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Electrons in graphene follow unconventional trajectories at PN junctions, driven by their pseudospintronic degree of freedom. Significant is the prominent angular dependence of transmission, capturing the chiral nature of the electrons and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Redwan N. Sajjad , S. Sutar , J. U. Lee , Avik W. Ghosh

We investigate quantum transport in a normal/superconductor graphene heterostructure, including the possibility of an anisotropic pairing potential in the superconducting region. We find that under certain circumstances, the conductance…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Linder , A. Sudbø

We study numerically cross conductances in a four-terminal all-graphene setup. We show that far away from the Dirac point current flows along zigzag directions, giving the possibility to guide the current between terminals using a tunable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-01 Kimmo Sääskilahti , Ari Harju , Pirjo Pasanen

We study the transport properties of disordered two-dimensional electron systems with a perfectly conducting channel. We introduce an asymmetric Chalker-Coddington network model and numerically investigate the point-contact conductance. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-27 Koji Kobayashi , Tomi Ohtsuki , Keith Slevin

Within the tight binding approximation, we study the dependence of the electronic band structure and of the optical conductivity of a graphene single layer on the modulus and direction of applied uniaxial strain. While the Dirac cone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-15 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

There is an increasing amount of literature concerning electronic properties of graphene close to the neutrality point. Many experiments continue using the two-probe geometry or invasive contacts or do not control samples' macroscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-27 P. Blake , R. Yang , S. V. Morozov , F. Schedin , L. A. Ponomarenko , A. A. Zhukov , I. V. Grigorieva , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim

Graphene-metal contact resistance is governed by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Intrinsically, both the density of states bottleneck near the Dirac point and carrier reflection at the graphene-metal interface lead to a high contact…

We study the transition from ballistic to diffusive and localized transport in graphene nanoribbons in the presence of binary disorder, which can be generated by chemical adsorbates or substitutional doping. We show that the interplay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-18 Petra Dietl , Georgo Metalidis , Dmitri Golubev , Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada , Henning Schomerus , Gerd Schön

We study the transport properties of Dirac electrons across a two-dimensional normal metal-barrier-normal metal (NBN) interfaces in monolayer borophane. We analyse the transmission probability with variation of the width of the barrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-13 Prasun Das , Sangita De Sarkar , Asim Kumar Ghosh

We will present brief overview on the electronic and transport properties of graphene nanoribbons focusing on the effect of edge shapes and impurity scattering. The low-energy electronic states of graphene have two non-equivalent massless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Yositake Takane , Masayuki Yamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

We develop an Effective Medium Theory to study the electrical transport properties of disordered graphene. The theory includes non-linear screening and exchange-correlation effects allowing us to consider experimentally relevant strengths…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-20 Enrico Rossi , S. Adam , S. Das Sarma

Studies of the structural, electronic, and optical characteristics of the interfaces between graphene and ZnO polar surfaces is carried out using first-principles simulations. At the interface, a strong van der Waals force is present, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-23 H. D. Etea , K. N. Nigussa

A new transport regime of photon in two-dimensional photonic crystal near the Dirac point has been demonstrated by exact numerical simulation. In this regime, the conductance of photon is inversely proportional to the thickness of sample,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiangdong Zhang

We study the transport of charge carriers through finite graphene structures. The use of numerical exact kernel polynomial and Green function techniques allows us to treat actual sized samples beyond the Dirac-cone approximation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 A. Pieper , G. Schubert , G. Wellein , H. Fehske

We study transport in undoped graphene in the presence of a superlattice potential both within a simple continuum model and using numerical tight-binding calculations. The continuum model demonstrates that the conductivity of the system is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-31 P. Burset , A. Levy Yeyati , L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

We investigate the electronic properties of a hybrid system that comprises single-bilayer graphene structures subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field. Specifically, our focus is on the behavior exhibited by the zigzag boundaries of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Nadia Benlakhouy , Ahmed Jellal , Michael Schreiber

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

We investigate thermoelectric transport in monolayer graphene across a finite complex barrier within a Landauer scattering framework. Solving the Dirac-Weyl problem exactly, we show that the imaginary part of the barrier renders the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Daniel A. Bonilla , Juan A. Cañas , J. C. Pérez-Pedraza , A. Martín-Ruiz

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…

We present an investigation of heat transport in gapless graphene-based Ferromagnetic /singlet Superconductor/Ferromagnetic (FG$\mid$SG$\mid$FG) junctions. We find that unlike uniform increase of thermal conductance vs temperature, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-11-01 Morteza Salehi , Mohammad Alidoust , Yousef Rahnavard , Gholamreza Rashedi