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We report distinctive magnetotransport properties of a graphene p-n-p junction prepared by controlled diffusion of metallic contacts. In most cases, materials deposited on a graphene surface introduce substantial carrier scattering, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Cheng-Hua Liu , Po-Hsiang Wang , Tak-Pong Woo , Fu-Yu Shih , Shih-Ching Liou , Po-Hsun Ho , Chun-Wei Chen , Chi-Te Liang , Wei-Hua Wang

Making devices with graphene necessarily involves making contacts with metals. We use density functional theory to study how graphene is doped by adsorption on metal substrates and find that weak bonding on Al, Ag, Cu, Au and Pt, while…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Giovannetti , P. A. Khomyakov , G. Brocks , V. M. Karpan , J. van den Brink , P. J. Kelly

Negative refraction usually demands complex structure engineering while it is very natural for massless Dirac fermions (MDFs) across the \textit{p-n} junction, this leads to Dirac electron optics. The emergent Dirac materials may exhibit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Shu-Hui Zhang , Wen Yang

In a graphene {\em pn} junction at high magnetic field, unidirectional "snake states" are formed at the {\em pn} interface. In a clean {\em pn} junction, each snake state exists in one of the valleys of the graphene band structure, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Christian Fraessdorf , Luka Trifunovic , Nils Bogdanoff , Piet W. Brouwer

Electron collimation via a graphene pn-junction allows electrostatic control of ballistic electron trajectories akin to that of an optical circuit. Similar manipulation of novel correlated electronic phases in twisted-bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Wei Ren , Xi Zhang , Ziyan Zhu , Moosa Khan , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Efthimios Kaxiras , Mitchell Luskin , Ke Wang

The nucleation of graphene on a transition metal (TM) surface, either on a terrace or near a step edge, is systematically explored using density functional theory (DFT) calculations and applying the two-dimensional (2D) crystal nucleation…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-04-04 Junfeng Gao , Joanne Yip , Jijun Zhao , Boris I. Yakobson , Feng Ding

Conductance of zigzag interfaces between graphene sheet and normal metal is investigated in the tight-binding approximation. Boundary conditions, valid for a variety of scattering problems, are constructed and applied to the normal metal --…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ya. M. Blanter , Ivar Martin

Graphene is a 2-dimensional (2D) carbon allotrope with the atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice. The low-energy electronic excitations in this 2D crystal are described by massless Dirac fermions that have a linear dispersion relation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 Peter Rickhaus , Romain Maurand , Ming-Hao Liu , Markus Weiss , Klaus Richter , Christian Schönenberger

In this work we describe a proposal for a graphene-based nanostructure that modulates electric current even in the absence of a gap in the band structure. The device consists of a graphene p-n junction that acts as a Veselago lens that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 F. R. V. Araújo , D. R. da Costa , A. C. S. Nascimento , J. M. Pereira

We observe a dc electric current in response to terahertz radiation in lateral inter-digitated double-comb graphene p-n junctions. The junctions were fabricated by selective ultraviolet irradiation inducing p-type doping in intrinsic n-type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Yu. B. Vasilyev , G. Yu. Vasileva , S. Novikov , S. A. Tarasenko , S. N. Danilov , S. D. Ganichev

We have fabricated graphene devices with a top gate separated from the graphene layer by an air gap--a design which does not decrease the mobility of charge carriers under the gate. This gate is used to realise p-n-p structures where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-10 R. V. Gorbachev , A. S. Mayorov , A. K. Savchenko , D. W. Horsell , F. Guinea

Just a few of the promising applications of graphene Corbino pnJ devices include two-dimensional Dirac fermion microscopes, custom programmable quantized resistors, and mesoscopic valley filters. In some cases, device scalability is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Chieh-I Liu , Dominick S. Scaletta , Dinesh K. Patel , Mattias Kruskopf , Antonio Levy , Heather M. Hill , Albert F. Rigosi

The implementation of graphene in semiconducting technology requires the precise knowledge about the graphene-semiconductor interface. In our work the structure and electronic properties of the graphene/$n$-Ge(110) interface are…

We demonstrate the use of a quantum transport model to study heavily graded graphene p-n junctions in the quantum Hall regime. A combination of p-n interface roughness and delta function disorder potential allows us to compare experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Samuel W LaGasse , Ji Ung Lee

A near-field scanning optical microscope is used to locally induce photocurrent in a graphene transistor with high spatial resolution. By analyzing the spatially resolved photo-response, we find that in the n-type conduction regime a p-n-p…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Mueller , F. Xia , M. Freitag , J. Tsang , Ph. Avouris

Linear conductance of junctions formed by graphene flakes with order of nanometer-thick electrodes attached at the corners of the flakes is studied. The explored structures have sizes up to 20000 atoms and the conductance is studied as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-08 Martin Konôpka

Junctions provide a wealth of information on the symmetry of the order parameter of superconductors. We analyze junctions between a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) tip and superconducting twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) and TBG Josephson…

Herein we discuss the fabrication of ballistic suspended graphene nanostructures supplemented with local gating. Using in-situ current annealing, we show that exceptional high mobilities can be obtained in these devices. A detailed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 Romain Maurand , Peter Rickhaus , Peter Makk , Samuel Hess , Endre Tovari , Clevin Handschin , Markus Weiss , Christian Schonenberger

The characteristics of tunnel junctions formed between n- and p-doped graphene are investigated theoretically. The single-particle tunnel current that flows between the two-dimensional electronic states of the graphene (2D-2D tunneling) is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. M. Feenstra , Debdeep Jena , Gong Gu

Graphene nano-ribbons junctions based electronic devices are proposed in this Letter. Non-equilibrium Green function calculations show that nano-ribbon junctions tailored from single layer graphene with different edge shape and width can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Zhiping Xu
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