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Monitoring electronic properties of 2D materials is an essential step to open a way for applications such as electronic devices and sensors. From this perspective, Bernal bilayer graphene (BLG) is a fairly simple system that offers great…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 Jouda Jemaa Khabthani , Ahmed Missaoui , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

Graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) moir\'e superlattices have attracted interest for use in the study of many-body effects and fractal physics in Dirac fermion systems. Many exotic transport properties have been intensively examined in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Takuya Iwasaki , Shu Nakaharai , Yutaka Wakayama , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Yoshifumi Morita , Satoshi Moriyama

We investigate quantum tunneling of charge carriers through a periodic superlattice in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with rectangular potential barriers, including the presence of a defect, using a low-energy continuum model. Transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Ayoub Bahlaoui , Youness Zahidi , Ahmed Naddami

The electronic properties of junctions defined electrostatically on twisted bilayer graphene can be addressed theoretically using lattice models. Recent works have introduced minimal local orbital models to describe twisted bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 M. Alvarado , A. Levy Yeyati

In this work we present a theoretical study of transport properties of a double crossbar junction composed by segments of graphene ribbons with different widths forming a graphene quantum dot structure. The systems are described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-29 Jhon W. Gonzalez , Monica Pacheco , Luis Rosales , Pedro Orellana

We investigate the electronic properties of a hybrid system that comprises single-bilayer graphene structures subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field. Specifically, our focus is on the behavior exhibited by the zigzag boundaries of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Nadia Benlakhouy , Ahmed Jellal , Michael Schreiber

The transmission properties of armchair graphene nanoribbon junctions between graphene electrodes are investigated by means of first-principles quantum transport calculations. First the dependence of the transmission function on the size of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 C. Motta , D. Sánchez-Portal , M. I. Trioni

We present a comparative study of high carrier density transport in mono-, bi-, and trilayer graphene using electric-double-layer transistors to continuously tune the carrier density up to values exceeding 10^{14} cm^{-2}. Whereas in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 J. T. Ye , M. F. Craciun , M. Koshino , S. Russo , S. Inoue , H. T. Yuan , H. Shimotani , A. F. Morpurgo , Y. Iwasa

In this review article we discuss the recent progress in studying ballistic transport for charge carriers in graphene through highly inhomogenous magnetic field known as magnetic barrier in combination with gate voltage induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-12 Neetu Agrawal , Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

This work deals with the intrinsic and extrinsic properties of the graphene layers inside the graphite structure, in particular the influence of defects and interfaces. We discuss the evidence for ballistic transport found in mesoscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-13 J. Barzola-Quiquia , A. Ballestar , S. Dusari , P. Esquinazi

The electronic transmission and conductance of a gapped graphene superlattice were calculated by means of the transfer-matrix method. The system that we study consists of a sequence of electron-doped graphene as wells and hole-doped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Esmailpour , A. Esmailpour , Reza Asgari , E. Elahi , M. R. Rahimi Tabar

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

Artificial graphene consisting of honeycomb lattices other than the atomic layer of carbon has been shown to exhibit electronic properties similar to real graphene. Here, we reverse the argument to show that transport properties of real…

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene exhibits quasi-flat low-energy bands with Van Hove singularities close to the Fermi level. These singularities play an important role in the exotic phenomena observed in this material, such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Aleksander Sanjuan Ciepielewski , Jakub Tworzydło , Timo Hyart , Alexander Lau

We study charge transport in one-dimensional graphene superlattices created by applying layered periodic and disordered potentials. It is shown that the transport and spectral properties of such structures are strongly anisotropic. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 Yury P. Bliokh , Valentin Freilikher , Sergey Savel'ev , Franco Nori

We investigate transport properties of the junctions in which the graphene nanoribbon with the zigzag shaped edges consisting of the $N$ legs is sandwiched by the two normal metals by means of recursive Green's function method. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yoneko Mochizuki , Hideo Yoshioka

Grain boundaries (GBs) are ubiquitous in polycrystalline graphene materials obtained by various growth methods. It has been shown previously that considerable electrical transport gap can be opened by grain boundaries. On the other hand,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-31 S. Bala Kumar , Jing Guo

Graphene samples can have a very high carrier mobility if influences from the substrate and the environment are minimized. Embedding a graphene sheet into a heterostructure with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on both sides was shown to be a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 Andreas Sandner , Tobias Preis , Christian Schell , Paula Giudici , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Dieter Weiss , Jonathan Eroms

We study the transport properties of Dirac electrons across a two-dimensional normal metal-barrier-normal metal (NBN) interfaces in monolayer borophane. We analyse the transmission probability with variation of the width of the barrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-13 Prasun Das , Sangita De Sarkar , Asim Kumar Ghosh

We use ab initio density functional calculations to determine the interaction of a graphene monolayer with the Si(111) surface. We found that graphene forms strong bonds to the bare substrate and accommodates the 12% lattice mismatch by…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-15 Ceren Tayran , Zhen Zhu , Matteo Baldoni , Daniele Selli , Gotthard Seifert , David Tománek