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Electrostatic gating offers elegant ways to simultaneously strain and dope atomically thin membranes. Here, we report on a detailed \textit{in situ} Raman scattering study on graphene, suspended over a Si/SiO$_2$ substrate. In such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-30 Dominik Metten , Guillaume Froehlicher , Stéphane Berciaud

In a recent experiment [Lin et al., arXiv:2112.07841], the superconducting phase hosted by a heterostructure of mirror-symmetric twisted trilayer graphene and WSe$_2$ was shown to exhibit significantly different critical currents in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-25 Harley D. Scammell , J. I. A. Li , Mathias S. Scheurer

In spintronics, the ability to transport magnetic information often depends on the existence of a spin current traveling between two different magnetic objects acting as source and probe. A large fraction of this information never reaches…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 F. S. M. Guimarães , A. T. Costa , R. B. Muniz , M. S. Ferreira

The critical current of a superconductor can be different for opposite directions of current flow when both time-reversal and inversion symmetry are broken. %When time-reversal and inversion symmetry are simultaneously broken, the critical…

A spin field effect transistor (FET) is proposed by utilizing a graphene nanoribbon as the channel. Similar to the conventional spin FETs, the device involves ferromagnetic metals as a source and drain; they, in turn, are connected to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-07-23 Y. G. Semenov , K. W. Kim , J. M. Zavada

To realize nanomechanical graphene-based pressure and gas sensors, it is beneficial to have a method to electrically readout the static displacement of a suspended graphene membrane. Capacitive readout, typical in micro-electro-mechanical…

A graphene sheet biased with a drift electric current offers a tantalizing opportunity to attain unidirectional, backscattering-immune, and subwavelength light propagation, as proposed in [T. A. Morgado, M. G. Silveirinha, ACS Photonics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Tiago A. Morgado , Mário G. Silveirinha

Graphene electrodes provide a suitable alternative to metal contacts in molecular conduction nanojunctions. Here, we propose to use graphene electrodes as a platform for effective photon assisted tunneling through molecular conduction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Boris Fainberg

Usually, graphene is used in its horizontal directions to design novel concept devices. Here, we report a single electron tunneling diode based on quantum tunneling through a vertical graphene two-barrier junction. The junction is formed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Rui Xu , Ke-Ke Bai , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

Monolayer graphene with an energy gap presents a pseudospin symmetry broken ferromagnet with a perpendicular pseudomagnetization whose direction is switched by altering the type of doping between n and p. We demonstrate an electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Leyla Majidi , Malek Zareyan

Current flow in electronic devices can be asymmetric with bias direction, a phenomenon underlying the utility of diodes and known as non-reciprocal charge transport. The promise of dissipationless electronics has recently stimulated the…

Few-layer graphene deposited on semiconductor nanorods separated by undoped spacers has been studied in perspective for the fabrication of stable nanoresonators. We show that an applied bias between the graphene layer and the nanorod…

A thermal diode based on the asymmetric radiative heat transfer between nanoparticles assisted by the nonreciprocal graphene plasmons waveguides is proposed in this work. The thermal diode system consists of two particles and a drift-biased…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Yong Zhang , Cheng-Long Zhou , Hong-Liang Yi , He-Ping Tan

Recent experiments reveal that a scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) probe tip can generate a highly localized strain field in a graphene drumhead, which in turn leads to pseudomagnetic fields in the graphene that can spatially confine…

A recently reported transition in the electrical resistance of different natural graphite samples suggests the existence of superconductivity at room temperature. To check whether dissipationless electrical currents are responsible for the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-30 Markus Stiller , Pablo D. Esquinazi , Christian E. Precker , José Barzola-Quiquia

Graphene is a relatively new material (2004) made of atomic layers of carbon arranged in a honeycomb lattice. Josephson junction devices are made from graphene by depositing two parallel superconducting leads on a graphene flake. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Joseph G. Lambert , Steven Carabello , Roberto C. Ramos

Usually the magnetochiral anisotropy related Josephson diode effect is assumed to be based on conventional two-dimensional electron gas, such as the InAs quantum well. Here we propose a graphene-based Josephson junction as a broadly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-06 Chuan-Shuai Huang

We find clear signatures of spin-dependent negative differential resistance in compound systems comprising a graphene nanoribbon and a set of ferromagnetic insulator strips deposited on top of it. The periodic array of ferromagnetic strips…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 J. Munárriz , C. Gaul , A. V. Malyshev , P. A. Orellana , C. A. Müller , F. Domínguez-Adame

Experiments have confirmed that double monolayer graphene cannot generate finite temperature electron-hole superfluidity. This has been shown to be due to very strong screening of the electron-hole pairing attraction. The linear dispersing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-12-17 Luca Dell'Anna , Andrea Perali , Lucian Covaci , David Neilson

Graphene revealed a number of unique properties beneficial for electronics. However, graphene does not have an energy band-gap, which presents a serious hurdle for its applications in digital logic gates. The efforts to induce a band-gap in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Guanxiong Liu , Sonia Ahsan , Alexander G. Khitun , Roger K. Lake , Alexander A. Balandin