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The conductance through single-layer graphene (SLG) and AA/AB-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) junctions is obtained by taking into account band gap and bias voltage terms. First, we consider gapped SLG, while in between, they are connected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Nadia Benlakhouy , Ahmed Jellal , El Houssine Atmani

We simulate the electronic and transport properties of metal/two-dimensional material/metal vertical heterostructures, with a focus on graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and two phases of molybdenum diselenide. Using density functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Gaëlle Bigeard , Zineb Kerrami , François Triozon , Alessandro Cresti

Closing the gap between ray tracing simulations and experimentally observed electron jetting in bilayer graphene (BLG), we study all-electronic, gate-defined BLG cavities using tight-binding simulations and semiclassical equations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Florian Schoeppl , Alina Mrenca-Kolasinska , Ming-Hao Liu , Korbinian Schwarzmaier , Klaus Richter , Angelika Knothe

Most materials in available macroscopic quantities are polycrystalline. Graphene, a recently discovered two-dimensional form of carbon with strong potential for replacing silicon in future electronics, is no exception. There is growing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Oleg V. Yazyev , Steven G. Louie

Hydrodynamic electron transport arises when carrier kinetics are dominated by interelectron collisions rather than the relaxation of momentum out of the electron system. In recent years, signatures of electron hydrodynamics have been…

The electronic properties of graphene superlattices have attracted intense interest that was further stimulated by the recent observation of novel many-body states at "magic" angles in twisted bilayer graphene (BLG). For very small…

We report on a strongly coupled bilayer graphene (BLG) - \bise\ device with a junction resistance of less than 1.5 k$\Omega\mu$m$^2$. This device exhibits unique behavior at the interface, which cannot be attributed to either material in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-23 Ayelet Zalic , Tom Dvir , Hadar Steinberg

Transport measurements have revealed several exotic electronic properties of graphene. The possibility to influence the electronic structure and hence control the conductivity by adsorption or doping with adatoms is crucial in view of…

One popular approach to prepare graphene is to grow them on transition metal substrates via chemical vapor deposition. By using the density functional theory with dispersion correction, we systematically investigate for the first time the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 Jiaxin Zheng , Yangyang Wang , Lu Wang , Ruge Quhe , Zeyuan Ni , Wai-Ning Mei , Zhengxiang Gao , Dapeng Yu , Junjie Shi , Jing Lu

A transformation of the band structure in bilayer graphene (BLG) with relatively shifted layers has been studied in the framework of the tight-binding model. BLG is demonstrated to remain a zero-gap material in the whole range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 V. G. Litovchenko , A. I. Kurchak , M. V. Strikha

We perform transport measurements in high quality bilayer graphene pnp junctions with suspended top gates. At a magnetic field B=0, we demonstrate band gap opening by an applied perpendicular electric field, with an On/Off ratio up to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Lei Jing , Jairo Velasco , Philip Kratz , Gang Liu , Wenzhong Bao , Marc Bockrath , Chun Ning Lau

We theoretically investigate effect of a transverse electric field generated by side gates and a vertical electric field generated by top, back gates on energy bands and transport properties of zigzag bilayer graphene ribbons (Bernal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Thanh-Tra Vu , Van-Truong Tran

In a multi-layer electronic system, stacking order provides a rarely-explored degree of freedom for tuning its electronic properties. Here we demonstrate the dramatically different transport properties in trilayer graphene (TLG) with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-23 W. Bao , L. Jing , Y. Lee , J. Velasco , P. Kratz , D. Tran , B. Standley , M. Aykol , S. B. Cronin , D. Smirnov , M. Koshino , E. McCann , M. Bockrath , C. N. Lau

Coulomb drag between parallel quantum wells provides a uniquely sensitive measurement of electron correlations since the drag response depends on interactions only. Recently it has been demonstrated that a new regime of strong interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 J. I. A. Li , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , J. Hone , A. Levchenko , C. R. Dean

Electronic transport properties of monolayer graphene with extreme physical bending up to 90o angle are studied using ab Initio first-principle calculations. The importance of key structural parameters including step height, curvature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-31 Haiyuan Gao , Yang Xu , Meijiao Li , Zhendong Guo , Hongshen Chen , Zhonghe Jin , Bin Yu

Bilayer graphene -- two coupled single graphene layers stacked as in graphite -- provides the only known semiconductor with a gap that can be tuned externally through electric field effect. Here we use a tight binding approach to study how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Eduardo V. Castro , N. M. R. Peres , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , F. Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto

We study ballistic transport in periodically gated bilayer graphene as a candidate for a 2D electronic metamaterial. Our calculations use the equilibrium Green function formalism and take into account quantum corrections to charge density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Xianqing Lin , David Tomanek

Electronic transport in the regime where carrier-carrier collisions are the dominant scattering mechanism has taken on new relevance with the advent of ultraclean two-dimensional materials. Here we present a combined theoretical and…

The coupling of charge carrier motion and pseudospin via chirality for massless Dirac fermions in monolayer graphene has generated dramatic consequences, such as the unusual quantum Hall effect and Klein tunneling. In bilayer graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Kyunghoon Lee , Seunghyun Lee , Yun Suk Eo , Cagliyan Kurdak , Zhaohui Zhong

We demonstrate by experiments and numerical simulations that the low-temperature current-voltage characteristics in diffusive bilayer graphene (BLG) exhibit a strong superlinearity at finite bias voltages. The superlinearity is weakly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-24 J. K. Viljas , A. Fay , M. Wiesner , P. J. Hakonen