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A transfer matrix approach is used to study the electronic transport in graphene superlattices with long-range correlated barrier spacements. By considering the low-energy electronic excitations as massless Dirac fermions, we compute by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 Anderson L. R. Barbosa , Jonas R. F. Lima , Ícaro S. F. Bezerra , Marcelo L. Lyra

This study is devoted to the profound implications of tilted Dirac cones on the quantum transport properties of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac materials. These materials, characterized by their linear conic energy dispersions in the vicinity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Rasha Al-Marzoog , Ali Rezaei , Zahra Noorinejad , Mohsen Amini , Ebrahim Ghanbari-Adivi , S. A. Jafari

The behavior of electrons in strained graphene is usually described using effective pseudomagnetic fields in a Dirac equation. Here we consider the particular case of a spatially constant strain. Our results indicate that lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 M. Oliva-Leyva , G. G. Naumis

We study the transport properties of Dirac fermions in a graphene-based double-barrier structure composed of two tilted-cone regions separated by a central pristine graphene region. Using the transfer matrix method, we systematically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 M. Raggui , O. Habti , A. Kamal , E. B. Choubabi

The outstanding electronic properties of relativistic-like fermions have been extensively studied in solid state systems with isotropic linear dispersions such as graphene. Here, we show that 2D and 3D Dirac-Weyl (DW) materials exhibiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Viet Hung Nguyen , Jean-Christophe Charlier

In this work we investigate theoretically the influence of a Fermi velocity modulation in the electronic and transport properties of magnetic graphene superlattices. We solve the effective Dirac equation for graphene with a position…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 Ícaro S. F. Bezerra , Jonas R. F. Lima

In this article, we employ the transfer matrix method (TMM) to analytically explore the impact of uniaxial strain on electron scattering in graphene under locally periodic and super-periodic electrostatic potential. Our study reveals that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Sudhanshu Shekhar , Bhabani Prasad Mandal , Anirban Dutta

Dirac-electronic tunneling and nonlinear transport properties with both finite and zero energy bandgap are investigated for graphene with a tilted potential barrier under a bias. For validation, results from a finite-difference based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Farhana Anwar , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Ashwani Sharma

It is highly desirable to integrate graphene into existing semiconductor technology, where the combined system is thermodynamically stable yet maintain a Dirac cone at the Fermi level. Firstprinciples calculations reveal that a certain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-16 Yuanchang Li , Pengcheng Chen , Gang Zhou , Jia Li , Jian Wu , Bing-Lin Gu , S. B. Zhang , Wenhui Duan

Graphene has emerged as a paradigmatic material in condensed matter physics due to its exceptional electronic, mechanical, and thermal properties. A deep understanding of its thermoelectric transport behavior is crucial for the development…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Juan A. Cañas , Daniel A. Bonilla , A. Martín-Ruiz

We provide a broad review of fundamental electronic properties of two-dimensional graphene with the emphasis on density and temperature dependent carrier transport in doped or gated graphene structures. A salient feature of our review is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 S. Das Sarma , Shaffique Adam , E. H. Hwang , Enrico Rossi

We investigate spin transport through ferromagnetic graphene vertical heterostructures where a sandwiched tunneling layer is either a normal or ferroelectric insulator. We show that the spin-polarization of the tunneling current is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-31 Nojoon Myoung , Hee Chul Park , Seung Joo Lee

We study tunneling across a strain-induced superlattice in graphene. In studying the effect of applied strain on the low-lying Dirac-like spectrum, both a shift of the Dirac points in reciprocal space, and a deformation of the Dirac cones…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

Graphene has proven to host outstanding mesoscopic effects involving massless Dirac quasiparticles travelling ballistically resulting in the current flow exhibiting light-like behaviour. A new branch of 2D electronics inspired by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Gaetano Calogero , Nick R. Papior , Peter Bøggild , Mads Brandbyge

We study electron transport in a strained graphene sheet subjected to a sequence of $N$ electrostatic and magnetic barriers. Employing a modified and improved transfer-matrix framework, we examine how the transmission and reflection…

We consider systems described by the two-dimensional Dirac equation where the Fermi velocity is inhomogeneous as a consequence of mechanical deformations. We show that the mechanical deformations can lead to deflection and focusing of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Alonso Contreras-Astorga , Vit Jakubsky , Alfredo Raya

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, especially their most prominent member, graphene, have greatly influenced many scientific areas. Moreover, they have become a base for investigating the relativistic properties of condensed matter within the…

We study the electronic and transport properties of a graphene-based superlattice theoretically by using an effective Dirac equation. The superlattice consists of a periodic potential applied on a single-layer graphene deposited on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Jonas R. F. Lima

This review aims at a theoretical discussion of Dirac points in two-dimensional systems. Whereas Dirac points and Dirac fermions are prominent low-energy electrons in graphene (two-dimensional graphite), research on Dirac fermions in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Mark O. Goerbig , Gilles Montambaux

The tunneling effect of two-dimensional Dirac fermions in a constant magnetic field is studied. This can be done by using the continuity equation at some points to determine the corresponding reflexion and transmission coefficients. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-28 El Bouazzaoui Choubabi , Mohamed El Bouziani , Ahmed Jellal
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