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We report a bipolar field effect tunneling transistor that exploits to advantage the low density of states in graphene and its one atomic layer thickness. Our proof-of-concept devices are graphene heterostructures with atomically thin boron…

Graphite is a well-studied material with known electronic and optical properties. Graphene, on the other hand, which is just one layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, has been studied theoretically for quite some time but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Molitor , D. Graf , C. Stampfer , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

This review covers recent experimental progress in probing the electronic properties of graphene and how they are influenced by various substrates, by the presence of a magnetic field and by the proximity to a superconductor. The focus is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-23 Eva Y. Andrei , Guohong Li , Xu Du

The graphene is a native two-dimensional crystal material consisting of a single sheet of carbon atoms. In this unique one-atom-thick material, the electron transport is ballistic and is described by a quantum relativistic-like Dirac…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniela Dragoman , Mircea Dragoman

This article reviews the basic theoretical aspects of graphene, a one atom thick allotrope of carbon, with unusual two-dimensional Dirac-like electronic excitations. The Dirac electrons can be controlled by application of external electric…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-15 A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim

It is shown that a graphene ribbon, a ballistic strip of carbon monolayer, may serve as a quantum wire whose electronic properties can be continuously and reversibly controlled by an externally applied transverse voltage. The electron bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-02 D. S. Novikov

We introduce effective field theories for the electronic properties of graphene in terms of relativistic fermions propagating in 2+1 dimensions, and outline how strong inter-electron interactions may be modelled by numerical simulation of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-09 Simon Hands , Wes Armour , Costas Strouthos

Two-dimensional (2D) materials represented by graphene stand out in future electrical industry and have been widely studied. As a commonly existing factor in electronic devices, the electric field has been extensively utilized to modulate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 E Zhou , Donghai Wei , Jing Wu , Guangzhao Qin , Ming Hu

Phosphorene is a novel two-dimensional material that can be isolated through mechanical exfoliation from layered black phosphorus, but unlike graphene and silicene, monolayer phosphorene has a large band gap. It was thus unsuspected to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-18 Qihang Liu , Xiuwen Zhang , L. B. Abdalla , A. Fazzio , Alex Zunger

We review the basic aspects of electrons in graphene (two-dimensional graphite) exposed to a strong perpendicular magnetic field. One of its most salient features is the relativistic quantum Hall effect the observation of which has been the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-24 M. O. Goerbig

The analysis of the electronic properties of strained or lattice deformed graphene combines ideas from classical condensed matter physics, soft matter, and geometrical aspects of quantum field theory (QFT) in curved spaces. Recent…

Graphene has been attracting great interest because of its distinctive band structure and physical properties. Today, graphene is limited to small sizes because it is produced mostly by exfoliating graphite. We grew large-area graphene…

Graphene is a unique two-dimensional material with rich new physics and great promise for applications in electronic devices. Physical phenomena such as the half-integer quantum Hall effect and high carrier mobility are critically dependent…

Future multi-functional hybrid devices might combine switchable molecules and 2D material-based devices. Spin-crossover compounds are of particular interest in this context since they exhibit bistability and memory effects at room…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 J. Dugay , M. Aarts , M. Giménez-Marqués , T. Kozlova , H. W. Zandbergen , E. Coronado , H. S. J van der Zant

A novel nanoelectronic device is constructed by graphyne that is robustly connected between graphene electrodes, where graphyne is composed of hexagonal carbon rings and carbon chains. Owing to similarities between the bond lengths and unit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-17 Young I. Jhon , Myung S. Jhon

The presence of finite bandgap and high mobility in semiconductor few-layer black phosphorus offers an attractive prospect for using this material in future two-dimensional electronic devices. Here we demonstrate for the first time fully…

The Dirac point and linear band structure in Graphene bestow it with remarkable electronic and optical properties, a subject of intense ongoing research. Explanations of high electronic mobility in graphene, often invoke the masslessness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Chaitanya K. Ullal , Jian Shi , Ravishankar Sundararaman

Since the discovery of graphene -a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice - it was clear that this truly is a unique material system with an unprecedented combination of physical properties. Graphene is the thinnest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-10 S. Russo , M. F. Craciun , T. Khodkov , M. Koshino , M. Yamamoto , S. Tarucha

We report high-quality two-dimensional (2D) electron and hole gases induced at the surface of graphite by the electric field effect. The 2D carriers reside within a few near-surface atomic layers and exhibit mobilities up to 15,000 and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Morozov , K. S. Novoselov , D. Jiang , A. A. Firsov , S. V. Dubonos , A. K. Geim

Devices made from graphene encapsulated in hexagonal boron-nitride exhibit pronounced negative bend resistance and an anomalous Hall effect, which are a direct consequence of room-temperature ballistic transport on a micrometer scale for a…