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We theoretically study the inelastic scattering rate and the carrier mean free path for energetic hot electrons in graphene, including both electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions. Taking account of optical phonon emission and…

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We develop a microscopic theory describing the peak in the temperature dependence of the non-local resistance of three-terminal NSN devices. This peak emerges at sufficiently high temperatures as a result of a competition between…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-02-08 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

In this paper we study an evolution of low-temperature thermodynamical quantities for an electron gas with a $ \delta $-function attraction as the system crosses over from weak-coupling (BCS-type) to strong-coupling (Bose-type)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Egor Babaev

We determine the density-dependent electron mass, m*, in two-dimensional (2D) electron systems of GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures by performing detailed low-temperature Shubnikov deHaas measurements. Using very high quality transistors with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. -W. Tan , J. Zhu , H. L. Stormer , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West

We study the electronic transport properties of dual-gated bilayer graphene devices. We focus on the regime of low temperatures and high electric displacement fields, where we observe a clear exponential dependence of the resistance as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Thiti Taychatanapat , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Both superconductivity and thermoelectricity offer promising prospects for daily energy efficiency applications. The advancements of thermoelectric materials have led to the huge improvement of the thermoelectric figure of merit in the past…

We report on ballistic transport over more than 28 \mu m in graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) that is fully encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride. The structures are fabricated by an advanced dry van-der-Waals transfer…

Light-element compounds hold great promise of high critical temperature superconductivity judging from the theoretical perspective. Hydrogen-rich material, benzene, is such a kind of candidate but also an organic compound. A series of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-24 Guo-Hua Zhong , Chun-Lei Yang , Xiao-Jia Chen , Hai-Qing Lin

We investigated the electrical transport properties of superconductor-graphene-superconductor (SGS) Josephson junctions. In low voltage bias, we observed conventional proximity-coupled Josephson effect, such as the supercurrent flow through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-23 Jae-Hyun Choi , Hu-Jong Lee , Yong-Joo Doh

Vertical heterostructures combining different layered materials offer novel opportunities for applications and fundamental studies of collective behavior driven by inter-layer Coulomb coupling. Here we report heterostructures comprising a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-09 A. Gamucci , D. Spirito , M. Carrega , B. Karmakar , A. Lombardo , M. Bruna , A. C. Ferrari , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , Marco Polini , V. Pellegrini

Superconducting properties of a material, such as electron-electron interactions and the critical temperature of superconducting transition can be expressed via the effective dielectric response function of the material. Such a description…

Optics · Physics 2014-12-01 Igor I. Smolyaninov , Vera N. Smolyaninova

The crystal structure and numerous normal and superconducting state properties of layered tetragonal (P4/nmm) LaFeAsO, with F-doping of 11 %, are reported. Resistivity measurements give an onset transition temperature Tc = 28.2 K, and low…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Athena S. Sefat , Michael A. McGuire , Brian C. Sales , Rongying Jin , Jane Y. Howe , David Mandrus

GaAs-based two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) show a wealth of remarkable electronic states, and serve as the basis for fast transistors, research on electrons in nanostructures, and prototypes of quantum-computing schemes. All these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-21 M. P. Jura , M. A. Topinka , L. Urban , A. Yazdani , H. Shtrikman , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) confined to the surface of narrowband semiconductors have attracted great interest since they can easily integrate with superconductivity (or ferromagnetism) enabling new possibilities in hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-10 Kaushini Wickramasinghe , William Mayer , Joseph Yuan , Tri Nguyen , Lucy Jiao , Vladimir Manucharyan , Javad Shabani

We consider the shape of the curves of "Andreev" conductance of non-ballistic point contact NS heterosystems depending on the bias voltage at the contact. The obtained shape of those curves is caused by the contribution from the mechanism…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-26 Yu. N. Chiang , M. O. Dzyuba , O. G. Shevchenko , A. N. Vasiliev

We report on nonlinear transport measurements in a two-dimensional electron gas hosted in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. Upon application of direct current, the low-temperature differential resistivity acquires a positive correction, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-01 O. E. Raichev , A. T. Hatke , M. A. Zudov , J. L. Reno

In high-quality solid-state systems at low temperatures, the hydrodynamic or the ballistic regimes of heat and charge transport are realized in the electron and the phonon systems. In these regimes, the thermal and the electric conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 P. S. Alekseev , M. A. Semina

$YBaCuO-Ag$ pressure point contacts with direct conduction are investigated. The excess (relative to the normal state) conductivity mainly caused by fluctuational pairing of electrons above $T_c$ is measured in the temperature interval…

Author offers and researches a new idea - filling tubes by electronic gases. He shows: If the insulating envelope (cover) of the tube is charged positively, the electrons within the tube are not attracted to covering. Tube (as a whole)…

General Physics · Physics 2008-05-05 Alexander Bolonkin

A cage compound AxV2Al20 (Al10V), that was called an Einstein solid by Caplin and coworkers 40 years ago, is revisited to investigate the low-energy, local vibrations of the A atoms and their influence on the electronic and superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-03 Atsushi Onosaka , Yoshihiko Okamoto , Jun-ichi Yamaura , Zenji Hiroi