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Transport through a strongly coupled graphene quantum dot in perpendicular magnetic field

We present transport measurements on a strongly coupled graphene quantum dot in a perpendicular magnetic field. The device consists of an etched single-layer graphene flake with two narrow constrictions separating a 140 nm diameter island from source and drain graphene contacts. Lateral graphene gat...

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Autores principales: Güttinger, Johannes, Stampfer, Christoph, Frey, Tobias, Ihn, Thomas, Ensslin, Klaus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3211315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21711781
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1556-276X-6-253
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author Güttinger, Johannes
Stampfer, Christoph
Frey, Tobias
Ihn, Thomas
Ensslin, Klaus
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description We present transport measurements on a strongly coupled graphene quantum dot in a perpendicular magnetic field. The device consists of an etched single-layer graphene flake with two narrow constrictions separating a 140 nm diameter island from source and drain graphene contacts. Lateral graphene gates are used to electrostatically tune the device. Measurements of Coulomb resonances, including constriction resonances and Coulomb diamonds prove the functionality of the graphene quantum dot with a charging energy of approximately 4.5 meV. We show the evolution of Coulomb resonances as a function of perpendicular magnetic field, which provides indications of the formation of the graphene specific 0th Landau level. Finally, we demonstrate that the complex pattern superimposing the quantum dot energy spectra is due to the formation of additional localized states with increasing magnetic field.
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spelling pubmed-32113152011-11-09 Transport through a strongly coupled graphene quantum dot in perpendicular magnetic field Güttinger, Johannes Stampfer, Christoph Frey, Tobias Ihn, Thomas Ensslin, Klaus Nanoscale Res Lett Nano Express We present transport measurements on a strongly coupled graphene quantum dot in a perpendicular magnetic field. The device consists of an etched single-layer graphene flake with two narrow constrictions separating a 140 nm diameter island from source and drain graphene contacts. Lateral graphene gates are used to electrostatically tune the device. Measurements of Coulomb resonances, including constriction resonances and Coulomb diamonds prove the functionality of the graphene quantum dot with a charging energy of approximately 4.5 meV. We show the evolution of Coulomb resonances as a function of perpendicular magnetic field, which provides indications of the formation of the graphene specific 0th Landau level. Finally, we demonstrate that the complex pattern superimposing the quantum dot energy spectra is due to the formation of additional localized states with increasing magnetic field. Springer 2011-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3211315/ /pubmed/21711781 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1556-276X-6-253 Text en Copyright ©2011 Güttinger et al; licensee Springer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Transport through a strongly coupled graphene quantum dot in perpendicular magnetic field
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3211315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21711781
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1556-276X-6-253
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