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Boltzmann transport theory fails near the linear band-crossing of single-layer graphene and near the quadratic band-crossing of bilayer graphene. We report on a numerical study which assesses the role of inter-band coherence in transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-11 Maxim Trushin , Janik Kailasvuori , John Schliemann , A. H. MacDonald

The electronic properties of graphene zig-zag nanoribbons with electrostatic potentials along the edges are investigated. Using the Dirac-fermion approach, we calculate the energy spectrum of an infinitely long nanoribbon of finite width…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-01 W. Apel , G. Pal , L. Schweitzer

We compare a fully quantum mechanical numerical calculation of the conductivity of graphene to the semiclassical Boltzmann theory. Considering a disorder potential that is smooth on the scale of the lattice spacing, we find quantitative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-28 Shaffique Adam , Piet W. Brouwer , S. Das Sarma

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

We report electrical transport measurements on a suspended ultra-low-disorder graphene nanoribbon(GNR) with nearly atomically smooth edges that reveal a high mobility exceeding 3000 cm2 V-1 s-1 and an intrinsic band gap. The experimentally…

The two-dimensional electron gas at the LaTiO3/SrTiO3 or LaAlO3/SrTiO3 oxide interfaces becomes superconducting when the carrier density is tuned by gating. The measured resistance and superfluid density reveal an inhomogeneous…

We use the robust nearest-neighbour tight-binding approximation to study on the same footing interband dipole transitions in narrow-bandgap carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons. It is demonstrated that curvature effects in metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 R. R. Hartmann , V. A. Saroka , M. E. Portnoi

We report a detailed investigation of the interplay between size quantization and local scattering centers in graphene nanoribbons, as seen in the local density of states. The spectral signatures, obtained after Fourier transformation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 Anders Bergvall , Tomas Lofwander

We consider electronic spectra of graphene nanotubes and their perturbation by impurity atoms absorbed at different positions on nanotube surfaces, within the framework of Anderson hybrid model. A special attention is given to the cases…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Y. G. Pogorelov , V. M. Loktev

The full counting statistics of the charge transport through an undoped graphene sheet in the presence of smooth disorder is studied. At the Dirac point both in clean and diffusive limits, transport properties of a graphene sample are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-11 A. Schuessler , P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

We investigate the conductivity $\sigma$ of graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges as a function of Fermi energy $E_F$ in the presence of the impurities with different potential range. The dependence of $\sigma(E_F)$ displays four different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-20 Yan-Yang Zhang , Jiang-Ping Hu , X. C. Xie , W. M. Liu

In the present work we investigate two-terminal electron transport through a finite width kagome lattice nanoribbon in presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. We employ a simple tight-binding (T-B) Hamiltonian to describe the system and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-04 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

A heterojunction tunneling field effect transistor based on armchair graphene nanoribbons is proposed and studied using ballistic quantum transport simulation based on 3D real space nonequilibrium Green's function formalism. By using low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-13 Fei Liu , Xiaoyan Liu , Jinfeng Kang , Yi Wang

Motivated by recent experiments on suspended graphene showing carrier mobilities as high as 200,000 cm^2/Vs, we theoretically calculate transport properties assuming Coulomb impurities as the dominant scattering mechanism. We argue that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-05-11 S. Adam , S. Das Sarma

Among their amazing properties, graphene and related low-dimensional materials show quantized charge-density fluctuations--known as plasmons--when exposed to photons or electrons of suitable energies. Graphene nanoribbons offer an enhanced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-14 Cristian Vacacela Gomes , Michele Pisarra , Mario Gravina , Jose M. Pitarke , Antonello Sindona

The topic of superconductivity in strongly disordered materials has attracted a significant attention. In particular vivid debates are related to the subject of intrinsic spatial inhomogeneity responsible for non-BCS relation between the…

We study the effect of a sharply localized magnetic field on the electron transport in a strip (ribbon) of graphene sheet, which allows to give results for the transmission and reflection probability through magnetic barriers. The magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Abdulaziz D. Alhaidari , Hocine Bahlouli , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

We study the electronic structure and transport properties of zigzag and armchair monolayer molybdenum disulfide nanoribbons using an 11-band tight-binding model that accurately reproduces the material's bulk band structure near the band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-02 Emilia Ridolfi , Leandro R. F. Lima , Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Caio H. Lewenkopf

Motivated by the ever-improving performance of deep learning techniques, we design a mixed input convolutional neural network approach to predict transport properties in deformed nanoscale materials using a height map of deformations (from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Jack G. Nedell , Jonah Spector , Adel Abbout , Michael Vogl , Gregory A. Fiete

We investigate the transport properties of double-gated bilayer graphene nanoribbons at room temperature. The devices were fabricated using conventional CMOS-compatible processes. By analyzing the dependence of the resistance at the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Bartholomaeus N. Szafranek , Daniel Schall , Martin Otto , Daniel Neumaier , Heinrich Kurz