English
Related papers

Related papers: Enhanced Specular Andreev reflection in bilayer gr…

200 papers

Bilayer graphene (two coupled graphitic monolayers arranged according to Bernal stacking) is a two-dimensional gapless semiconductor with a peculiar electronic spectrum different from the Dirac spectrum in the monolayer material. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Kechedzhi , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , E. McCann , B. L. Altshuler

Andreev-reflection dominated transport is demonstrated in Al/n-In0.38Ga0.62As superconductor-semiconductor junctions grown by molecular beam epitaxy on GaAs(001). High junction transparency was achieved in low-doped devices by exploiting Si…

An general survey of the superconducting (SC) gap study in the title compounds by point-contact (PC) spectroscopy is presented. The SC gap was determined from dV/dI of PCs employing the well-known theory of conductivity for normal…

We identify graphene as a system where chiral superconductivity can be realized. Chiral superconductivity involves a pairing gap that winds in phase around the Fermi surface, breaking time reversal symmetry. We consider a unique situation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Rahul Nandkishore , Leonid Levitov , Andrey Chubukov

The recent development of superconducting spintronics has revealed the spin-triplet superconducting proximity effect from a spin-singlet superconductor into a spin-polarized normal metal. In addition recently superconducting junctions using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Sadashige Matsuo , Kento Ueda , Shoji Baba , Hiroshi Kamata , Mizuki Tateno , Javad Shabani , Christopher J. Palmstrøm , Seigo Tarucha

We report on realization and quantum transport study of a twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) Josephson junction device. High-quality tBLG employed in the device fabrication is obtained via chemical vapour deposition and the device is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-06 Dingran Rui , Luzhao Sun , N. Kang , Hailin Peng , Zhongfan Liu , H. Q. Xu

We show how a superconducting region (S) sandwiched between two normal leads (N), in the presence of barriers, can act as a lens for propagating electron and hole waves by virtue of the so- called crossed Andreev reflection (CAR). The CAR…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-06-23 Hosein Cheraghchi , Hanieh Esmailzadeh , Ali G. Moghaddam

Tunneling Andreev reflection (TAR) spectroscopy offers a powerful new approach to fingerprint superconducting pairing symmetry at the atomic scale. By leveraging the exponential sensitivity of excess tunneling decay rate to Andreev…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-29 Petro Maksymovych , Sang Yong Song , Benjamin Lawrie , Wonhee Ko , Jose L. Lado

We demonstrate theoretically that the topology of energy bands and Fermi surface in bilayer graphene undergoes a very sensitive transition when extremely tiny lateral interlayer shift occurs in arbitrary directions. The phenomenon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 Young-Woo Son , Seon-Myeong Choi , Yoon Pyo Hong , Sungjong Woo , Seung-Hoon Jhi

Monitoring electronic properties of 2D materials is an essential step to open a way for applications such as electronic devices and sensors. From this perspective, Bernal bilayer graphene (BLG) is a fairly simple system that offers great…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 Jouda Jemaa Khabthani , Ahmed Missaoui , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

We study the crossed Andreev effects in two-dimensional conductor/superconductor hybrid systems under a perpendicular magnetic field. Both a graphene/superconductor hybrid system and an electron gas/superconductor one are considered. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Zhe Hou , Yanxia Xing , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

The unexpected discovery of superconductivity and strong electron correlation in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), a system containing only sp electrons, is considered as one of the most intriguing developments in two-dimensional materials in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Wei-Chen Wang , Feng-Wu Chen , Kuan-Sen Lin , Justin T. Hou , Ho-Chun Lin , Mei-Yin Chou

The discovery of Mott insulators and superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene has ignited intensive research into strong correlation effects in other stacking geometries. Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BBG), when subjected to a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-23 Alex Friedlan , Heqiu Li , Hae-Young Kee

Modern nanoscience has focused on two-dimensional (2D) layer structure materials which have garnered tremendous attention due to their unique physical, chemical and electronic properties since the discovery of graphene in 2004. Recent…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-28 Srimanta Pakhira , Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is generally observed by excitation of surface plasmon polaritons on the metal (Au/Ag) surface. In order to utilize the SPR phenomenon for sensing application, the metal surface is functionalized with…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-20 Amrit Kumar , Manjuladevi V , R. K. Gupta

Beenakker noticed that the peculiar band structure of Dirac fermions in 2D solids allows for the specular Andreev reflection in these systems which has no analogue in other 2D electron systems. An interesting deformation of the Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-08 Z. Faraei , S. A. Jafari

The possibility of triggering correlated phenomena by placing a singularity of the density of states near the Fermi energy remains an intriguing avenue towards engineering the properties of quantum materials. Twisted bilayer graphene is a…

We investigate transport properties through a rectangular potential barrier in AB-stacked bilayer graphene (AB-BLG) gapped by dielectric layers. Using the Dirac-like Hamiltonian with a transfer matrix approach we obtain transmission and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Nadia Benlakhouy , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

We study clean, edge-contacted graphene/superconductor interfaces in both the quantum Hall (QH) and zero field regimes. We find that Andreev reflection is substantially stronger than at an interface with a semiconductor two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Alexey Bondarev , Gu Zhang , Harold U. Baranger

In this work, we theoretically study transverse magnetic focusing in a two-dimensional electron gas with strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction when proximitized along its edge with a superconducting contact. The presence of superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro