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Different scattering mechanisms in graphene are explored and conductivity is calculated within the Boltzmann transport theory. We provide results for short-range scattering using the Random Phase Approximation for electron screening, as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-15 Shaffique Adam , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We investigate the contribution of charge puddles to the non-vanishing conductivity minimum in disordered graphene flakes at the charge neutrality point. For that purpose, we study systems with a geometry that suppresses the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 Leandro R. F. Lima , Caio H. Lewenkopf

The ground-state and the transport properties of graphene subject to the potential of in-plane charged impurities are studied. The screening of the impurity potential is shown to be nonlinear, producing a fractal structure of electron and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-02 M. M. Fogler

We discuss various scattering mechanisms for Dirac fermions in single-layer graphene. It is shown that scattering on a short-range potential (due to, for example, neutral impurities) is mostly irrelevant for electronic quality of graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-06 M. I. Katsnelson , A. K. Geim

An efficient computational methodology is used to explore charge transport properties in chemically-modified (and randomly disordered) graphene-based materials. The Hamiltonians of various complex forms of graphene are constructed using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-16 Nicolas Leconte , Aurélien Lherbier , François Varchon , Pablo Ordejon , Stephan Roche , Jean-Christophe Charlier

The conductance of graphene subject to a strong, tilted magnetic field exhibits a dramatic change from insulating to conducting behavior with tilt-angle, regarded as evidence for the transition from a canted antiferromagnetic (CAF) to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-30 Pavel Tikhonov , Efrat Shimshoni , H. A. Fertig , Ganpathy Murthy

The remarkable electrical, optical and mechanical properties of graphene make it a desirable material for electronics, optoelectronics and quantum applications. A fundamental understanding of the electrical conductivity of graphene across a…

Locally-gated single-layer graphene sheets have unusual discrete energy states inside the potential barrier induced by a finite-width gate. These states are localized outside the Dirac cone of continuum states and are responsible for novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-03 V. A. Yampol'skii , S. S. Apostolov , Z. A. Maizelis , Alex Levchenko , Franco Nori

We describe electrical transport in ideal single-layer graphene at zero applied bias. There is a crossover from collisionless transport at frequencies larger than k_B T/hbar (T is the temperature) to collision-dominated transport at lower…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-14 Lars Fritz , Joerg Schmalian , Markus Mueller , Subir Sachdev

We develop a hydrodynamic description of transport properties in graphene-based systems which we derive from the quantum kinetic equation. In the interaction-dominated regime, the collinear scattering singularity in the collision integral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-28 B. N. Narozhny , I. V. Gornyi , M. Titov , M. Schütt , A. D. Mirlin

We calculate the ground-state energy of Dirac electrons in graphene in the presence of disorder. We take randomly distributed charged impurities at a fixed distance from the graphene sheet and surface fluctuations (ripples) as the main…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Asgari , M. M. Vazifeh , M. R. Ramezanali , E. Davoudi , B. Tanatar

We present electron transport measurements on lithographically defined and etched graphene nanoconstrictions with different aspect ratios including different lengths (L) and widths (W). A roughly length-independent disorder induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-13 B. Terrés , J. Dauber , C. Volk , S. Trellenkamp , U. Wichmann , C. Stampfer

The role of defect-induced zero-energy modes on charge transport in graphene is investigated using Kubo and Landauer transport calculations. By tuning the density of random distributions of monovacancies either equally populating the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-13 Alessandro Cresti , Frank Ortmann , Thibaud Louvet , Dinh Van Tuan , Stephan Roche

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…

We have studied the transport properties of a large graphene double quantum dot under the influence of background disorder potential and magnetic field. At low temperatures, the evolution of the charge-stability diagram as a function of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 K. L. Chiu , M. R. Connolly , A. Cresti , J. P. Griffiths , G. A. C. Jones , C. G. Smith

We study quasi-particle transmission through an $n $-$p$ junction in a graphene irradiated by an electromagnetic field (EF). In the absence of EF the electronic spectrum of undoped graphene is gapless, and one may expect the perfect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. V. Fistul , K. B. Efetov

We propose a unified description of transport in graphene with adsorbates that fully takes into account localization effects and loss of electronic coherence due to inelastic processes. We focus in particular on the role of the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-28 Guy Trambly De Laissardière , Didier Mayou

We simulate electron transport through graphene nanoribbons of experimentally realizable size (length L up to 2 micrometer, width W approximately 40 nm) in the presence of scattering at rough edges. Our numerical approach is based on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 F. Libisch , S. Rotter , J. Burgdörfer

We present a detailed study of the high-current transport properties of graphene devices patterned in a four-point configuration. The current tends to saturate as the voltage across graphene is increased but never reaches the complete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Amelia Barreiro , Michele Lazzeri , Joel Moser , Francesco Mauri , Adrian Bachtold

Using the semi-classical Boltzmann theory, we calculate the conductivity as function of the carrier density. As usually, we include the scattering from charged impurities, but conclude that the estimated impurity density is too low in order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Stauber , N. M. R. Peres , F. Guinea