillouin zone. Two of the Dirac points located at opposite corners of the first Brillouin zone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 T. Sekera , C. Bruder , E. J. Mele , R. P. Tiwari