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Inspired by recent experiments where electron transport was measured across graphene nanoribbons (GNR) suspended between a metal surface and the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope [Koch \textit{et al}., Nat. Nanotechnol. {\bf 7}, 713…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-27 Rasmus B. Christensen , Thomas Frederiksen , Mads Brandbyge

We analyze theoretically 4-terminal electronic devices composed of two crossed graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and show that they can function as beam splitters or mirrors. These features are identified for electrons in the low-energy region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Sofia Sanz , Pedro Brandimarte , Géza Giedke , Daniel Sánchez-Portal , Thomas Frederiksen

Time-dependent quantum transport for graphene nanoribbons (GNR) are calculated by the hierarchical equation of motion (HEOM) method based on the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) theory (Xie et.al, J. Chem. Phys. 137, 044113, 2012). In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Hang Xie , Yanho Kwok , Yu Zhang , Feng Jiang , Xiao Zheng , YiJing Yan , GuanHua Chen

Thermoelectric properties of finite graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) coupled to metallic electrodes are theoretically studied in the framework of tight-binding model and Green's function approach. When the zigzag sides are coupled to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 David Ming Ting Kuo

Accurate modeling of the pi-bands of armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) requires correctly reproducing asymmetries in the bulk graphene bands as well as providing a realistic model for hydrogen passivation of the edge atoms. The commonly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-22 Timothy B. Boykin , Mathieu Luisier , Gerhard Klimeck , Xueping Jiang , Neerav Kharche , Yu Zhou , Saroj K. Nayak

The recent fabrication of graphene nanoribbon (GNR) field-effect transistors poses a challenge for first-principles modeling of carbon nanoelectronics due to many thousand atoms present in the device. The state of the art quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-28 Denis A. Areshkin , Branislav K. Nikolic

We study the electronic and transport properties of heterostructures formed by armchair graphene nanoribbons with intersections of finite length. We describe the system by a tight-binding model and calculate the density of states and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-19 L. Rosales , P. Orellana , Z. Barticevic , M. Pacheco

In this paper, we propose a combined modeling of molecular mechanics (MM) and the tight-binding (TB) approach, which enables us to study the effect of factors such as external local forces, constraints, and vacancy defects on electronic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Mahnoosh Rostami , Isa Ahmadi , Farhad Khoeini

This study investigates the behavior of photonic modes in twisted graphene nanoribbons (TGNRs) using an analytical approach based on solving the fully covariant vector boson equation. We present a model that demonstrates how helical…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-10 A. Guvendi , S. G. Dogan , O. Mustafa , K. Hasanirokh

We study electronic quantum transport in graphene nanoribbon (GNR) networks on mesoscopic length scales. We focus on zigzag GNRs and investigate the conductance properties of statistical networks. To this end we use a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Tom Simon Rodemund , Fabian Teichert , Martina Hentschel , Jörg Schuster

We present an atomistic three-dimensional simulation of graphene nanoribbon field effect transistors (GNR-FETs), based on the self-consistent solution of the 3D Poisson and Schroedinger equation with open boundary conditions within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Fiori , G. Iannaccone

Motivated by recent advances in fabricating graphene nanostructures, we find that an electron can be trapped in Z-shaped graphene nanoconstriction with zigzag edges. The central section of the constriction operates as a single-level quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 Adam Rycerz

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown promise in learning the ground-state electronic properties of materials, subverting ab initio density functional theory (DFT) calculations when the underlying lattices can be represented as small…

We investigate the electronic and optical properties of lateral heterostructures made of alternated armchair ribbons of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride. It is known that the gapwidth of these heterostructures can be classified into…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-22 Elisa Serrano Richaud , Sylvain Latil , Lorenzo Sponza

We derive electronic tight-binding Hamiltonians for strained graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and transition metal dichalcogenides based on Wannier transformation of {\it ab initio} density functional theory calculations. Our microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Shiang Fang , Stephen Carr , Miguel A. Cazalilla , Efthimios Kaxiras

We present numerical studies of conduction in graphene nanoribbons with reconstructed edges based on the standard tight-binding model of the graphene and the extended Huckel model of the reconstructed defects. We performed atomic geometry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 S. Ihnatsenka , G. Kirczenow

Finite size armchair graphene nanoribbons (GNR) of different families are theoretically studied using the Hubbard model in both mean-field and GW approximations, including spin correlation effects. It is shown that correlation primarily…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-15 Antoine Honet , Luc Henrard , Vincent Meunier

The thermoelectric properties of hybrid graphene-boron nitride nanoribbons (BCNNRs) are investigated using the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) approach. We find that the thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT) can be remarkably enhanced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Kaike Yang , Yuanping Chen , Roberto D'Agosta , Yuee Xie , Jianxin Zhong , Angel Rubio

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are one-dimensional nanostructures predicted to display a rich variety of electronic behaviors. Depending on their structure, GNRs realize metallic and semiconducting electronic structures with band gaps that can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-16 Oleg V. Yazyev

We extensively characterize the electronic structure of ultra-narrow graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with armchair edges and zig-zag termini that have 5 carbon atoms across their width (5-AGNRs), as synthesised on Au(111). Scanning tunnelling…