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The electronic transport properties of graphene-based superlattice structures are investigated. A graphene-based modulation-doped superlattice structure geometry is proposed and consist of periodically arranged alternate layers:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 Dima Bolmatov , Chung-Yu Mou

Using the theory of diffusion in graphs, we propose a model to study mesoscopic transport through a diffusive quantum dot. The graph consists of three quasi-1D regions: a central region describing the dot, and two identical left- and right-…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-03 Maximilian Treiber , Oleg Yevtushenko , Jan von Delft

We report first principles investigations of the nonequilibrium transport properties of a Cu(111)|graphene interface. The Cu(111) electrode is found to induce a transmission minimum (TM) located -0.68eV below the Fermi level, a feature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-08 Jesse Maassen , Wei Ji , Hong Guo

Guiding electronic waves in a manner similar to photon transmission in optical fibers is key for developing the electron-optics toolbox. Here we outline a `weak guiding' approach, in which efficient diffraction around disorder results in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Kamphol Akkaravarawong , Oles Shtanko , Leonid Levitov

A scalable tight-binding model is applied for large-scale quantum transport calculations in clean graphene subject to electrostatic superlattice potentials, including two types of graphene superlattices: moir\'e patterns due to the stacking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Szu-Chao Chen , Rainer Kraft , Romain Danneau , Klaus Richter , Ming-Hao Liu

The problem of electrostatic screening of a charged line by undoped or weakly doped graphene is treated beyond the linear-response theory. The induced electron density is found to be approximately doping independent, n(x)~(log x)^2/x^2, at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Bor-Yuan Jiang , Michael M. Fogler

The single-band current-dipole Kubo formula for the dynamical conductivity of heavily doped graphene from Kup\v{c}i\'{c} [Phys. Rev. B 91, 205428 (2015)] is extended to a two-band model for conduction $\pi$ electrons in lightly doped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-25 I. Kupčić , G. Nikšić , Z. Rukelj , D. Pelc

The electronic and transport properties of aluminum-graphene composite materials were investigated using ab initio plane wave density functional theory. The interfacial structure is reported for several configurations. In some cases, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-12 K. Nepal , C. Ugwumadu , K. N. Subedi , K. Kappagantula , D. A. Drabold

Two-dimensional Dirac fermions are used to discuss quasiparticles in graphene in the presence of impurity scattering. Transport properties are completely dominated by diffusion. This may explain why recent experiments did not find weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Klaus Ziegler

Hybrid graphene-superconductor devices have attracted much attention since the early days of graphene research. So far, these studies have been limited to the case of diffusive transport through graphene with poorly defined and modest…

Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have emerged as promising candidates for nanoelectronic applications due to their widely tunable energy band gaps resulting from lateral quantum confinement and edge effects. Here we report on…

The study explores perpendicular transport through macroscopically inhomogeneous three-dimensional disordered conductors using mesoscopic methods (real-space Green function technique in a two-probe measuring geometry). The nanoscale samples…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Branislav K. Nikolic

We investigate the electronic transport properties of copper-graphene composites using a density-functional framework. Conduction in composites by varying the interface distance of a copper/graphene/copper (Cu/G/Cu) interface models was…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-01 K. N. Subedi , K. Nepal , C. Ugwumadu , K. Kappagantula , D. A. Drabold

In this article, we propose a new numerical model for computation of the transport of electrons in a graphene device. The underlying quantum model for graphene is a massless Dirac equation, whose eigenvalues display a conical singularity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Clotilde Fermanian Kammerer , Florian Méhats

Disordered Fermi-Dirac distributions are used to model, within a straightforward and essentially phenomenological Boltzmann equation approach, the electron/hole transport across graphene puddles. We establish, with striking experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 L. Moriconi , D. Niemeyer

We investigate magnetic, charge and transport properties of hexagonal graphene nanoflakes (GNFs) connected to two metallic leads by using the functional renormalization group (fRG) method. The interplay between the on-site and long-range…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-30 V. S. Protsenko , A. A. Katanin

We examine quantum transport in periodic quantum graphs with a vertex coupling non-invariant with respect to time reversal. It is shown that the graph topology may play a decisive role in the conductivity properties illustrating this claim…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Pavel Exner , Jiri Lipovsky

We study the effect of Coulomb interaction between charge carriers on the properties of graphene monolayer, assuming that the strength of the interaction is controlled by the dielectric permittivity of the substrate on which the graphene…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-14 P. V. Buividovich , M. I. Polikarpov

Defects play a key role in the electronic structure of graphene layers flat or curved. Topological defects in which an hexagon is replaced by an n-sided polygon generate long range interactions that make them different from vacancies or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 Alberto Cortijo , María A. H. Vozmediano

We investigate the conductivity of doped graphene in the semiclassical Boltzmann limit, as well as the conductivity minimum within the self-consistent transport theory. Using the hard-disk model for a two-dimensional distribution of…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-21 Rastko Aničić , Zoran L. Mišković