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The electric-field effect on the electronic and magnetic properties of triangular and hexagonal graphene quantum rings with zigzag edge termination is investigated by means of the single-band tight-binding Hamiltonian and the mean-field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-29 R. Farghadan , A. Saffarzadeh

This article reviews the basic theoretical aspects of graphene, a one atom thick allotrope of carbon, with unusual two-dimensional Dirac-like electronic excitations. The Dirac electrons can be controlled by application of external electric…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-15 A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim

Bilayer graphene is a highly tunable material: not only can one tune the Fermi energy using standard gates, as in single-layer graphene, but the band structure can also be modified by external perturbations such as transverse electric…

Van Hove singularities enhance many-body interactions and induce collective states of matter ranging from superconductivity to magnetism. In magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, van Hove singularities appear at low energies and are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Suvronil Datta , Saisab Bhowmik , Harsh Varshney , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Amit Agarwal , U. Chandni

It is well-known that ferromagnetism can be realized along the zigzag graphene nanoribbon edges, but the armchair graphene nanoribbon edges (AGNEs) are nonmagnetic. Here, we achieve Heisenberg antiferromagnetic spin chains through edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Ning Wu , Bang-Gui Liu

Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have emerged as promising candidates for nanoelectronic applications due to their widely tunable energy band gaps resulting from lateral quantum confinement and edge effects. Here we report on…

We theoretically show that buckled two-dimensional graphene-like materials (silicene and germanene) subjected to a femtosecond strong optical pulse can be controlled by the optical field component normal to their plane. In such strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-02 Hamed Koochaki Kelardeh , Vadym Apalkov , Mark I. Stockman

Experiments are finally revealing intricate facts about graphene which go beyond the ideal picture of relativistic Dirac fermions in pristine two dimensional (2D) space, two years after its first isolation. While observations of rippling…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Eun-Ah Kim , A. H. Castro Neto

We study the effect of vertical electric field (E-field) on the electronic properties of multilayer graphene. We show that the effective mass, electron velocity and density-of-state of a bilayer graphene are modified under the E-field. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-29 S. Bala kumar , Jing Guo

Electronic analogue of generalized Goos-H\"{a}nchen shifts is investigated in the monolayer graphene superlattice with one-dimensional periodic potentials of square barriers. It is found that the lateral shifts for the electron beam…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Xi Chen , Pei-Liang Zhao , Xiao-Jing Lu , Li-Gang Wang

Graphene has raised high expectations as a low-loss plasmonic material in which the plasmon properties can be controlled via electrostatic doping. Here, we analyze realistic configurations, which produce inhomogeneous doping, in contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sukosin Thongrattanasiri , Iván Silveiro , F. Javier García de Abajo

The size-dependent electrical resistivity of single-layer graphene ribbons has been studied experimentally for ribbon widths from 16 nm to 320 nm. The experimental findings are that the resistivity follows a more dramatic trend than that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-24 Zhuocong Xiao , Colm Durkan

Graphene consists in a single-layer carbon crystal where 2$p_z$ electrons display a linear dispersion relation in the vicinity of the Fermi level, conveniently described by a massless Dirac equation in $2+1$ spacetime. Spin-orbit effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 B. Berche , F. Mireles , E. Medina

A systematic study of the electronic properties of single layer Sb (antimonene) nanoribbons is presented. By using a 6-orbital tight-binding Hamiltonian, we study the electronic band structure of finite ribbons with zigzag or armchair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Edo van Veen , Jin Yu , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Rafael Roldan , Shengjun Yuan

We study the thermoelectric properties of rectangular graphene rings connected symmetrically or asymmetrically to the leads. A side-gate voltage applied across the ring allows for the precise control of the electric current flowing through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-09 M. Saiz-Bretín , A. V. Malyshev , P. A. Orellana , F. Domínguez-Adame

Zigzag graphene nanoribbons can have magnetic ground states with ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic, or canted configurations, depending on carrier density. We show that an electric field directed across the ribbon alters the magnetic state,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-21 J. Jung , A. H. Macdonald

We study one dimensional (1D) carbon ribbons with the armchair edges and the zigzag carbon nanotubes and their counterparts with finite length (0D) in the framework of the H\"{u}ckel model. We prove that a 1D carbon ribbon is metallic if…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. V. Nikolaev , A. V. Bibikov , A. V. Avdeenkov , I. V. Bodrenko , E. V. Tkalya

The one-dimensional side gate based on graphene edges shows a significant capability of reducing the channel length of field-effect transistors, further increasing the integration density of semiconductor devices. The nano-scale electric…

We theoretically study the effect of transverse electric potentials on the transport properties of armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs), formed by pairs of asymme-tric gates placed along the side of the ribbon. Single pair and dual pair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-12 S. Bala Kumar , T. Fujita , Gengchiau Liang

Explicit expressions of the band spectrum near the neutrality point for armchair and zigzag graphene ribbons and carbon nanotubes were derived based on a tight-binding macromolecule model of graphene. The obtained dispersion relations are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lyuba Malysheva , Alexander Onipko