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Dynamic wavelength tunability has long been the holy grail of photodetector technology. Because of its atomic thickness and unique properties, graphene opens up new paradigms to realize this concept, but so far this has been elusive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 François Léonard , Catalin D. Spataru , Michael Goldflam , David W. Peters , Thomas E. Beechem

Topologically protected chiral states at a mass-inverted quantum dot in graphene are studied by analyzing both tight-binding and kernal polynomial method calculations. The mass-inverted quantum dot is introduced by considering a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Nojoon Myoung

The multi-component nature of bilayer graphene (BLG), together with the ability to controllably tune between the various ground state orders, makes it a rich system in which to explore interaction driven phenomena. In the fractional quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 J. I. A. Li , C. Tan , S. Chen , Y. Zeng , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , J. Hone , C. R. Dean

We report on multiterminal measurements in a ballistic bilayer graphene (BLG) channel where multiple spin and valley-degenerate quantum point contacts (QPCs) are defined by electrostatic gating. By patterning QPCs of different shapes and…

The ultimate surface exposure provided by graphene monolayer makes it the ideal sensor platform but also exposes its intrinsic properties to any environmental perturbations. In this work, we demonstrate that the charge carrier density of…

The electronic properties of bilayer graphene with a magnetic quantum dot and a magnetic quantum ring are investigated. The eigenenergies and wavefunctions of quasiparticle states are calculated analytically by solving decoupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Daehan Park , Heesang Kim , Nammee Kim

We investigate theoretically the magnetic levels and optical properties of zigzag- and armchair-edged hexagonal graphene quantum dots (GQDs) utilizing the tight-binding method. A new bound edge state at zero energy appears for the zigzag…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Z. Zhang , Kai Chang , F. M. Peeters

Using a tight-binding model along with the mean-field Hubbard method, we investigate the effect of twisting angle on the magnetic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) quantum dots (QDs) with triangular shape and zigzag edges. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 M. Mirzakhani , H. C. Park , F. M. Peeters , D. R. da Costa

We demonstrate here that a chain of Bilayer Graphene Quantum Dots (BLGQDs) can realize topological quantum matter by effectively simulating a spin-1 chain that hosts the Haldane phase within a specific range of parameters. We describe a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Daniel Miravet , Hassan Allami , Marek Korkusinski , Pawel Hawrylak

In the field of condensed matter, graphene plays a central role as an emerging material for nanoelectronics. Nevertheless, graphene is a semimetal, which constitutes a severe limitation for some future applications. Therefore, a lot of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 S. Zhao , J. Lavie , L. Rondin , L. Orcin-Chaix , C. Diederichs , Ph. Roussignol , Y. Chassagneux , C. Voisin , K. Müllen , A. Narita , S. Campidelli , J. S. Lauret

When a gap of tunable size opens at the conic band intersections of graphene, the Berry phase does not vanish abruptly, but progressively decreases as the gap increases. The phase depends on the reciprocal-space path radius, i.e., for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 Andrea Urru , Giulio Cocco , Vincenzo Fiorentini

We study the electronic and magnetic properties of multilayer quantum dots (MQDs) of graphite in the nearest-neighbor approximation of tight-binding model. We calculate the electronic density of states and orbital susceptibility of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-19 Hazem Abdelsalam , Tania Espinosa-Ortega , Igor Lukyanchuk

We present a simple technique to fabricate graphene quantum dots in a cryostat. It relies upon the controlled rupture of a suspended graphene sheet subjected to the application of a large electron current. This results in the in-situ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Joel Moser , Adrian Bachtold

Graphene phonons are measured as a function of electron doping via the addition of potassium adatoms. In the low doping regime, the in-plane carbon G-peak hardens and narrows with increasing doping, analogous to the trend seen in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 C. A. Howard , M. P. M. Dean , F. Withers

We theoretically investigate the spectrum of a single electron double quantum dot, defined by top gates in a graphene with a substrate induced gap. We examine the effects of electric and magnetic fields on the spectrum of localized states,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 Martin Raith , Christian Ertler , Peter Stano , Michael Wimmer , Jaroslav Fabian

We analyze the quantum Hall effect in single layer graphene with bilayer stripe defects. Such defects are often encountered at steps in the substrate of graphene grown on silicon carbide. We show that AB or AA stacked bilayer stripes result…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Tomas Lofwander , Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada

Recent exploration of the commensurate structure in the turbostratic double layer graphene shows that the large angle twisting can be treated by the decrease of the effective velocity within the energy spectra of the single layer graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Jozef Bucko , František Herman

We discuss and compare two different types of confinement in bilayer graphene by top and bottom gating with symmetrical microelectrodes. Trivial confinement corresponds to the same polarity of all top gates, which is opposed to that of all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Nassima Benchtaber , David Sánchez , Llorenç Serra

Evidence of flat-band magnetism and half-metallicity in compressed twisted bilayer graphene is provided with first-principles calculations. We show that dynamic band-structure engineering in twisted bilayer graphene is possible by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-05 Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla

Quantum Hall effect (QHE), the ground to construct modern conceptual electronic systems with emerging physics, is often much influenced by the interplay between the host two-dimensional electron gases and the substrate, sometimes predicted…