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Tunneling of quasiparticles between two nearly-aligned graphene sheets produces resonant current-voltage characteristics because of the quasi-exact conservation of in-plane momentum. We claim that, in this regime, vertical transport in…

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We report our theoretical calculations on the temperature and energy dependent electrical conductivity of gapped graphene within the framework of Boltzmann transport formalism. Since screening effects have known to be of vital importance in…

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In this theoretical study, we explore the manner in which the quantum correction due to weak localization is suppressed in weakly-disordered graphene, when it is subjected to the application of a non-zero voltage. Using a nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 J. Fransson , R. Somphonsane , H. Ramamoorthy , G. He , J. P. Bird

An introduction to the transport properties of graphene combining experimental results and theoretical analysis is presented. In the theoretical description simple intuitive models are used to illustrate important points on the transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-29 N. M. R. Peres

Two-dimensional carbon, or graphene, is a semi-metal that presents unusual low-energy electronic excitations described in terms of Dirac fermions. We analyze in a self-consistent way the effects of localized (impurities or vacancies) and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 N. M. R. Peres , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

We study quasi-particle transmission through an $n $-$p$ junction in a graphene irradiated by an electromagnetic field (EF). In the absence of EF the electronic spectrum of undoped graphene is gapless, and one may expect the perfect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. V. Fistul , K. B. Efetov

Electronic transport properties of monolayer graphene with extreme physical bending up to 90o angle are studied using ab Initio first-principle calculations. The importance of key structural parameters including step height, curvature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-31 Haiyuan Gao , Yang Xu , Meijiao Li , Zhendong Guo , Hongshen Chen , Zhonghe Jin , Bin Yu

We present an investigation of heat transport in gapless graphene-based Ferromagnetic /singlet Superconductor/Ferromagnetic (FG$\mid$SG$\mid$FG) junctions. We find that unlike uniform increase of thermal conductance vs temperature, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-01 Morteza Salehi , Mohammad Alidoust , Yousef Rahnavard , Gholamreza Rashedi

Graphene, a 2-dimensional monolayer form of sp2 hybridizated carbon atoms, is attracting increasing attention due to its unique and superior physicochemical properties. Covalently functionalized graphene layers, with their modifiable…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-11 Karolina Z. Milowska , Jacek A. Majewski

Modulation of electronic states in two-dimensional (2D) materials can be achieved by using in-plane variations of the band gap or the average potential in lateral quantum structures. In the atomic configurations with hexagonal symmetry,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Feng-Wu Chen , Mei-Yin Chou , Yiing-Rei Chen , Yu-Shu Wu

Based on density functional theory (DFT), we have developed algorithms and a program code to investigate the electron transport characteristics for a variety of nanometer scaled devices in the presence of an external bias voltage. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-14 Woo Youn Kim , Kwang S. Kim

Graphene-oxide hybrid structures offer the opportunity to combine the versatile functionalities of oxides with the excellent electronic transport in graphene. Understanding and controlling how the dielectric environment affects the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-26 X. Hong , K. Zou , A. M. DaSilva , C. H. Ahn , J. Zhu

For many of the envisioned optoelectronic applications of graphene it is crucial to understand the sub-picosecond carrier dynamics immediately following photoexcitation, as well as the effect on the electrical conductivity - the…

By using the real-space Green-Kubo formalism we study numerically the electron transport properties of low-fluorinated graphene. At low temperatures the diffuse transport regime is expected to be prevalent, and we found a pronounced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 D. V. Kolesnikov , V. A. Osipov

The main goal of our study was investigation of the influence of the deformations (sufficiently large for the establishing the non-zero gap) on electrotransport properties of impure graphene. To achieve this purpose, we implemented the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Igor Yu. Sagalianov , Yuriy I. Prylutskyy , Taras M. Radchenko , Valentyn A. Tatarenko

By means of atomistic tight-binding calculations, we investigate the transport properties of vertical devices made of two incommensurately misoriented graphene layers. With a chosen transport direction (Ox-axis), we define two classes of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Viet Hung Nguyen , Philippe Dollfus

Electron transport and quantum conductance through an armchair graphene and its oxidized graphene- containing form were investigated by the density functional theory (DFT) method and the implementation of the non-equilibrium Green function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-29 Badie Ghavami , Alireza Rastkar-Ebrahimzadeh

Vertical graphene heterostructures made up of graphene layers separated by BN spacers allow for novel ways of tuning the interactions between electrons. We study the possibility of electron pairing mediated by modified repulsive…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-25 Francisco Guinea , Bruno Uchoa

We numerically study the disorder effect on the thermoelectric and thermal transport for bilayer graphene under a strong perpendicular magnetic field. In the unbiased case, we find that the thermoelectric transport has similar properties as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. Ma , L. Zhu , L. Sheng , M. Liu , D. N Sheng

Using a semi-classical approach and input from experiments on the conductivity of graphene, we determine the electronic density dependence of the electronic transport coefficients -- conductivity, thermal conductivity and thermopower -- of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , T. Stauber