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Hexagonal boron nitride is the only substrate that has so far allowed graphene devices exhibiting micron-scale ballistic transport. Can other atomically flat crystals be used as substrates for making quality graphene heterostructures? Here…

We investigate the electronic properties of heterostructures based on ultrathin hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) crystalline layers sandwiched between two layers of graphene as well as other conducting materials (graphite, gold). The tunnel…

We theoretically study in-plane acoustic phonons of graphene/hexagonal boron nitride moir\'e superlattice by using a continuum model. We demonstrate that the original phonon bands of individual layers are strongly hybridized and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Lukas P. A. Krisna , Mikito Koshino

Recently hybridized monolayers consisting of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) phases inside graphene layer have been synthesized and shown to be an effective way of opening band gap in graphene monolayers [1]. In this letter, we report an ab…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-04-27 Qing Peng , Amir R. Zamiri , Wei Ji , Suvranu De

In heterostructures consisting of atomically thin crystals layered on top of one another, lattice mismatch or rotation between the layers results in long-wavelength moir\'e superlattices. These moir\'e patterns can drive significant band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Nathan R. Finney , Matthew Yankowitz , Lithurshanaa Muraleetharan , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Cory R. Dean , James Hone

When monolayer graphene is crystallographically aligned to hexagonal boron nitride (BN), a moir\'e superlattice is formed, producing characteristic satellite Dirac peaks in the electronic band structure. Aligning a second BN layer to…

Electronic properties of the graphene layer sandwiched between two hexagonal boron nitride sheets have been studied using the first-principles calculations and the minimal tight-binding model. It is shown that for the ABC-stacked structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-10 J. Slawinska , I. Zasada , P. Kosinski , Z. Klusek

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is drawing increasing attention as an insulator and substrate material to develop next generation graphene-based electronic devices. In this paper, we investigate the quantum transport in heterostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Y. Zhao , Z. Wan , X. Xu , S. R. Patil , U. Hetmaniuk , M. P. Anantram

The atomically-precise controlled synthesis of graphene stripes embedded in hexagonal boron nitride opens up new possibilities for the construction of nanodevices with applications in sensing. Here, we explore properties related to…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-21 Fabio A. L. de Souza , Wanderla L. Scopel , Rodrigo G. Amorim , Ralph H. Scheicher

Hexagonal boron nitride (BN), one of the very few layered insulators, plays a crucial role in 2D materials research. In particular, BN grown with a high pressure technique has proven to be an excellent substrate material for graphene and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 J. Sonntag , J. Li , A. Plaud , A. Loiseau , J. Barjon , J. H. Edgar , C. Stampfer

We numerically investigate the impact of boron nitride (BN) domains on the transport properties of graphene nanoribbons with lengths ranging from a few to several hundreds of nanometers and lateral size up to 4 nm. By varying the size and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla , Stephan Roche

Current interest in two-dimensional materials extends from graphene to others systems like single-layer hexagonal boron-nitride (h-BN), for the possibility of making heterogeneous structures to achieve exceptional properties that cannot be…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-04 Jiangtao Wu , Baolin Wang , Yujie Wei , Ronggui Yang , Mildred Dresselhaus

In this article, we report the electronic band structures of hexagonal bilayer systems, specifically, rotated graphene-graphene and boron nitride-boron nitride bilayers, by introducing an angle between the layers and forming new periodic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-26 W. S. Wu-Mei , R. R. Rey-González

In this Letter, we derive an effective theory of graphene on a hexagonal Boron Nitride (h-BN) substrate. We show that the h-BN substrate generically opens a spectral gap in graphene despite the lattice mismatch. The origin of that gap is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 M. Kindermann , Bruno Uchoa , D. L. Miller

Quasi-periodic moir\'{e} patterns and their effect on electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) have been intensely studied. At small twist angle $\theta$, due to atomic reconstruction, the moir\'e superlattice morphs into a…

Devices made from graphene encapsulated in hexagonal boron-nitride exhibit pronounced negative bend resistance and an anomalous Hall effect, which are a direct consequence of room-temperature ballistic transport on a micrometer scale for a…

The field of graphene research has developed rapidly since its first isolation by mechanical exfoliation in 2004. Due to the relativistic Dirac nature of its charge carriers, graphene is both a promising material for next-generation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 Matthew Yankowitz , Jiamin Xue , Brian J. LeRoy

Vertical integration of two-dimensional materials has recently emerged as an exciting method for the design of novel electronic and optoelectronic devices. Using density functional theory, we investigatethe structural and electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Yongqing Cai , Gang Zhang , Yong-Wei Zhang

Rhombohedral graphene (rG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been shown to host flat bands that stabilize various strongly correlated quantum phases, including Mott insulators, integer, and fractional quantum anomalous Hall…

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) encapsulation significantly improves carrier transport in graphene. This work investigates the benefit of implementing the encapsulation technique in graphene field-effect transistors (GFET) in terms of their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-28 Pedro C. Feijoo , Francisco Pasadas , José M. Iglesias , El Mokhtar Hamham , Raúl Rengel , David Jiménez