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Quantitative description of charge transport across tunneling and break-junction devices with novel superconductors encounters some problems not present, or not as severe for traditional superconducting materials. In this work, we explain…

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We introduce two-dimensional borane, a single-layered material of BH stoichiometry, with promising electronic properties. We show that, according to Density Functional Theory calculations, two-dimensional borane is semimetallic, with two…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-01 Miguel Martinez-Canales , Timur R. Galeev , Alexander I. Boldyrev , Chris J. Pickard

We systematically investigated electronic evolutions of non-symmorphic borophene with chemical environments that were realized by the ion exchange method. Electronic structures can be characterized by the topological $Z_2$ invariant.…

Graphene has emerged as a paradigmatic material in condensed matter physics due to its exceptional electronic, mechanical, and thermal properties. A deep understanding of its thermoelectric transport behavior is crucial for the development…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Juan A. Cañas , Daniel A. Bonilla , A. Martín-Ruiz

We investigated proximity-induced superconductivity in a graphene-insulating InO bilayer system through gate-controlled transport measurements. Distinct oscillations in the differential conductance are observed across both the electron and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-08 Yuxiao Wu , Udit Khanna , Eyal Walach , Efrat Shimshoni , Aviad Frydman

Structural and electronic properties of silicene adsorbed by five kinds of transition metal atoms (Cu, Ag, Au, Pt, and Ir) are systematically studied by using first-principles calculations. We find that such adsorption can induce a band gap…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 Zeyuan Ni , Hongxia Zhong , Xinhe Jiang , Ruge Quhe , Yangyang Wang , Junjie Shi , Jing Lu

Recently synthesized two-dimensional (2D) boron, borophene, exhibits a novel metallic behavior rooted in the s-p orbital hybridization, distinctively different from other 2D materials such as sulfides/selenides and semi-metallic graphene.…

By way of the nonequilibrium Green's function simulations and first principles calculations, we report that borophene, a single layer of boron atoms that was fabricated recently, possesses an extraordinarily high lattice thermal conductance…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-31 Hangbo Zhou , Yongqing Cai , Gang Zhang , Yong-Wei Zhang

We present a theory of electronic transport in graphene in the presence of randomly placed adsorbates. Our analysis predicts a marked asymmetry of the conductivity about the Dirac point, as well as a negative weak-localization…

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The relativistic nature of charge carriers in graphene is expected to lead to an angle- dependent transmission through a potential barrier, where Klein tunneling involves annihilation of an electron and a hole at the edges of the barrier.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 Atikur Rahman , Janice Wynn Guikema , N. M. Hassan , Nina Markovic

The paper discusses the chiral tunnelling of charge carriers through double barrier structure in twisted graphene bilayer. The theoretical analysis investigates the transmission probability for various system parameters under both symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 A. Bahlaoui , Y. Zahidi

We predict that vertical transport in heterostructures formed by twisted graphene layers can exhibit a unique bistability mechanism. Intrinsically bistable $I$-$V$ characteristics arise from resonant tunneling and interlayer charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-19 Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva , Mildred S. Dresselhaus , Leonid S. Levitov

We investigate the electronic band structure and transport properties of periodically alternating mono- and bi-layer graphene superlattices (MBLG SLs). In such MBLG SLs, there exists a zero-averaged wave vector (zero-$\overline{k}$) gap…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-22 Xiong Fan , Wenjun Huang , Tianxing Ma , Li-Gang Wang , Hai-Qing Lin

The polymorph of ${\rm 8-Pmmn}$ borophene is an anisotropic Dirac material with tilted Dirac cones at two valleys. The tilting of the Dirac cones at two valleys are in opposite direction, which manifests itself via valley dependent Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 SK Firoz Islam

Tunneling of electrons through the barriers in heterostructures has been studied, within unified transfer matrix approach. The effect of barrier width on the transmission coefficient of the electrons has been investigated for different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-10 Jatindranath Gain , Madhumita Das Sarkar , Sudakshina Kundu

When a single-layer graphene sheet is contacted with metallic electrodes, tunnel barriers are formed as a result of the doping of graphene by the metal in the contact region. If the Fermi energy level is modulated by a gate voltage, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-11 Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

We show that the angular range of the transmission through magnetic barrier structures can be efficiently controlled in single-layer and bilayer graphenes and this renders the structure's efficient wavevector filters. As the number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-22 M. Ramezani Masir , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

We show that surface plasmons of a two-dimensional Dirac metal such as graphene can be reflected by line-like perturbations hosting one-dimensional electron states. The reflection originates from a strong enhancement of the local optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Bor-Yuan Jiang , Guangxin Ni , Cheng Pan , Zhe Fei , Bin Cheng , Chun Ning Lau , Marc Bockrath , Dimitri N. Basov , Michael M. Fogler

Van der Waal's heterostrucutures allow for novel devices such as two-dimensional-to-two-dimensional tunnel devices, exemplified by interlayer tunnel FETs. These devices employ channel/tunnel-barrier/channel geometries. However, during…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-10 Amithraj Valsaraj , Leonard F. Register , Emanuel Tutuc , Sanjay K. Banerjee

We show that the (2+1)-dimensional massless Dirac equation, which includes a tilt term, can be reduced to the biconfluent Heun equation for a broad range of scalar confining potentials, including the well-known Morse potential. Applying…

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