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In bilayer graphene, electrostatic confinement can be realized by a suitable design of top and back gate electrodes. We measure electronic transport through a bilayer graphene quantum dot, which is laterally confined by gapped regions and…

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Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Semin Kwak , Laura Shimabukuro , Antonio Ortega

Electron fully spin-polarized edge states in graphene emerged at the interfaces of a nonuniform magnetic field are studied numerically in a tight-binding model, with both the orbital and Zeeman-splitting effects of magnetic field…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-09-19 Lei Xu , Jin An , Chang-De Gong

A nanoelectronic device made of twisted bilayer graphene (TBLG) is proposed to steer the direction of the current flow. The ballistic electron current, injected at one edge of the bottom layer, can be guided predominantly to one of the…

Generating discernible valley contrasts and segregating valley-indexed fermions in real space within graphene poses considerable challenges due to the isotropic transport within the continuum energy range for degenerate valleys. This study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Shrushti Tapar , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

We investigate the electronic transport in graphene nanoelectromechanical resonators (GrNEMS), known also as graphene nanodrums or nanomembranes. We demonstrate that these devices, despite small values of out-of-plane strain, between $0.1$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Walter Ortiz , Nikodem Szpak , Thomas Stegmann

We study spin and valley-dependent transport properties in an n-p-n junction of 8-pmmn borophene monolayer. An external gate voltage and exchange magnetic field, induced by the proximity effect of a ferromagnetic insulator, are applied to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Fatemeh Imanian Mofrad Bidgoli , Hossein Nikoofard , Narges Nikoofard , Mahdi Esmaeilzadeh

Achieving a population imbalance between the two inequivalent valleys is a critical first step for any valleytronic device. A valley-polarization can be induced in biased bilayer graphene using circularly polarized light. In this paper, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Alex Friedlan , Marc M. Dignam

Recent experiments have revealed that novel nonequilibrium states consistent with the hydrodynamic description of electrons are realized in ultrapure graphene, which hosts the valley degrees of freedom. Here, we formulate a theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Ryotaro Sano , Daigo Oue , Mamoru Matsuo

In strained graphene, lattice deformation can create pseudo-magnetic fields and result in zero-field Landau level-like quantization. In the presence of an external magnetic field, valley-polarized Landau levels are predicted to be observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Si-Yu Li , Ke-Ke Bai , Long-Jing Yin , Jia-Bin Qiao , Wen-Xiao Wang , Lin He

The physical model that allows to calculate the values of the tunneling current be-tween graphene layers is proposed. The tunneling current according to the pro-posed model is proportional to the area of tunneling transition. The calculated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Nikolai A. Poklonski , Andrei I. Siahlo , Sergey A. Vyrko , Andrey M. Popov , Yurii E. Lozovik

We propose a novel spin filter based on a graphene nanoring fabricated above a ferromagnetic strip. The exchange interaction between the magnetic moments of the ions in the ferromagnet and the electron spin splits the electronic states, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Javier Munárriz , Francisco Domínguez-Adame , Pedro A. Orellana , Andrey V. Malyshev

We investigate a valleytronic device based on graphene with charge separation at different sublattices and correspondingly at nonequivalent valleys. We characterize the maximality condition of valley polarization and investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Hamed Koochaki Kelardeh , Mohammadreza Eidi , Takashi Oka , Jan Michael Rost

Spatial manipulation of current flow in graphene could be achieved through the use of a tilted pn junction. We show through numerical simulation that a pseudo-Hall effect (i.e. non-equilibrium charge and current density accumulating along…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-20 Tony Low , Joerg Appenzeller

The ground state of a graphene sheet at charge neutrality in a perpendicular magnetic field remains enigmatic, with various experiments supporting canted antiferromagnetic, bond ordered, and even charge density wave phases. A promising…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Arup Kumar Paul , Manas Ranjan Sahu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , J. K. Jain , Ganpathy Murthy , Anindya Das

We study numerically cross conductances in a four-terminal all-graphene setup. We show that far away from the Dirac point current flows along zigzag directions, giving the possibility to guide the current between terminals using a tunable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-01 Kimmo Sääskilahti , Ari Harju , Pirjo Pasanen

Photon-assisted charge transport through a double barrier structure under a time periodic field in graphene is studied. Within the framework of the Floquet formalism and using the transfer matrix method, the transmission probabilities for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-12 H. P. Ojeda-Collado , C. Rodríguez-Castellanos

Graphene, and other members of the monolayer Xene family, represent an ideal materials platform for "valleytronics", the control of valley localized charge excitations. The absence of a gap in these semi-metals, however, precludes valley…

In multivalley semiconductors, the valley degree of freedom can be potentially used to store, manipulate and read quantum information, but its control remains challenging. The valleys in bilayer graphene can be addressed by a perpendicular…

The demand for compact, high-speed and energy-saving circuitry urges higher efficiency of spintronic devices that can offer a viable alternative for the current electronics. The route towards this goal suggests implementing two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Talieh S. Ghiasi , Alexey A. Kaverzin , Avalon H. Dismukes , Dennis K. de Wal , Xavier Roy , Bart J. van Wees