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Gaussian deformation in graphene structures exhibits an interesting effect in which flower-shaped confinement states are observed in the deformed region [Carrillo-Bastos et al., Phys. Rev. B 90 041411 (2014)]. To exploit such a deformation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Van-Truong Tran , Jérôme Saint-Martin , Philippe Dollfus

In general, there are two major factors affecting bandgaps in nanostructures: (i) the enhanced electron-electron interactions due to confinement and (ii) the modified self-energy of electrons due to the dielectric screening. While recent…

By applying tight binding model, we investigate the electronic and transport properties of randomly distributed Stone-Wales (SW) defects on an armchair graphene nanoribbon (AGNR). We use four different functions, as distribution functions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 Mobin Shakeri

Using a combination of accurate density-functional theory and a nonequilibrium Green function's method, we calculate the ballistic thermal conductance characteristics of tensile-strained armchair (AGNR) and zigzag (ZGNR) edge graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-22 Pei Shan Emmeline Yeo , Kian Ping Loh , Chee Kwan Gan

We performed a series of theoretical transport studies on Y-branch electron waveguides which are embedded in mid-size armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs). Non-equilibrium Greens function (NEGF) with different approximations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Vahid Mosallanejad , Kuei-Lin Chiu , Guo-ping Guo

We present an analytical description of pi electrons of a finite size bilayer graphene within a framework of the tight-binding model. The bilayered structures considered here are characterized by a rectangular geometry and have a finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 J. Ruseckas , G. Juzeliunas , I. V. Zozoulenko

We study the influence of ripple waves originating from the electromechanical effects on spin relaxation caused by electromagnetic fields in armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). By utilizing analytical expressions supported by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 Sanjay Prabhakar , Roderick Melnik , Shyam Badu

We present an analytical investigation of the exciton optical absorption in a narrow armchair graphene nanoribbon (AGNR) in the presence of a longitudinal external electric field directed parallel to the ribbon axis. The two-body 2D Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 B. S. Monozon , P. Schmelcher

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

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

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are promising components in future nanoelectronics due to the large mobility of graphene electrons and their tunable electronic band gap in combination with recent experimental developments of on-surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-03 Pedro Brandimarte , Mads Engelund , Nick Papior , Aran Garcia-Lekue , Thomas Frederiksen , Daniel Sánchez-Portal

Seven types of armchair graphyne nanoribbons are investigated with HSE06 functional. The quantum confinements in the graphyne nanoribbons open or increase the band gaps of the corresponding two-dimensional graphynes, which is crucial to…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-25 Hongyu Ge , Guo Wang , Yi Liao

We study theoretically the coherent electron focusing in graphene nanoribbons. Using semiclassical and numerical tight binding calculations we show that perfect armchair edges give rise to equidistant peaks in the focusing spectrum. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-22 Peter Rakyta , Andor Kormanyos , Jozsef Cserti , Pekka Koskinen

Using the non-equilibrium Green's functions formalism in a tight binding model, the spin-dependent transport in armchair graphene nanoribbon (GNR) structures controlled by a ferromagnetic gate is investigated. Beyond the oscillatory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 V. Hung Nguyen , V. Nam Do , A. Bournel , V. Lien Nguyen , P. Dollfus

We theoretically investigate the electron transport in armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) chemically functionalized with p-polyphenyl and polyacene groups of increasing length. Our nearest-neighbor tight-binding calculations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-01 Kristiāns Čerņevičs , Michele Pizzochero , Oleg V. Yazyev

The electronic properties of graphene are influenced by both geometric confinement and strain. We study the electronic structure of in-plane bent graphene nanoribbons, systems where confinement and strain are combined. To understand its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-21 S. G. Stuij , P. H. Jacobse , V. Juricic , C. Morais Smith

The groundbreaking works in graphene and graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) over the past decade, and the recent discovery of borophene draw immediate attention to the underexplored borophene nanoribbons (BNRs). We herein report a density…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-24 Fanchen Meng , Xiangnan Chen , Songsong Sun , Jian He

Controlling the forbidden gap of graphene nano-ribbons (GNR) is a major challenge that has to be attained if this attractive material has to be used in micro- and nano-electronics. Using an unambiguous notation {m,n}-GNR, where m (n) is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 J. A. Vergés , G. Chiappe , E. Louis

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have attracted considerable interest as their atomically tunable structure makes them promising candidates for future electronic devices. However, obtaining detailed information about the length of GNRs has been…

It is now possible to produce graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with atomically defined widths. GNRs offer many opportunities for electronic devices and composites, if it is possible to establish the link between edge structure and…