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The two-dimensional nature of graphene makes it an ideal platform to explore proximity-induced unconventional planar superconductivity and the possibility of topological superconductivity. Using Green's functions techniques, we study the…

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We observe conductivity oscillations with aperiodic spacing to only one side of the tunneling current in a dual-gated graphene field effect transistor with an n-p-n type potential barrier. The spacing and width of these oscillatoins were…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Milan Begliarbekov , Onejae Sul , Nan Ai , Eui-Hyeok Yang , Stefan Strauf

The optical conductivity of freely suspended graphene was examined under non-equilibrium conditions using femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy. We observed a conductivity transient that varied strongly with the electronic temperature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-20 Leandro M. Malard , Kin Fai Mak , A. H. Castro Neto , N. M. R. Peres , Tony F. Heinz

The ballistic motion of electrons in graphene encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) promises exciting opportunities for electron-optics devices. A narrow electron beam is desired, with both the mean free path and coherence length…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-30 Sagar Bhandari , Gil-Ho Lee , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Philip Kim , Robert M Westervelt

The behavior of the TE and TM electromagnetic waves in graphene at the interface between two semi-infinite dielectric media is studied. The dramatic influence on the TE waves propagation even at very small changes in the optical contrast…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 O. V. Kotov , M. A. Kol'chenko , Yu. E. Lozovik

The problem of electrostatic screening of a charged line by undoped or weakly doped graphene is treated beyond the linear-response theory. The induced electron density is found to be approximately doping independent, n(x)~(log x)^2/x^2, at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Bor-Yuan Jiang , Michael M. Fogler

Controlling the energy flow processes and the associated energy relaxation rates of a light emitter is of high fundamental interest, and has many applications in the fields of quantum optics, photovoltaics, photodetection, biosensing and…

Hybrid graphene-superconductor devices have attracted much attention since the early days of graphene research. So far, these studies have been limited to the case of diffusive transport through graphene with poorly defined and modest…

A new mechanism of longitudinal confinement of optical energy via coupled plasmon modes is proposed in chains of noble metal nanoparticles embedded in a graded dielectric medium, which is analogous to the confinement of electrons in…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. J. Xiao , K. Yakubo , K. W. Yu

We observe a dc electric current in response to terahertz radiation in lateral inter-digitated double-comb graphene p-n junctions. The junctions were fabricated by selective ultraviolet irradiation inducing p-type doping in intrinsic n-type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Yu. B. Vasilyev , G. Yu. Vasileva , S. Novikov , S. A. Tarasenko , S. N. Danilov , S. D. Ganichev

Nonreciprocal photonic devices play a significant role in regulating the propagation of electromagnetic waves. Here we theoretically investigate the nonreciprocal properties of transverse magnetic modes in a one-dimensional graphene-based…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-02 D. P. Huang , K. Y. Xu

The conductance of ballistic graphene at the neutrality point is due to coherent electron tunneling between the leads, the so called pseudodiffusive regime. The conductance scales as function of the sample dimensions in the same way as in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson

Graphene-based photodetectors have shown responsivities up to 10$^8$A/W and photoconductive gains up to 10$^{8}$ electrons per photon. These photodetectors rely on a highly absorbing layer in close proximity of graphene, which induces a…

We study theoretically the coherent electron focusing in graphene nanoribbons. Using semiclassical and numerical tight binding calculations we show that perfect armchair edges give rise to equidistant peaks in the focusing spectrum. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-22 Peter Rakyta , Andor Kormanyos , Jozsef Cserti , Pekka Koskinen

Isolated, atomically thin conducting membranes of graphite, called graphene, have recently been the subject of intense research with the hope that practical applications in fields ranging from electronics to energy science will emerge.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 S. Garaj , W. Hubbard , A. Reina , J. Kong , D. Branton , J. A. Golovchenko

We present ab-initio transport calculations for molecular junctions that include graphene as a protecting layer between a single molecule and gold electrodes. This vertical setup has recently gained significant interest in experiment for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Falco Hüser , Gemma C. Solomon

We present a new paradigm for understanding optical absorption and hot electron dynamics experiments in graphene. Our analysis pivots on assigning proper importance to phonon assisted indirect processes and bleaching of direct processes. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-22 Yuan Yang , Grigory Kolesov , Lucas Kocia , Eric J. Heller

We propose optical longitudinal conductivity as a realistic observable to detect light-induced Floquet band gaps in graphene. These gaps manifest as resonant features in the conductivity, when resolved with respect to the probing frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Lukas Broers , Ludwig Mathey

The experimental availability of ultra-high-mobility samples of graphene opens the possibility to realize and study experimentally the "hydrodynamic" regime of the electron liquid. In this regime the rate of electron-electron collisions is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Principi , Giovanni Vignale

We study the interaction of electromagnetic (EM) radiation with single-layer graphene and a stack of parallel graphene sheets at arbitrary angles of incidence. It is found that the behavior is qualitatively different for transverse magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 Yuliy V. Bludov , Nuno M. R. Peres , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy