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Being a true two-dimensional crystal, graphene has special properties. In particular, a point-like defect in graphene may have effects in the long range. This peculiarity questions the validity of using a supercell geometry in an attempt to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-05 Philippe Lambin , Hakim Amara , François Ducastelle , Luc Henrard

We investigate the electron transport through a graphene p-n junction under a perpendicular magnetic field. By using Landauar-Buttiker formalism combining with the non-equilibrium Green function method, the conductance is studied for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wen Long , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang

The transmission of the electron across the single normal metal-graphene (NG) and normal-metal-graphene-normal-metal (NGN) junctions has been investigated. For the single NG junction, the profile of the maximum transmission which has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Weixian Yan , Min Guo

In the past decade graphene has been one of the most studied material for several unique and excellent properties. Due to its two dimensional nature, physical and chemical properties and ease of manipulation, graphene offers the possibility…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 Antonio Di Bartolomeo

The concept of a novel graphene P-I-N junction switching device with a nanoribbon is proposed, and its basic operation is demonstrated in an experiment. The concept aims to optimize the operation scheme for graphene transistors toward a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-15 Shu Nakaharai , Tomohiko Iijima , Shinichi Ogawa , Hisao Miyazaki , Songlin Li , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi , Shintaro Sato , Naoki Yokoyama

Raman spectroscopy is a powerful tool for characterizing the local properties of graphene. Here, we introduce a method for evaluating unknown strain configurations and simultaneous doping. It relies on separating the effects of hydrostatic…

Low-energy excitations in graphene exhibit relativistic properties due to the linear dispersion relation close to the Dirac points in the first Brillouin zone. Two of the Dirac points located at opposite corners of the first Brillouin zone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 T. Sekera , C. Bruder , E. J. Mele , R. P. Tiwari

The possibility to make 10 nm scale, and low-disorder, suspended graphene devices would open up many possibilities to study and make use of strongly coupled quantum electronics, quantum mechanics, and optics. We present a versatile method,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-06 V. Tayari , A. C. McRae , S. Yigen , J. O. Island , J. M. Porter , A. R. Champagne

The quantum Hall and longitudinal resistances in multi-terminal ferromagnetic graphene p-n junctions under a perpendicular magnetic field are investigated. In the Hall measurements, the transverse contacts are assumed to be located at p-n…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Lei Xu , Jin An , Chang-De Gong

Graphene, a two-dimensional (2D) material with unique electronic properties, appears to be an ideal object for the application of surface-science methods. Among them, a family of scanning probe microscopy methods (STM, AFM, KPFM) and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-30 Yuriy Dedkov , Elena Voloshina , Mikhail Fonin

The focusing of electron flow in a symmetric p-n junction (PNJ) of graphene ribbon with different chiralities is studied. Considering the PNJ with the sharp interface, in a armchair ribbon, the electron flow emitting from $(-L,0)$ in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yanxia Xing , Jian Wang , Qing-feng Sun

The contact strength, adhesion and friction, between graphene and an incommensurate crystalline substrate such as {\it h}-BN depends on their relative alignment angle $\theta$. The well established Novaco-McTague (NM) theory predicts for a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-29 Roberto Guerra , Merel van Wijk , Andrea Vanossi , Annalisa Fasolino , Erio Tosatti

Near-interfacial oxide traps and chemical impurities on the graphene surface or at the graphene-dielectric interface can be a source of intentional or unintentional doping of graphene sheet. The efficiency of such chemical doping can vary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 G. I. Zebrev , S. A. Shostachenko

There is an increasing amount of literature concerning electronic properties of graphene close to the neutrality point. Many experiments continue using the two-probe geometry or invasive contacts or do not control samples' macroscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-27 P. Blake , R. Yang , S. V. Morozov , F. Schedin , L. A. Ponomarenko , A. A. Zhukov , I. V. Grigorieva , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim

Electric transport of double gated bilayer graphene devices is studied as a function of charge density and bandgap. A top gate electrode can be used to control locally the Fermi level to create a pn junction between the double-gated and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-06 Hiroki Shioya , Michihisa Yamamoto , Saverio Russo , Monica F. Craciun , Seigo Tarucha

Coulomb blockade is observed in a graphene nanoribbon device with a top gate. When two pn junctions are formed via the back gate and the local top gate, electrons are confined between the pn junctions which act as the barriers. When no pn…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-11 Xinglan Liu , Jeroen B. Oostinga , Alberto F. Morpurgo , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen

Graphene, a one-atom thick zero gap semiconductor [1, 2], has been attracting an increasing interest due to its remarkable physical properties ranging from an electron spectrum resembling relativistic dynamics [3-12] to ballistic transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 T. O. Wehling , K. S. Novoselov , S. V. Morozov , E. E. Vdovin , M. I. Katsnelson , A. K. Geim , A. I. Lichtenstein

Graphene electrodes provide a suitable alternative to metal contacts in molecular conduction nanojunctions. Here, we propose to use graphene electrodes as a platform for effective photon assisted tunneling through molecular conduction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Boris Fainberg

Measurements of fractional multiples of the {\nu}=2 plateau quantized Hall resistance (R_H {\approx} 12906 {\Omega}) were enabled by the utilization of multiple current terminals on millimetre-scale graphene p-n junction devices fabricated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Dinesh K. Patel , Martina Marzano , Chieh-I Liu , Mattias Kruskopf , Randolph E. Elmquist , Chi-Te Liang , Albert F. Rigosi

The conductance of ballistic graphene at the neutrality point is due to coherent electron tunneling between the leads, the so called pseudodiffusive regime. The conductance scales as function of the sample dimensions in the same way as in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson