We report on Coulomb blockade and Coulomb diamond measurements on an etched, tunable single-layer graphene quantum dot. The device consisting of a graphene island connected via two narrow graphene constrictions is fully tunable by three lateral graphene gates. Coulomb blockade resonances are observed and from Coulomb diamond measurements, a charging energy of is extracted. For increasing temperatures, we detect a peak broadening and a transmission increase of the nanostructured graphene barriers.
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