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We show how the trigonal warping effect in doped graphene can be used to produce fully valley polarized currents. We propose a device that acts both as a beam splitter and a collimator of these electronic currents. The result is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-05 J. L. Garcia-Pomar , A. Cortijo , M. Nieto-Vesperinas

Graphene has evolved as a platform for quantum transport that can compete with the best and cleanest semiconductor systems. Recently, many interesting local properties of carrier transport in graphene have been investigated by various…

We investigate the electronic confinement in bilayer graphene by topological loops of different shapes. These loops are created by lateral gates acting via gap inversion on the two graphene sheets. For large-area loops the spectrum is well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Nassima Benchtaber , David Sánchez , Llorenç Serra

We show that the optical excitation of graphene with polarized light leads to the pure valley current where carriers in the valleys counterflow. The current in each valley originates from asymmetry of optical transitions and electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 L. E. Golub , S. A. Tarasenko , M. V. Entin , L. I. Magarill

AB-stacked bilayer graphene has emerged as a fascinating yet simple platform for exploring macroscopic quantum phenomena of correlated electrons. Unexpectedly, a phase with negative dR/dT has recently been observed when a large electric…

An analogue of the Datta-Das spin FET is investigated, which is all-graphene and based on the valley degree of freedom of electrons / holes. The "valley FET" envisioned consists of a quantum wire of gapped graphene (channel) sandwiched…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-01 M. -K. Lee , N. -Y. Lue , Y. -C. Chen , C. -K. Wen , G. Y. Wu

In the presence of a finite interlayer displacement field bilayer graphene has an energy gap that is dependent on stacking and largest for the stable AB and BA stacking arrangements. When the relative orientations between layers are twisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Dmitry K. Efimkin , Allan H. MacDonald

Bilayer graphene hosts valley-chiral one dimensional modes at domain walls between regions of different interlayer potential or stacking order. When such a channel is brought into proximity to a superconductor, the two electrons of a Cooper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-13 Alexander Schroer , Peter G. Silvestrov , Patrik Recher

Bilayer graphene has drawn significant attention due to the opening of a band gap in its low energy electronic spectrum, which offers a promising route to electronic applications. The gap can be either tunable through an external electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Gregory M. Rutter , Suyong Jung , Nikolai N. Klimov , David B. Newell , Nikolai B. Zhitenev , Joseph A. Stroscio

We consider tunneling transport between two parallel graphene sheets where one is a single-layer sample and the other one a bilayer. In the presence of an in-plane magnetic field, the interplay between combined energy and momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 L Pratley , U. Zuelicke

Bilayer graphene cavities where electrons are confined within finite graphene flakes provide an alluring platform not only for the future nanoelectronic devices owing to the tunable energy gap but also for investigating the quantum nature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Jucheng Lin , Yicheng Zhuang , Anton M. Graf , Joonas Keski-Rahkonen , Eric J. Heller

Using the tight-binding model, we investigate the valley current of the `low-bi-up' and `low-bi-low' graphene junction, where `low' and `up' are respectively the lower and upper graphene layers extended from the central AB stacking bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Ryo Tamura

We study the electronic band structure and the topological property of the twisted double bilayer graphene, or a pair of AB-stacked bilayer graphenes rotationally stacked on top of each other. We consider two different arrangements, AB-AB…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-10 Mikito Koshino

Valley currents and non-local resistances of graphene nanostructures with broken inversion symmetry are considered theoretically in the linear response regime. Scattering state wave functions of electrons entering the nanostructure from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-24 George Kirczenow

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have been proposed as potential building blocks for field effect transistor (FET) devices due to their quantum confinement bandgap. Here, we propose a novel GNR device concept, enabling the control of both charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 Peter Vancso , Imre Hagymasi , Levente Tapaszto

Theory predicts that the application of an electric field breaks the inversion symmetry of AB and BA stacked domains in twisted bilayer graphene, resulting in the formation of a triangular network of one-dimensional valley-protected helical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 J. D. Verbakel , Q. Yao , K. Sotthewes , H. J. W. Zandvliet

Bilayer graphene encapsulated in tungsten diselenide can host a weak topological phase with pairs of helical edge states. The electrical tunability of this phase makes it an ideal platform to investigate unique topological effects at zero…

We demonstrate that single layer graphene exhibits the electronic structure of a bilayer when it is connected to two gated bilayers. The energy gap characteristic for gated bilayer is induced in the single layer and it persists for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Wlodzimierz Jaskolski

Bernal bilayer graphene has recently been discovered to exhibit a wide range of unique ordered phases resulting from interaction-driven effects and encompassing spin and valley magnetism, correlated insulators, correlated metals, and…

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene exhibits quasi-flat low-energy bands with Van Hove singularities close to the Fermi level. These singularities play an important role in the exotic phenomena observed in this material, such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Aleksander Sanjuan Ciepielewski , Jakub Tworzydło , Timo Hyart , Alexander Lau