Electrically Tunable Magnetoconductance of Close-Packed CVD Bilayer Graphene Layer Stacking Walls

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that close-packed bilayer graphene stacking walls exhibit electrically tunable magnetoconductance, advancing the understanding of quantum valley Hall channel interactions and their control in scalable graphene-based devices.

Contribution

It reveals how strain sources influence LSW formations and shows electrically tunable magnetoconductance in close-packed LSW bundles, a novel control mechanism.

Findings

Close-packed LSW bundles support tunable magnetoconductance.

Different strain sources lead to distinct LSW configurations.

Electrically tunable magnetoconductance enables programmable quantum transport.

Abstract

Quantum valley Hall (QVH) domain wall states are a new class of one-dimensional (1D) one-way conductors that are topologically protected in the absence of valley mixing. Development beyond a single QVH channel raises important new questions as to how QVH channels in close spatial proximity interact with each other, and how that interaction may be controlled. Scalable epitaxial bilayer graphene synthesis produces layer stacking wall (LSW) bundles, where QVH channels are bound, providing an excellent platform to study QVH channel interactions. Here we show that distinct strain sources lead to the formation of both well-separated LSWs and close packed LSW bundles. Comparative studies of electronic transport in these two regimes reveal that close-packed LSW bundles support electrically tunable magnetoconductance. The coexistence of different strain sources offers a potential pathway to realize scalable quantum transport platform based on LSWs where electrically tunability enables programmable functionality.