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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 electronic excitations of bilayer graphene (BLG) under a magnetic field are investigated with the use of the Peierls tight-binding model in conjunction with random-phase approximation (RPA). The interlayer atomic interactions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jhao-Ying Wu , Godfrey Gumbs , Ming-Fa Lin

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures consisting of bilayer graphene (BLG) encapsulated within monolayers of strong spin-orbit semiconductor WS$_2$ or ferromagnetic semiconductor Cr$_2$Ge$_2$Te$_6$ (CGT), are investigated. By performing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Klaus Zollner , Jaroslav Fabian

A conversion of AA- to AB-stacking bilayer graphene (BLG) due to interlayer interaction is demonstrated. Two types of interlayer interactions, an attractive and a repulsive, between the Boron and Nitrogen dopant atoms in BLG are found. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Hunar Omar Rashid , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We show that delaminations in bilayer graphene (BLG) with electrostatically induced interlayer asymmetry can provide one with ballistic channels for electrons with energies inside the electrostatically induced BLG gap. These channels are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-18 T. L. M. Lane , M. Anđelković , J. R. Wallbank , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters , V. I. Fal'ko

We investigate the domain wall network in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) under the influence of interlayer bias and screening effect from the layered structure. Starting from the continuum model, we analyze the low-energy domain wall modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Hao-Chien Wang , Chen-Hsuan Hsu

Atomically thin van der Waals materials stacked with an interlayer twist have proven to be an excellent platform towards achieving gate-tunable correlated phenomena linked to the formation of flat electronic bands. In this work we…

Bilayer graphene contains, compared to graphene monolayer, an additional graphene sheet and, therefore, extra degrees of freedom, making it a unique system for complex electronic states to emerge. Here, we show that there are two types of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-16 Long-Jing , Si-Yu Li , Jia-Bin Qiao , Wei-Jie Zuo , Lin He

Tunneling conductance between two bilayer graphene (BLG) sheets separated by 2 nm-thick insulating barrier was measured in two devices with the twist angles between BLGs less than 1{\deg}. At small bias voltages, the tunneling occurs with…

We show that two graphene layers stacked directly on top of each other (AA stacking) form strong chemical bonds when the distance between planes is 0.156 nm. Simultaneously, C-C in-plane bonds are considerably weakened from partial…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-27 P. L. de Andres , R. Ramirez , J. A. Verges

Domain walls separating regions of AB and BA interlayer stacking in bilayer graphene have attracted attention as novel examples of structural solitons, topological electronic boundaries, and nanoscale plasmonic scatterers. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-20 Bor-Yuan Jiang , Guang-Xin Ni , Zachariah Addison , Jing K. Shi , Xiaomeng Liu , Frank Zhao , P. Kim , E. J. Mele , D. N. Basov , M. M. Fogler

This study delves into the magneto-electronic and magneto-optical properties of stacking-modulated bilayer graphene. By manipulating domain walls (DWs) across AB-BA domains periodically, we unveil oscillatory Landau subbands and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Chiun-Yan Lin , Da-We Weng , Chih-Wei Chiu , Godfrey Gumbs

The recent discovery of correlated insulator states and superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has paved the way to the experimental investigation of electronic correlations in tunable flat band systems realized in…

Graphene, as an atomic-thick ultrasoft membrane, almost has no resistance against out-of-plane deformations and, therefore, it is always wrinkled to a certain degree. Recently, corrugated structures and their effects on the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 Si-Yu Li , Hua Jiang , Jiao-Jiao Zhou , Haiwen Liu , Fan Zhang , Lin He

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) exhibits a wide range of intriguing physical properties, such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, and superlubricity. Depending on the twist angle, periodic moir\'e superlattices form in twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Vahid Morovati , Zhiming Xue , Kenneth M. Liechti , Rui Huang

The AB-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) is a pure semiconductor whose band gap and properties can be tuned by various methods such as doping or applying gate voltage. Here we show an alternative method to control the electronic properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-06 Srimanta Pakhira , Kevin P. Lucht , Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures are gaining increasing attention because they offer new opportunities to tailor and explore unique electronic phenomena when stacking 2D materials with small twist angles. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-28 Junxi Yu , Rajiv Giridharagopal , Yuhao Li , Kaichen Xie , Jiangyu Li , Ting Cao , Xiaodong Xu , David S. Ginger

Stacking domain boundaries occur in Van der Waals heterostacks whenever there is a twist angle or lattice mismatch between subsequent layers. Not only can these domain boundaries host topological edge states, imaging them has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-24 Tobias A. de Jong , Xingchen Chen , Johannes Jobst , Eugene E. Krasovskii , Ruud M. Tromp , Sense Jan van der Molen

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 study the electron transmission through the domain boundary on bilayer graphene separating AB and BA stacking regions. Using the effective continuum model, we calculate the electron transmission probability as a function of the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Mikito Koshino
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