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In van der Waals heterostructures, the periodic potential from the Moir\'e superlattice can be used as a control knob to modulate the electronic structure of the constituent materials. Here we present a nanoscale angle-resolved…

We study charge transport in one-dimensional graphene superlattices created by applying layered periodic and disordered potentials. It is shown that the transport and spectral properties of such structures are strongly anisotropic. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 Yury P. Bliokh , Valentin Freilikher , Sergey Savel'ev , Franco Nori

To realize the applicative potential of 2D twistronic devices, scalable synthesis and assembly techniques need to meet stringent requirements in terms of interface cleanness and twist-angle homogeneity. Here, we show that small-angle…

We study the effect of atomic relaxation on the structure of moir\'e patterns in twisted graphene on graphite and double layer graphene by large scale atomistic simulations. The reconstructed structure can be described as a superlattice of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 M. M. van Wijk , A. Schuring , M. I. Katsnelson , A. Fasolino

The induced-proximity effects of nearly commensurate lattice structure of a graphene layer on Ni(111) and Co(0001) substrates in the AC stacking configuration are addressed through an analytical tight-binding approach within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Mayra Peralta , Ernesto Medina , Francisco Mireles

The electronic states of an electrostatically confined cylindrical graphene quantum dot and the electric transport through this device are studied theoretically within the continuum Dirac-equation approximation and compared with numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-12 G. Pal , W. Apel , L. Schweitzer

Representing massless Dirac fermions on a spatial lattice poses a potential challenge known as the Fermion Doubling problem. Addition of a quadratic term to the Dirac Hamiltonian circumvents this problem. We show that the modified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 K. M. Masum Habib , Redwan N. Sajjad , Avik W. Ghosh

We report intriguing and hitherto overlooked low-field room temperature extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR) patterns in graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) superlattices that emerge due to the existence of open orbits within each…

We use numerically exact Chebyshev expansion and kernel polynomial methods to study transport through circular graphene quantum dots in the framework of a tight-binding honeycomb lattice model. Our focus lies on the regime where individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Pieper , R. L. Heinisch , H. Fehske

We study tunneling across a strain-induced superlattice in graphene. In studying the effect of applied strain on the low-lying Dirac-like spectrum, both a shift of the Dirac points in reciprocal space, and a deformation of the Dirac cones…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

We have studied the electronic properties in aperiodic graphene superlattices of Thue-Morse sequence. Although the structure is aperiodic, an unusual Dirac point (DP) does exist and its location is exactly at the position of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-28 Tianxing Ma , Chun Liang , Li-Gang Wang , Hai-Qing Lin

Graphene has demonstrated great promise for future electronics technology as well as fundamental physics applications because of its linear energy-momentum dispersion relations which cross at the Dirac point. However, accessing the physics…

We study structural and electronic properties of graphene grown on SiC substrate using scanning tunneling microscope (STM), spot-profile-analysis low energy electron diffraction (SPA-LEED) and angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Lunan Huang , Yun Wu , M. T. Hershberger , Daixiang Mou , Ben Schrunk , Michael C. Tringides , Myron Hupalo , Adam Kaminski

This study theoretically investigated the magnetic properties and electronic structure of a graphene-based nano-spin-valve-like structure. Magnetic nickel layers on both sides of the graphene were considered. A spin-polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 Yusuf Wicaksono , Shingo Teranishi , Kazutaka Nishiguchi , Koichi Kusakabe

Based on first-principles calculations we predict that periodically repeated junctions of armchair graphene nanoribbons of different widths form superlattice structures. In these superlattice heterostructures the width and the energy gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Sevincli , M. Topsakal , S. Ciraci

We present a comparative study of high carrier density transport in mono-, bi-, and trilayer graphene using electric-double-layer transistors to continuously tune the carrier density up to values exceeding 10^{14} cm^{-2}. Whereas in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 J. T. Ye , M. F. Craciun , M. Koshino , S. Russo , S. Inoue , H. T. Yuan , H. Shimotani , A. F. Morpurgo , Y. Iwasa

We investigate electronic band structure and transport properties in bilayer graphene superlattices of Thue-Morse sequence. It is interesting to find that the zero-$\bar{k}$ gap center is sensitive to interlayer coupling $t'$, and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-30 Changan Li , Hemeng Cheng , Ruofan Chen , Tianxing Ma , Li-Gang Wang , Yun Song , Hai-Qing Lin

Due to atomically thin structure, graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (G/hBN) heterostructures are intensively sensitive to the external mechanical forces and deformations being applied to their lattice structure. In particular, strain can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-03 Zahra Khatibi , Afshin Namiranian , S. F. K. S. Panahi

Non-trivial Berry phase of graphene leads to unusual quantum correction to the conductivity. Berry phase of pi in single layer graphene (SLG) and 2pi in bi-layer graphene (BLG) is expected to reveal weak anti-localization (WAL) and weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Chandan Kumar , Saurabh Kumar Srivastav , Priyo Adhikary , Sumilan Banerjee , Tanmoy Das , Anindya Das

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