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The existence of inequivalent valleys K and K' in the momentum space of two-dimensional hexagonal lattices provides a new electronic degree of freedom, the manipulation of which can potentially lead to new types of electronics, in analogy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 J. Li , K. Wang , K. J. McFaul , Z. Zern , Y. F. Ren , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Z. H. Qiao , J. Zhu

Bilayer graphene has drawn significant attention due to the opening of a band gap in its low energy electronic spectrum, which offers a promising route to electronic applications. The gap can be either tunable through an external electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Gregory M. Rutter , Suyong Jung , Nikolai N. Klimov , David B. Newell , Nikolai B. Zhitenev , Joseph A. Stroscio

We show simultaneous p and n type carrier injection in bilayer graphene channel by varying the longitudinal bias across the channel and the top gate voltage. The top gate is applied electrochemically using solid polymer electrolyte and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-08 Biswanath Chakraborty , Anindya Das , A. K. Sood

We theoretically analyse the possibility to electrostatically confine electrons in circular quantum dot arrays, impressed on contacted graphene nanoribbons by top gates. Utilising exact numerical techniques, we compute the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Holger Fehske , Georg Hager , Andreas Pieper

The rich phase diagram of quantum spin-ladder systems has attracted much attention in the theoretical literature. The progress in experimental realisations of this fascinating physics however has been much slower. While materials with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 Victoria Mazo , Chia-Wei Huang , Efrat Shimshoni , Sam T. Carr , H. A. Fertig

The inhomogenous real-space electronic structure of gapless and gapped disordered bilayer graphene is calculated in the presence of quenched charge impurities. For gapped bilayer graphene we find that for current experimental conditions the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 E. Rossi , S. Das Sarma

Strong interaction between electrons in two-dimensional systems in the presence of a high magnetic field gives rise to fractional quantum Hall states that host quasiparticles with fractional charge and fractional exchange statistics. Here,…

We derive an effective two-dimensional Hamiltonian to describe the low energy electronic excitations of a graphite bilayer, which correspond to chiral quasiparticles with a parabolic dispersion exhibiting Berry phase $2\pi$. Its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Edward McCann , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We present measurements of the electronic compressibility, $K$, of bilayer graphene in both zero and finite magnetic fields up to 14 T, and as a function of both the carrier density and electric field perpendicular to the graphene sheet.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-28 E. A. Henriksen , J. P. Eisenstein

We study the electronic transport properties of a dual-gated bilayer graphene nanodevice via first principles calculations. We investigate the electric current as a function of gate length and temperature. Under the action of an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-03 J. E. Padilha , Matheus P. Lima , A. J. R. da Silva , A. Fazzio

Measurement and theory of the two-terminal conductance of monolayer and bilayer graphene in the quantum Hall regime are compared. We examine features of conductance as a function of gate voltage that allow monolayer, bilayer, and gapped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-24 J. R. Williams , D. A. Abanin , L. DiCarlo , L. S. Levitov , C. M. Marcus

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

Realization of logic circuits in graphene with an energy gap (EG) remains one of the main challenges for graphene electronics. We found that large transport EGs (>100 meV) can be fulfilled in dual-gated bilayer graphene underneath a simple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-25 Song-Lin Li , Hisao Miyazaki , Hidefumi Hiura , Chuan Liu , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi

Bilayer graphene provides a unique platform to explore the rich physics in quantum Hall effect. The unusual combination of spin, valley and orbital degeneracy leads to interesting symmetry broken states with electric and magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Manabendra Kuiri , Anindya Das

We study ballistic transport in periodically gated bilayer graphene as a candidate for a 2D electronic metamaterial. Our calculations use the equilibrium Green function formalism and take into account quantum corrections to charge density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Xianqing Lin , David Tomanek

We fabricate twisted double bilayer graphene devices with zero twist angle and a set of local top and bottom gates aligned perpendicularly to each other. A 1D PN junction can be electrostatically defined when the gate voltages applied to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Wei Ren , Xi Zhang , Shiyu Guo , Jeongsoo Park , Jack Tavakley , Daochen Long , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ke Wang

We demonstrate that, at the onset of conduction, an electrostatically defined quantum wire in bilayer graphene (BLG) with an interlayer asymmetry gap may act as a 1D semimetal, due to the multiple minivalley dispersion of its lowest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Thomas L M Lane , Angelika Knothe , Vladimir I Fal'ko

We present a study on the lifting of degeneracy of the size-quantized energy levels in an electrostatically defined quantum point contact in bilayer graphene by the application of in-plane magnetic fields. We observe a Zeeman spin splitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Vanessa Gall , Rainer Kraft , Igor V. Gornyi , Romain Danneau

Twisted two-dimensional structures open new possibilities in band structure engineering. At magic twist angles, flat bands emerge, which give a new drive to the field of strongly correlated physics. In twisted double bilayer graphene dual…

We report on a strongly coupled bilayer graphene (BLG) - \bise\ device with a junction resistance of less than 1.5 k$\Omega\mu$m$^2$. This device exhibits unique behavior at the interface, which cannot be attributed to either material in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-23 Ayelet Zalic , Tom Dvir , Hadar Steinberg