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Thermopower of graphene-superconductor (GS) junction is analyzed within the extended Blonder- Tinkham-Klapwijk formalism. Within this approach we have also calculated the temperature de- pendence of the zero-bias conductance for GS…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-08 Marcin Wysokiński , Jozef Spałek

Based on the nearest-neighbor tight-binding model, we present analytical description of low-energy electron transport through a symmetrical junction of two semimetal armchair ribbons. The results obtained demonstrate the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-27 O. Shevtsov , Yu. Klymenko

Impurities are unavoidable during the preparation of graphene samples and play an important role in graphene's electronic properties when they are adsorbed on graphene surface. In this work, we study the electronic structures and transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Lan Chen , Fangping Ouyang , Songshan Ma , Tie-Feng Fang , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

Based on first-principles calculations we predict that periodically repeated junctions of armchair graphene nanoribbons of different widths form superlattice structures. In these superlattice heterostructures the width and the energy gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Sevincli , M. Topsakal , S. Ciraci

We propose two schemes of field-effect transistor based on gapped armchair graphene nanoribbons connected to metal leads, by introducing sidearms or on-site gate voltages. We make use of the band gap to reach excellent switch-off character.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 H. Tong , M. W. Wu

Graphene two-dimensional nature combined with today lithography allows to achieve nanoelectronics devices smaller than the Dirac electrons wavelength. Here we show that in these graphene subwavelength nanodevices the electronic quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-08 Pierre Darancet , Valerio Olevano , Didier Mayou

Using first-principles plane wave calculations we predict that electronic and magnetic properties of graphene nanoribbons can be affected by defect-induced itinerant states. The band gaps of armchair nanoribbons can be modified by hydrogen…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-12 M. Topsakal , E. Akturk , H. Sevincli , S. Ciraci

In this paper, we study the conductance of the graphene nanoribbons(GNRs) in the presence of the Stone-Wales(S-W) reconstruction, using the transfer matrix method. The ribbon is connected with semi-infinite quantum wires as the leads. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-07 Jing Wang , Guiping Zhang , Fei Ye , Xiaoqun Wang

We address the tunneling current in a graphene-hBN-graphene heterostructure as function of the twisting between the crystals. The twisting induces a modulation of the hopping amplitude between the graphene layers, that provides the extra…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Luis Brey

The conductance, $G(E)$, through graphene nanoribbons (GNR) connected to a partially unzipped carbon nanotube (CNT) is studied in the presence of an external magnetic field applied parallel to the long axis of the tube by means of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Costamagna , A. Schulz , L. Covaci , F. Peeters

We investigate the Josephson effect in the graphene nanoribbons of length $L$ smaller than the superconducting coherence length and an arbitrary width $W$. We find that in contrast to an ordinary superconducting quantum point contact (SQPC)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-24 Ali G. Moghaddam , Malek Zareyan

We measured the conductance fluctuation of bi- and trilayer graphene devices prepared on mechanical exfoliated graphene by an all-dry, lithography-free process using an ultrathin quartz filament as a shadow mask. Reproducible fluctuations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Neal E. Staley , Conor Puls , Ying Liu

We study the photoconductivity response of graphene nanoribbons with armchair edges in the presence of dissipation using a Lindblad-von Neumann master equation formalism. We propose to control the transport properties by illuminating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 H. P. Ojeda Collado , Lukas Broers , Ludwig Mathey

Bilayer graphene twisted by a small angle shows a significant charge modulation away from neutrality, as the charge in the narrow bands near the Dirac point is mostly localized in the regions of the Moir\'e pattern with $AA$ stacking. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Francisco Guinea , Niels R. Walet

We study spin dependent transport through a magnetic bilayer graphene nanojunction configured as two dimensional normal/ferromagnetic/normal structure where the gate-voltage is applied on the layers of ferromagnetic graphene. Based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-13 Hosein Cheraghchi , Fatemeh Adinehvand

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

We propose a natural way to create quantum-confined regions in graphene in a system that allows large-scale device integration. We show, using first-principles calculations, that a single graphene layer on a trenched region of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-11 Matheus P. Lima , A. R. Rocha , Antônio J. R. da Silva , A. Fazzio

We study the effects of the interaction between electrons and holes on the conductance G of quasi-one-dimensional graphene systems. We first consider as a benchmark the limit in which all interactions are negligible, recovering the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. Bazzanella , P. Faccioli , E. Lipparini

We report a detailed analytic investigation of the interplay between size quantization and local scattering centers in armchair graphene nanoribbons, as seen in the conductance. The scattering property of a local scattering center is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-06 Anders Bergvall , Tomas Lofwander

We investigate theoretically resonant tunneling through double-bended graphene nanoribbon structures, i.e., armchair-edged graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) in between two semi-infinite zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) leads. Our numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Z. Zhang , Kai Chang , K. S. Chan