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Intrinsic and extrinsic valley Hall effects are predicted to emerge in graphene systems with uniform or spatially-varying mass terms. Extrinsic mechanisms, mediated by the valley-dependent scattering of electrons at the Fermi surface, can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Fionnuala Solomon , Stephen R. Power

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

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…

Propagation of an electron wave packet through a quantum point contact (QPC) defined by electrostatic gates in bilayer graphene is investigated. The gates provide a bias between the layers, in order to produce an energy gap. If the gates on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 D. R. da Costa , A. Chaves , S. H. R. Sena , G. A. Farias , F. M. Peeters

We study theoretically the electron current across a monolayer graphene/hexagonal boron nitride/bilayer graphene tunnelling junction in an external magnetic field perpendicular to the layers. We show that change in effective tunnelling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 J. J . P. Thompson , D. J. Leech , M. Mucha-Kruczyński

We study the electronic transport properties at the intersection of three topological zero-lines as the elementary current partition node that arises in minimally twisted bilayer graphene. Unlike the partition laws of two intersecting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Tao Hou , Yafei Ren , Yujie Quan , Jeil Jung , Wei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao

We report on multiterminal measurements in a ballistic bilayer graphene (BLG) channel where multiple spin and valley-degenerate quantum point contacts (QPCs) are defined by electrostatic gating. By patterning QPCs of different shapes and…

Modulation of electronic states in two-dimensional (2D) materials can be achieved by using in-plane variations of the band gap or the average potential in lateral quantum structures. In the atomic configurations with hexagonal symmetry,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Feng-Wu Chen , Mei-Yin Chou , Yiing-Rei Chen , Yu-Shu Wu

Compared to monolayer graphene, electrons in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) have an additional layer degree of freedom, offering a platform for developing {\it layered spintronics} with the help of proximity-induced magnetism. Based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Xuechao Zhai , Yaroslav M. Blanter

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) substrate can exhibit an anomalous Hall effect at 3/4 filling due to the spontaneous valley polarization in valley resolved moir\'e bands with opposite Chern number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Xuzhe Ying , Mengxing Ye , Leon Balents

We propose a device for the generation of valley polarized electronic current in bilayer graphene. By analyzing the response of this material to intense terahertz frequency light in the presence of a transverse electric field, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-20 D. S. L. Abergel , Tapash Chakraborty

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

We investigate the electrical transport properties of the mini-valley polarized state proposed recently in slightly doped Bernal Bilayer Graphene (BLG) in large electric displacement fields. By minimizing the Hartree-Fock energy functional,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Yuelin Shao , Xi Dai

We recently shown, using tight-binding calculations, that nonequilibrium valley polarization can be realized in graphene, when the current is injected through "valley filter": a ballistic point contact with zigzag edges. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-23 Adam Rycerz

Valley-polarized currents can be generated by local straining of multi-terminal graphene devices. The pseudo-magnetic field created by the deformation allows electrons from only one valley to transmit and a current of electrons from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 S. P. Milovanovic , F. M. Peeters

Developing alternative paradigms of electronics beyond silicon technology requires the exploration of fundamentally new physical mechanisms, such as the valley specific phenomena in hexagonal two-dimensional materials. We realize ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Jing Li , Rui-Xing Zhang , Zhenxi Yin , Jianxiao Zhang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Chaoxing Liu , Jun Zhu

Graphene has evolved as a platform for quantum transport that can compete with the best and cleanest semiconductor systems. Recently, many interesting local properties of carrier transport in graphene have been investigated by various…

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

The existence of inequivalent valleys K and K' in the momentum space of two-dimensional hexagonal lattices provides a new electronic degree of freedom, the manipulation of which can potentially lead to new types of electronics, in analogy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 J. Li , K. Wang , K. J. McFaul , Z. Zern , Y. F. Ren , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Z. H. Qiao , J. Zhu

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
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