Spatially resolved edge currents and guided-wave electronic states in graphene

Nature Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 128-133

  Allen, M T ^a   Shtanko, O ^b   Fulga, I C ^c   Akhmerov, A R ^d   Watanabe, K ^e   Taniguchi, T ^e   Jarillo Herrero, P ^b   Levitov, L S ^b   Yacoby, A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL FIBERS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

CHARGE NEUTRALITY; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; ELECTRONIC WAVES; GRAND CHALLENGE; JOSEPHSON-JUNCTION; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; SUBMICRON SCALE;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84956750063     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys3534     Document Type: Article

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