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Encapsulating graphene in hexagonal Boron Nitride has several advantages: the highest mobilities reported to date are achieved in this way, and precise nanostructuring of graphene becomes feasible through the protective hBN layers.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Yongping Du , Ning Xu , Xianqing Lin , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Interlayer electron transport through a graphene / hexagonal boron-nitride (h-BN) / graphene heterostructure is strongly affected by the misorientation angle $\theta$ of the h-BN with respect to the graphene layers with different physical…

We investigate the electronic properties of heterostructures based on ultrathin hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) crystalline layers sandwiched between two layers of graphene as well as other conducting materials (graphite, gold). The tunnel…

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a natural hyperbolic material which can also accommodate highly dispersive surface phonon-polariton modes. In this paper, we examine theoretically the mid-infrared optical properties of graphene-hBN…

Electron-electron interactions in graphene are sufficiently strong to induce a correlated and momentum-conserving flow such that charge carriers behave similarly to the Hagen-Poiseuille flow of a classical fluid. In the current work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 Wenhao Huang , Tathagata Paul , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Mickael L. Perrin , Michel Calame

Integrating high-mobility graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) into spin transport devices is one of the key tasks in graphene spintronics. We use a van der Waals pickup technique to transfer CVD graphene by hexagonal boron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Marc Drögeler , Luca Banszerus , Frank Volmer , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Bernd Beschoten , Christoph Stampfer

We consider hydrodynamic electron transport in the Hall-bar geometry. The theory is developed for systems with non-Galilean-invariant electron liquids. We show that inhomogeneity of the electron density induced by long-range disorder and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Songci Li , A. V. Andreev , Alex Levchenko

We report a double-layer electronic system made of two closely-spaced but electrically isolated graphene monolayers sandwiched in boron nitride. For large carrier densities in one of the layers, the adjacent layer no longer exhibits a…

Electronic devices using epitaxial graphene on Silicon Carbide require encapsulation to avoid uncontrolled doping by impurities deposited in ambient conditions. Additionally, interaction of the graphene monolayer with the substrate causes…

We investigate charge and energy transport in monolayer graphene with smooth finite-range disorder, modeled by soft impurity potentials. Using a continuum Dirac model, we go beyond the Born approximation by computing the exact scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Juan A. Cañas , Daniel A. Bonilla , J. C. Pérez-Pedraza , A. Martín-Ruiz

The electronic properties of two-dimensional materials such as graphene are extremely sensitive to their environment, especially the underlying substrate. Planar van der Waals bonded substrates such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have…

We present an ab-initio study of electron mobility and electron-phonon coupling in chemically modified graphene, considering fluorinated and hydrogenated graphene at different percentage coverage. Hexagonal Boron Carbon Nitrogen (h-BCN) is…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-02 Samantha Bruzzone , Gianluca Fiori

Van der Waals (vdW) assembly of two-dimensional materials has been long recognized as a powerful tool to create unique systems with properties that cannot be found in natural compounds. However, among the variety of vdW heterostructures and…

The recently observed unconventional ferroelectricity in AB bilayer graphene sandwiched by hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) presents a new platform to manipulate correlated phases in multilayered van der Waals heterostructures. We present a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Ziyan Zhu , Stephen Carr , Qiong Ma , Efthimios Kaxiras

Neuromorphic computing has emphasized the need for memristors with non-volatile, multiple conductance levels. This paper demonstrates the potential of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)/graphene heterostructures to act as memristors with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Harsimran Kaur Mann , Mainak Mondal , Vivek Sah , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Akshay Singh , Aveek Bid

We develop the theory of hydrodynamic electron transport in a long-range disorder potential for conductors in which the underlying electron liquid lacks Galilean invariance. For weak disorder, we express the transport coefficients of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Songci Li , Alex Levchenko , A. V. Andreev

Hexagonal boron nitride (BN), one of the very few layered insulators, plays a crucial role in 2D materials research. In particular, BN grown with a high pressure technique has proven to be an excellent substrate material for graphene and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 J. Sonntag , J. Li , A. Plaud , A. Loiseau , J. Barjon , J. H. Edgar , C. Stampfer

Hydrodynamic electron transport arises when carrier kinetics are dominated by interelectron collisions rather than the relaxation of momentum out of the electron system. In recent years, signatures of electron hydrodynamics have been…

Hot electron effects in graphene are significant because of graphene's small electronic heat capacity and weak electron-phonon coupling, yet the dynamics and cooling mechanisms of hot electrons in graphene are not completely understood. We…

Boron nitride is a promising material for nanotechnology applications due to its two-dimensional graphene-like, insulating, and highly-resistant structure. Recently it has received a lot of attention as a substrate to grow and isolate…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-25 Claudio Attaccalite , Ludger Wirtz , Andrea Marini , Angel Rubio