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We theoretically study transport properties of voltage-biased one-dimensional superconductor--normal metal--superconductor tunnel junctions with arbitrary junction transparency where the superconductors can have trivial or nontrivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 F. Setiawan , William S. Cole , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

Over the past few years, there has been a growing interest in layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2). Most studies so far have focused on the electronic and optoelectronic properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-03 Morteza Kayyalha , Jesse Maassen , Mark Lundstrom , Li Shi , Yong P. Chen

Using the closed-time path integral approach, we nonperturbatively study inelastic tunneling of electrons via magnetic impurities in the barrier accompanied by phonon emission in a magnetic tunnel junction. The spectrum density of phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing , D. N. Sheng

CO adsorption on an Au monatomic chain is studied within density functional theory in nanocontact geometries as a function of the contact stretching. We compare the bridge and atop adsorption sites of CO, finding that the bridge site is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-23 Gabriele Sclauzero , Andrea Dal Corso , Alexander Smogunov

By utilizing the current transients in scanning tunneling spectroscopy, the local interfacial electronics between multiwalled carbon nanotubes and several supporting substrates has been investigated. Voltage offsets in the tunneling spectra…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Czerw , B. Foley , D. Tekleab , A. Rubio , P. M. Ajayan , D. L. Carroll

Three-dimensional topological insulators are characterized by the presence of a bandgap in their bulk and gapless Dirac fermions at their surfaces. New physical phenomena originating from the presence of the Dirac fermions are predicted to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-12 B. Sacepe , J. B. Oostinga , J. Li , A. Ubaldini , N. J. G. Couto , E. Giannini , A. F. Morpurgo

We theoretically study transport in two-dimensional semimetals. Typically, electron and hole puddles emerge in the transport layer of these systems due to smooth fluctuations in the potential. We calculate the electric response of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-29 Michael Knap , Jay D. Sau , Bertrand I. Halperin , Eugene Demler

The electric transport properties of superconducting FeSe0.3Te0.7/Au c-axis (S/N) junctions, fabricated by using Pulsed Laser Deposition technique, have been investigated in the temperature range of 2 K to the superconducting transition…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-15 Y. T. Shen , Y. S. Li , K. C. Lin , M. K. Wu , C. C. Chi

We investigated the effect due to perpendicular magnetic field on quantum wires where spin-orbit interaction (SOI) of electrons is not neglected. Based on the calculated energy dispersion, the nonlinear ballistic conductance ($G$) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Godfrey Gumbs , Antonios Balassis , Danhong Huang , Sheehan Ahmed , Ryan Brennan

We study the channel width scaling of back-gated MoS2 metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) from 2 {\mu}m down to 60 nm. We reveal that the channel conductance scales linearly with channel width, indicating no evident…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-13 Han Liu , Jiangjiang Gu , Peide Ye

We study the complete tunneling spectroscopy of a normal metal/$p$-wave superconductor junction ($N-pS$) and normal metal/heterostructure superconductor junction ($N-hS$) by Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwijk (BTK) method. We find that, for $p$-wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-05 Zhongbo Yan , Shaolong Wan

Electric transport in semiconductor superlattices is dominated by pronounced negative differential conductivity. In this report the standard transport theories for superlattices, i.e. miniband conduction, Wannier-Stark-hopping, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andreas Wacker

We investigate the phenomenon of reflectionless tunneling in ballistic normal-metal--superconductor (NS) structures, using a semiclassical formalism. It is shown that applied magnetic field and superconducting phase difference both impair…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Schechter , Y. Imry , Y. Levinson

To ensure the practical application of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides, it is essential to characterize their structural stability under external stimuli such as electric fields and currents. Using vacancy monolayer islands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Husong Zheng , Salvador Valtierra , Nana Ofori-Opoku , Chuanhui Chen , Lifei Sun , Liying Jiao , Kirk H. Bevan , Chenggang Tao

We have studied low-temperature single electron transport through ultra-small Si quantum dots. We find that at low temperatures Coulomb blockade is partially lifted at certain gate voltages. Furthermore, we observed an enhancement of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. P. Rokhinson , L. J. Guo , S. Y. Chou , D. C. Tsui

Progress in the emergent field of topological superconductivity relies on synthesis of new material combinations, combining superconductivity, low density, and spin-orbit coupling (SOC). For example, theory [1-4] indicates that the…

An approach is developed for the determination of the current flowing through a nanosize silicon-on-insulator (SOI) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFET). The quantum mechanical features of the electron transport are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. D. Croitoru , V. N. Gladilin , V. M. Fomin , J. T. Devreese , W. Magnus , W. Schoenmaker , B. Soree

We calculate the current and electrostatic potential drop in metallic carbon nanotube wires self-consistently, by solving the Green's function and electrostatics equations in the ballistic case. About one tenth of the applied voltage drops…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Svizhenko , M. P. Anantram , T. R. Govindan

We report low-temperature transport experiments on single-wall nanotubes with metallic leads of varying contact quality, ranging from weak tunneling to almost perfect transmission. In the weak tunneling regime, where Coulomb blockade…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jesper Nygard , David H. Cobden

We report an anomalous tunneling conductance with a zero bias peak in flakes of superconducting 2H-TaS$_2$ detached through mechanical exfoliation. To explain the observed phenomenon, we construct a minimal model for a single unit cell…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-06-25 J. A. Galvis , L. Chirolli , I. Guillamon , S. Vieira , E. Navarro-Moratalla , E. Coronado , H. Suderow , F. Guinea