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The field-effect mobility of graphene devices is discussed. We argue that the graphene ballistic mean free path can only be extracted by taking into account both, the electrical characteristics and the channel length dependent mobility. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Zhihong Chen , Joerg Appenzeller

Electron devices based on graphene have lately received a considerable interest; in fact, they could represent the ultimate miniaturization, since the active area is only one atom tick. However, the gapless dispersion relation of graphene…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Giovanni Nastasi , Vittorio Romano

We consider the effect of uniaxial strain on ballistic transport in graphene, across single and multiple tunneling barriers. Specifically, we show that applied strain not only shifts the position of the Dirac points in reciprocal space, but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-04 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

There are a number of theoretical proposals based on strain engineering of graphene and other two-dimensional materials, however purely mechanical control of strain fields in these systems has remained a major challenge. The two approaches…

Graphene, due to its unique electronic structure favoring high carrier mobility, is considered a promising material for use in high-speed electronic devices in the post-silicon electronic era. For this reason, experimental research on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Giovanni Spinelli , Patrizia Lamberti , Vincenzo Tucci , Francisco Pasadas , David Jiménez

More than a decade after the discovery of graphene, ballistic transport in nanostructures based on this intriguing material still represents a challenging field of research in two-dimensional electronics. The presence of rough edges in…

We articulate the challenges and opportunities of unconventional devices using the photon like flow of electrons in graphene, such as Graphene Klein Tunnel (GKT) transistors. The underlying physics is the employment of momentum rather than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-01 Mirza M. Elahi , K. M. Masum Habib , Ke Wang , Gil-Ho Lee , Philip Kim , Avik W. Ghosh

We theoretically investigate the manipulation of the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in graphene by means of the uniaxial strain. The values of Chern number and Hall conductance demonstrate that the strained graphene in presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 G. S. Diniz , M. R. Guassi , F. Qu

An analytic theory of electron transport in disordered graphene in a ballistic geometry is developed. We consider a sample of a large width W and analyze the evolution of the conductance, the shot noise, and the full statistics of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-03 A. Schuessler , P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

Most materials in available macroscopic quantities are polycrystalline. Graphene, a recently discovered two-dimensional form of carbon with strong potential for replacing silicon in future electronics, is no exception. There is growing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Oleg V. Yazyev , Steven G. Louie

Graphene spintronics offers a promising route to achieve low power 2D electronics for next generation classical and quantum computation. As device length scales are reduced to the limit of the electron mean free path, the transport…

Particular strain geometry in graphene could leads to a uniform pseudo-magnetic field of order 10T and might open up interesting applications in graphene nano-electronics. Through quantum transport calculations of realistic strained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Tony Low , F. Guinea

We have developed an etching process to fabricate a quantum dot and a nearby single electron transistor as a charge detector in a single layer graphene. The high charge sensitivity of the detector is used to probe Coulomb diamonds as well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ling-Jun Wang , Gang Cao , Tao Tu , Hai-Ou Li , Cheng Zhou , Xiao-Jie Hao , Zhan Su , Guang-Can Guo , Guo-Ping Guo , Hong-Wen Jiang

In this work we present a theoretical study of transport properties of a double crossbar junction composed by segments of graphene ribbons with different widths forming a graphene quantum dot structure. The systems are described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-29 Jhon W. Gonzalez , Monica Pacheco , Luis Rosales , Pedro Orellana

Since its first isolation in 2004, graphene has been found to host a plethora of unusual electronic transport phenomena, making it a fascinating system for fundamental studies in condensed-matter physics as well as offering tremendous…

We investigate the combined influence of structural defects and uniaxial longitudinal strain on the electronic transport properties of armchair graphene nanoribbons using the numerical approach based on the semiempirical tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-30 Thomas Lehmann , Dmitry A. Ryndyk , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

Scientists are always yearning for new and exciting ways to unlock graphene's true potential. However, recent reports suggest this two-dimensional material may harbor some unique properties, making it a viable candidate for use in…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-04 F. V. Kusmartsev , W. M. Wu , M. P. Pierpoint , K. C. Yung

Artificial graphene consisting of honeycomb lattices other than the atomic layer of carbon has been shown to exhibit electronic properties similar to real graphene. Here, we reverse the argument to show that transport properties of real…

We introduce a new scheme to realize suspended, multi-terminal graphene structures that can be current annealed successfully to obtain uniform, very high quality devices. A key aspect is that the bulky metallic contacts are not connected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Dong-Keun Ki , Alberto F. Morpurgo

Graphene is an atomically thin metallic membrane capable of sustaining reversible strain and offers a tempting prospect of controlling its optoelectronic properties via strain. Graphenes exceptional mechanical flexibility and tensile…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-06 Paul Froeter , Parsian Moseni , Apratim Khandelwal , Xiuling Li