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cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 100 cited

Edge currents shunt the insulating bulk in gapped graphene

M. J. Zhu, A. V. Kretinin, M. D. Thompson +13

An energy gap can be opened in the electronic spectrum of graphene by lifting its sublattice symmetry. In bilayers, it is possible to open gaps as large as 0.2 eV. However, these g…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 9 cited

Interplay of the inverse proximity effect and magnetic field in out-of-equilibrium single-electron devices

Shuji Nakamura, Yuri A. Pashkin, Mathieu Taupin +11

The magnetic field is shown to affect significantly non-equilibrium quasiparticle (QP) distributions under conditions of inverse proximity effect on the remarkable example of a sin…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 27 cited

Polariton pattern formation and photon statistics of the associated emission

C. E. Whittaker, B. Dzurnak, O. A. Egorov +8

We report on the formation of a diverse family of transverse spatial polygon patterns in a microcavity polariton fluid under coherent driving by a blue-detuned pump. Patterns emerg…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 50 cited

Cross-plane enhanced thermoelectricity and phonon suppression in graphene/MoS2 van der Waals heterostructures

Hatef Sadeghi, Sara Sangtarash, Colin J. Lambert

The thermoelectric figures of merit of pristine two-dimensional materials are predicted to be significantly less than unity, making them uncompetitive as thermoelectric materials.…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 31 cited

On-chip magnetic cooling of a nanoelectronic device

D. I. Bradley, A. M. Guénault, D. Gunnarsson +8

We demonstrate significant cooling of electrons in a nanostructure below 10 mK by demagnetisation of thin-film copper on a silicon chip. Our approach overcomes the typical bottlene…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 103 cited

Sonic Landau-level lasing and synthetic gauge fields in mechanical metamaterials

Hamed Abbaszadeh, Anton Souslov, Jayson Paulose +2

Mechanical strain can lead to a synthetic gauge field that controls the dynamics of electrons in graphene sheets as well as light in photonic crystals. Here, we show how to enginee…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 85 cited

Quantum Interference in Graphene Nanoconstrictions

Pascal Gehring, Hatef Sadeghi, Sara Sangtarash +7

We report quantum interference effects in the electrical conductance of chemical vapor deposited graphene nanoconstrictions fabricated using feedback controlled electroburning. The…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 4 cited

Effect of interactions on quantum-limited detectors

Gleb Skorobagatko, Anton Bruch, Silvia Viola Kusminskiy +1

We consider the effect of electron-electron interactions on a voltage biased quantum point contact in the tunneling regime used as a detector of a nearby qubit. We model the leads…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 30 cited

Magnetic ratchet effect in bilayer graphene

Narjes Kheirabadi, Edward McCann, Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We consider the orbital effect of an in-plane magnetic field on electrons in bilayer graphene, deriving linear-in-field contributions to the low-energy Hamiltonian arising from the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 26 cited

Scaling approach to tight-binding transport in realistic graphene devices: the case of transverse magnetic focusing

M. Beconcini, S. Valentini, R. Krishna Kumar +5

Ultra-clean graphene sheets encapsulated between hexagonal boron nitride crystals host two-dimensional electron systems in which low-temperature transport is solely limited by the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 44 cited

Asymmetry-induced resistive switching in Ag-AgS-Ag memristors enabling a simplified atomic-scale memory design

A. Gubicza, D. Zs. Manrique, L. Pósa +4

Prevailing models of resistive switching arising from electrochemical formation of conducting filaments across solid state ionic conductors commonly attribute the observed polarity…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 10 cited

Zero-energy modes and valley asymmetry in the Hofstadter spectrum of bilayer graphene van der Waals heterostructures with hBN

Xi Chen, J. R. Wallbank, M. Mucha-Kruczynski +2

We investigate the magnetic minibands of a heterostructure consisting of bilayer graphene (BLG) and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) by numerically diagonalizing a two-band Hamiltonia…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 67 cited

Exploring quantum interference in heteroatom-substituted graphene-like molecules

Sara Sangtarash, Hatef Sadeghi, Colin J. Lambert

If design principles for controlling quantum interference in single molecules could be elucidated and verified, then this will lay the foundations for exploiting such effects in na…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 13 cited

Precursor configurations and post-rupture evolution of Ag-CO-Ag single-molecule junctions

Zoltán Balogh, Dávid Visontai, Péter Makk +5

Experimental correlation analysis and first-principles theory are used to probe the structure and evolution of Ag-CO-Ag single-molecule junctions, both before the formation, and af…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

Gating of single molecule junction conductance by charge transfer complex formation

Andrea Vezzoli, Iain Grace, Carly Brooke +5

The solid-state structures of organic charge transfer (CT) salts are critical in determining their mode of charge transport, and hence their unusual electrical properties, which ra…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

Sensing Single Molecules with Carbon-Boron-Nitride Nanotubes

Laith Algharagholy, Thomas Pope, Qusiy Al-Galiby +3

We investigate the molecular sensing properties of carbon nanotube-boron nitride-carbon nanotube (CNT-BN-CNT) junctions. We demonstrate that the electrical conductance of such a ju…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 1 cited

Conductance enlargement in pico-scale electro-burnt graphene nanojunctions

Hatef Sadeghi, Jan Mol, Chit Lau +3

Provided the electrical properties of electro-burnt graphene junctions can be understood and controlled, they have the potential to underpin the development of a wide range of futu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

Negative differential electrical resistance of a rotational organic nanomotor

Hatef Sadeghi, Sara Sangtarash, Qusiy Al-Galiby +3

A robust nanoelectromechanical switch is proposed based upon an asymmetric pendant moiety anchored to an organic backbone between two C60 fullerenes, which in turn are connected to…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 162 cited

Molecular design and control of fullerene-based bi-thermoelectric materials

Laura Rincón-García, Ali K. Ismael, Charalambos Evangeli +5

Molecular junctions are a versatile test bed for investigating thermoelectricity on the nanoscale1-10 and contribute to the design of new cost-effective environmentally-friendly or…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 37 cited

Quasiparticle and excitonic gaps of one-dimensional carbon chains

E. Mostaani, B. Monserrat, N. D. Drummond +1

We report diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) calculations of the quasiparticle and excitonic gaps of hydrogen-terminated oligoynes and polyyne. The electronic gaps are found to be…