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Valley is a useful degree of freedom for non-dissipative electronics since valley current that can flow even in an insulating material does not accompany electronic current. We use dual-gated bilayer graphene in the Hall bar geometry to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Yuya Shimazaki , Michihisa Yamamoto , Ivan V. Borzenets , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Seigo Tarucha

In addition to electron charge and spin, novel materials host another degree of freedom, the valley. For a junction composed of valley filter sandwiched by two normal terminals, we focus on the valley efficiency under disorder with two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Shu-guang Cheng , Jiaojiao Zhou , Hua Jiang , Qing-Feng Sun

We theoretically study valley-filtering in pristine graphene irradiated by bicircular counter-rotating laser drive. The dynamical symmetry of the graphene and laser drive disrupts graphene's inversion symmetry, which results distinct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Rekha Kumari , Gopal Dixit , Arijit Kundu

Valleytronics using two-dimensional materials opens unprecedented opportunities for information processing with the valley polarizer being a basic building block. Paradigms such as strain engineering, the inclusion of line defects, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Shrushti Tapar , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

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

We show that the optical excitation of graphene with polarized light leads to the pure valley current where carriers in the valleys counterflow. The current in each valley originates from asymmetry of optical transitions and electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 L. E. Golub , S. A. Tarasenko , M. V. Entin , L. I. Magarill

The low energy band structure of graphene has two inequivalent valleys at K and K' points of the Brillouin zone. The possibility to manipulate this valley degree of freedom defines the field of valleytronics, the valley analogue of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Mikkel Settnes , Stephen R. Power , Mads Brandbyge , Antti-Pekka Jauho

The generation of a fully valley-polarized current (FVPC) in bulk graphene is a fundamental goal in valleytronics. To this end, we investigate valley-dependent transport through a strained graphene modulated by a finite magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-04 Yu Song , Feng Zhai , Yong Guo

The valley degree of freedom in 2D materials can be manipulated for low-dissipation quantum electronics called valleytronics. At the boundary between two regions of bilayer graphene with different atomic or electrostatic configuration,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-03 Konstantin Davydov , Xi Zhang , Wei Ren , Matthew Coles , Logan Kline , Bryan Zucker , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ke Wang

Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) has been employed to probe charge carriers in a graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) heterostructure [Nano Lett, 21, 5013 (2021)]. We propose an approach for operating valley filtering based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-19 A. Belayadi , N. A. Hadadi , P. Vasilopoulos , A. Abbout

Valley filtering processes have been explored in different graphene-based configurations and scenarios to control transport responses. Here we propose graphene multi-terminal set-ups properly designed to obtain valley filtered currents in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Vanessa Torres , Daiara Faria , Andrea Latgé

This work investigates the feasibility of electrical valley filtering for holes in transition metal dichalcogenides. We look specifically into the scheme that utilizes a potential barrier to produce valley-dependent tunneling rates, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Tzu-Chi Hsieh , Mei-Yin Chou , Yu-Shu Wu

In solid, the crystalline structure can endow electron an internal degree of freedom known as valley, which characterizes the degenerate energy minima in momentum space. The recent success in optical pumping of valley polarization in 2D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Xing-Tao An , Jiang Xiao , M. W. -Y. Tu , Hongyi Yu , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , Wang Yao

Valleytronics, which makes use of the two valleys in graphenes, attracts considerable attention and a valley filter is expected to be the central component in valleytronics. We propose the application of the graphene valley filter using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Mitsuharu Uemoto , Masaki Nishiura , Tomoya Ono

The electron transport of different conical valleys is investigated in graphene with extended line-defects. Intriguingly, the electron with a definite incident angle can be completely modulated into one conical valley by a resonator which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-02 Yang Liu , Juntao Song , Yuxian Li , Ying Liu , Qing-feng Sun

The possibility to effect valley splitting of an electronic current in graphene represents the essential component in the new field of valleytronics in such two-dimensional materials. Based on a symmetry analysis of the scattering matrix,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Mahmoud M. Asmar , Sergio E. Ulloa

Electrons in two-dimensional hexagonal materials have valley degree of freedom, which can be used to encode and process quantum information. The valley-selective excitations, governed by the circularly polarised light resonant with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-19 M. S. Mrudul , Álvaro Jiménez-Galán , Misha Ivanov , Gopal Dixit

Valleytronics is a pioneering technological field relying on the valley degree of freedom to achieve novel electronic functionalities. Topological valley-polarized electrons confined to domain walls in bilayer graphene were extensively…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-09 Doried Ghader

Realizations of some topological phases in two-dimensional systems rely on the challenge of jointly incorporating spin-orbit and magnetic exchange interactions. Here, we predict the formation and control of a fully valley-polarized quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 Marc Vila , Jose H. Garcia , Stephan Roche

In monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides time-reversal symmetry, combined with space-inversion symmetry, defines the spin-valley degree of freedom. As such, engineering and control of time-reversal symmetry by optical or magnetic…