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Electron transport in thin metallic wires and films is strongly influenced by the quality of their surface. Weak localization and magnetoconductivity are also sensitive to the electron scattering at the edges of the sample. We study weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 E. Khalaf , P. M. Ostrovsky

We investigate new properties of the Dirac electrons in the finite graphene sample under perpendicular magnetic field that emerge when an in-plane electric bias is also applied. The numerical analysis of the Hofstadter spectrum and of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 B. Ostahie , M. Nita , A. Aldea

Doping of semiconductor is necessary for various device applications. Exploiting chemistry at its reactive edges was shown to be an effective way to dope an atomically thin graphene nanoribbon (GNR) for realizing new devices in recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Yijian Ouyang , Stefano Sanvito , Jing Guo

The transmittance of intersection between narrow quantum strips is studied. It is assumed that strip widths are less than the electron wavelength, so that they are tunnel conductors. In this assumption the Schr\"odinger equation is reduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 L. Braginsky , M. V. Entin

Transport of spherical Brownian particles of finite size possessing radii through narrow channels with varying cross-section area is considered. Applying the so-called Fick-Jacobs approximation, i.e. assuming fast equilibration in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Wolfgang Riefler , Gerhard Schmid , P Sekhar Burada , Peter Hanggi

We present a kinetic equation approach to investigate dc transport properties of graphene in the diffusive regime considering long-range electron-impurity scattering. In our study, the effects of interband correlation (or polarization) on…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei , Norman J. M. Horing

In this review we focus on the effect of the Dirac nature of graphene quasiparticles on two separate aspects. The first of these involves transport across superconducting graphene junctions with barriers of thickness $d_0$ and arbitrary…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-11 M. Maiti , K. Saha , K. Sengupta

In this paper we analyse the electronic properties of Dirac electrons in finite-size ribbons and in circular and hexagonal quantum dots made of graphene.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-06 N. M. R. Peres , J. N. B. Rodrigues , T. Stauber , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are natural waveguides for electrons in graphene. Nevertheless, unlike micron-sized samples, conductance is nearly suppressed in these narrow graphene stripes, mainly due to scattering with edge disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-28 E. J. Robles-Raygoza , V. G. Ibarra-Sierra , J. C. Sandoval-Santana , R. Carrillo-Bastos

We investigate the quantum transport dynamics of electrons in a multi-path Aharonov-Bohm interferometer comprising several parallel graphene nanoribbons. At low magnetic field strengths, the conductance displays a complex oscillatory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Cynthia I. Osuala , Zitao Tang , Stefan Strauf , Eui-Hyeok Yang , Chunlei Qu

We develop the stub model for the Dirac Quantum Dot, an electron confining device on a grapheme surface. Analytical results for the average conductance and the correlation functions are obtained and found in agreement with those found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 J. G. G. S. Ramos , M. S. Hussein , A. L. R. Barbosa

Recently, an exotic quantum Hall ferromagnet with spin-filtered helical edge modes was observed in monolayer graphene on a high-dielectric constant substrate at moderate magnetic fields, withstanding temperatures of up to 110 Kelvin [L.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-09-13 Yue-Ran Ding , Dong-Hui Xu , Chui-Zhen Chen

We study the the transport properties of multiterminal ballistic graphene samples, concentrating on the conductance matrix, fluctuations and cross-correlations. Far away from Dirac point, the current is carried mostly by propagating modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-03 M. A. Laakso , T. T. Heikkilä

Due to their unique electrical properties, graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) show great promise as the building blocks of novel electronic devices. However, these properties are strongly dependent on the geometry of the edges of the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-17 Patrick Hawkins , Milan Begliarbekov , Marko Zivkovic , Stefan Strauf , Christopher P. Search

Today graphene nanoribbons and other graphene-based nanostructures can be synthesized with atomic precision. But while investigations have concentrated on straight graphene ribbons of fixed crystal orientation, ribbons with intrinsic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-29 C. G. Rocha , R. Tuovinen , R. van Leeuwen , P. Koskinen

The appearence of long-range correlations near the Dirac point of a Dirac-like spinor model with random vector potential is studied. These correlations originate from a spontaneously broken symmetry and their corresponding Goldstone modes.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-04 K. Ziegler

A remarkable manifestation of the quantum character of electrons in matter is offered by graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite. Unlike conventional solids where electrons are described with the Schrodinger equation, electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Z. Q. Li , E. A. Henriksen , Z. Jiang , Z. Hao , M. C. Martin , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer , D. N. Basov

In the presence of the charged impurities, we study the weak localization (WL) effect by evaluating the quantum interference correction (QIC) to the conductivity of Dirac fermions in graphene. With the inelastic scattering rate due to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-12-22 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

We present a numerical method to compute the Landauer conductance of noninteracting two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions in disordered systems. The method allows for the introduction of boundary conditions at the ribbon edges and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 Alexis R. Hernández , Caio H. Lewenkopf

Edge nanoscrolls are shown to strongly influence transport properties of suspended graphene in the quantum Hall regime. The relatively long arc length of the scrolls in combination with their compact transverse size results in formation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-11 Alessandro Cresti , Michael M. Fogler , Francisco Guinea , A. H. Castro Neto , Stephan Roche