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Graphene is a unique two-dimensional material with rich new physics and great promise for applications in electronic devices. Physical phenomena such as the half-integer quantum Hall effect and high carrier mobility are critically dependent…

We report anomalous quantum transport features in bilayer graphene in presence of a random distribution of structural vacancies. By using an efficient real-space Kubo-Greenwood transport methodology, the impact of a varying density of dimer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-11 Dinh Van Tuan , Stephan Roche

We investigate the quantum tunneling of electrons in an AA-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) $n$-$p$ junction and $n$-$p$-$n$ junction. We show that Klein tunneling of an electron can occur in this system. The quasiparticles are not only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-04 Matthew Sanderson , Yee Sin Ang , Chao Zhang

We theoretically study the phase of the reflection amplitude of an electron (massive Dirac fermion) at a lateral potential step in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene. The phase shows anomalous jump of $\pi$, as the electron incidence angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Sunghun Park , H. -S. Sim

A graphene sheet partially covered with a bulk superconductor serves as a normal conductor--superconductor (NS) junction, in which electron transport is mainly governed by Andreev reflection (AR). As excess carriers induced over the covered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Yositake Takane , Katsuhide Yarimizu , Akinobu Kanda

We study photodetection in graphene near a local electrostatic gate, which enables active control of the potential landscape and carrier polarity. We find that a strong photoresponse only appears when and where a p-n junction is formed,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 M. C. Lemme , F. H. L. Koppens , A. L. Falk , M. S. Rudner , H. Park , L. S. Levitov , C. M. Marcus

Flat band moir\'e graphene systems have emerged as a quintessential platform to investigate correlated phases of matter. A plethora of interaction-driven ground states have been proposed, and yet despite extensive experimental effort, there…

Transport measurement of electron optics in monolayer graphene p-n junction devices has been traditionally studied with negative refraction and chiral transmission experiments in Hallbar magnetic focusing set-ups. We show direct signatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-20 Mirza M. Elahi , Yihang Zeng , Cory R. Dean , Avik W. Ghosh

We develop an analytical mode-matching technique for the tight-binding model to describe electron transport across graphene P-N junctions. This method shares the simplicity of the conventional mode-matching technique for the low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-29 Shu-Hui Zhang , Wen Yang

We consider conductance mapping of the snake-orbits confined along the n-p junction defined in graphene by the electrostatic doping in the quantum Hall regime. We explain the periodicity of conductance oscillations at the magnetic field and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 K. Kolasiński , A. Mreńca-Kolasińska , B. Szafran

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, composed of single atomic layers, have attracted vast research interest since the breakthrough discovery of graphene. One major benefit of such systems is the simple ability to tune the chemical potential by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-01 Gopi Nath Daptary , Eyal Walach , Efrat Shimshoni , Aviad Frydman

Ballistic electrons in solids can have mean free paths far larger than the smallest features patterned by lithography. This has allowed development and study of solid-state electron-optical devices such as beam splitters and quantum point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Arthur W. Barnard , Alex Hughes , Aaron L. Sharpe , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , David Goldhaber-Gordon

Gapless bilayer graphene (GBG), like monolayer graphene, is a material system with unique properties, such as anti-Klein tunneling and intrinsic Fano resonances. These properties rely on the gapless parabolic dispersion relation and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 J. A. Briones-Torres , R. Pernas-Salomón , R. Pérez-Álvarez , I. Rodríguez-Vargas

In the presence of axial magnetic fields that can be realized in deliberately buckled monolayer graphene, quasi-relativistic Dirac fermions may find themselves in a variety of broken symmetry phases even for weak interactions. Through a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 Bitan Roy , Jay D. Sau

In bilayer graphene, electrostatic confinement can be realized by a suitable design of top and back gate electrodes. We measure electronic transport through a bilayer graphene quantum dot, which is laterally confined by gapped regions and…

This letter presents our findings on the recursive band gap engineering of chiral fermions in bilayer graphene doubly aligned with hBN. By utilizing two interfering moir\'{e} potentials, we generate a supermoir\'{e} pattern which…

Dirac fermion optics exploits the refraction of chiral fermions across optics-inspired Klein-tunneling barriers defined by high-transparency p-n junctions. We consider the corner reflector (CR) geometry introduced in optics or radars. We…

Massive Dirac fermions are low-energy electronic excitations characterized by a hyperbolic band dispersion. They play a central role in several emerging physical phenomena such as topological phase transitions, anomalous Hall effects and…

The unconventional properties of graphene, with a massless Dirac band dispersion and large coherence properties, have raised a large interest for applications in nanoelectronics. In this work, we emphasize that graphene two dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-27 Pierre Darancet , Valerio Olevano , Didier Mayou

We show that an electrostatically created n-p junction separating the electron and hole gas regions in a graphene monolayer transmits only those quasiparticles that approach it almost perpendicularly to the n-p interface. Such a selective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vadim V. Cheianov , Vladimir I. Fal'ko