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Dominating electron-electron scattering enables viscous electron flow exhibiting hydrodynamic current density patterns such as Poiseuille profiles or vortices. The viscous regime has recently been observed in graphene by non-local transport…

Graphene provides a fascinating testbed for new physics and exciting opportunities for future applications based on quantum phenomena. To understand the coherent flow of electrons through a graphene device, we employ a nanoscale probe that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-29 J. Berezovsky , M. F. Borunda , E. J. Heller , R. M. Westervelt

Reflectance and transmittance of graphene in the optical region are analyzed as a function of frequency, temperature, and carrier density. We show that the optical graphene properties are determined by the direct interband electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. A. Falkovsky

In this work we compare two fundamentally different approaches to the electronic transport in deformed graphene: a) the condensed matter approach in which current flow paths are obtained by applying the non-equilibrium Green's function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-23 Thomas Stegmann , Nikodem Szpak

We show that a graphene pnp junction with a central superconducting electrode acts as a Veselago lens for incoming electrons by focusing them and their phase-conjugated counterpart (holes) into different points of the optical axis. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-11 S. Gomez , P. Burset , W. J. Herrera , A. Levy Yeyati

A near-field scanning optical microscope is used to locally induce photocurrent in a graphene transistor with high spatial resolution. By analyzing the spatially resolved photo-response, we find that in the n-type conduction regime a p-n-p…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Mueller , F. Xia , M. Freitag , J. Tsang , Ph. Avouris

We use the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) method in the ballistic limit to provide a quantitative description of the conductance of graphene pn junctions - an important building block for graphene electronics devices. In this paper,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-06 Tony Low , Seokmin Hong , Joerg Appenzeller , Supriyo Datta , Mark Lundstrom

We investigate the transport of electrons in disordered and pristine graphene devices. Fano shot noise, a standard metric to assess the mechanism for electronic transport in mesoscopic devices, has been shown to produce almost the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Mario F. Borunda , H. Hennig , Eric J. Heller

Graphene is an ideal material for optoelectronic applications. Its photonic properties give several advantages and complementarities over Si photonics. For example, graphene enables both electro-absorption and electro-refraction modulation…

Graphene/silicon (G/Si) heterojunction based devices have been demonstrated as high responsivity photodetectors that are potentially compatible with semiconductor technology. Such G/Si Schottky junction diodes are typically in parallel with…

Graphene has proven to host outstanding mesoscopic effects involving massless Dirac quasiparticles travelling ballistically resulting in the current flow exhibiting light-like behaviour. A new branch of 2D electronics inspired by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Gaetano Calogero , Nick R. Papior , Peter Bøggild , Mads Brandbyge

We present a theoretical study of electron wave functions in ballistic circular n-p junctions of bilayer graphene. Similarly to the case of a circular n-p junction of monolayer graphene, we find that (i) the wave functions form caustics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-13 Cs. Peterfalvi , A. Palyi , J. Cserti

The p-n junctions dynamics in graphene channel induced by stripe domains nucleation, motion and reversal in a ferroelectric substrate is explored using self-consistent approach based on Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire phenomenology combined with…

Experimental investigation of hydrodynamics in electron fluids is a highly topical research area that emerged during the last few years. A recent measurement of the optical conductivity in graphene [P. Gallagher et.al, Science 364, 158…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 B. N. Narozhny

Thanks to their highly tunable band gaps, graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with atomically precise edges are emerging as mechanically and chemically robust candidates for nanoscale light emitting devices of modulable emission color. While their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 Michael C. Chong , Nasima Afshar-Imani , Fabrice Scheurer , Claudia Cardoso , Andrea Ferretti , Deborah Prezzi , Guillaume Schull

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

We investigate the optical properties of edge-functionalized graphene nanosystems, focusing on the formation of junctions and charge transfer excitons. We consider a class of graphene structures which combine the main electronic features of…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-18 Caterina Cocchi , Deborah Prezzi , Alice Ruini , Marilia J. Caldas , Elisa Molinari

Graphene two-dimensional nature combined with today lithography allows to achieve nanoelectronics devices smaller than the Dirac electrons wavelength. Here we show that in these graphene subwavelength nanodevices the electronic quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-08 Pierre Darancet , Valerio Olevano , Didier Mayou

Elastic deformations of graphene can significantly change the flow paths and valley polarization of the electric currents. We investigate these phenomena in graphene nanoribbons with localized out-of-plane deformations by means of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Thomas Stegmann , Nikodem Szpak

The unusual electronic properties of single-layer graphene make it a promising material system for fundamental advances in physics, and an attractive platform for new device technologies. Graphene's spin transport properties are expected to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-23 Mark B. Lundeberg , Joshua A. Folk