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We study charge transport in a graphene zigzag nanoribbon driven by an external time-periodic kicking potential. Using the exact solution of the time-dependent Dirac equation with a delta-kick potential acting in each period, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 D. Babajanov , D. U. Matrasulov , R. Egger

We report on a numerical study of quantum transport in disordered two dimensional graphene and graphene nanoribbons. By using the Kubo and the Landauer approaches, transport length scales in the diffusive (mean free path, charge mobilities)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-17 Aurelien Lherbier , Blanca Biel , Yann-Michel Niquet , Stephan Roche

We propose a unique way to control both bandgap and the magnetic properties of nanoscale graphene, which might prove highly beneficial for application in nanoelectronic and spintronic devices. We have shown that chemical doping by nitrogen…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Julia Berashevich , Tapash Chakraborty

We report on systematic study of electronic transport in low-biased, disordered graphene nanowires. We reveal the emergence of unipolar transport as the defect concentration increases beyond 0.3\% where an almost insulating behaviour is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-17 Zakaria Moktadir , Shuojin Hang , Hiroshi Mizuta

Among the different strategies used to induce the opening of a band gap in graphene, one common practice is through chemical doping. While a gap may me opened in this way, disorder-induced scattering is an unwanted side-effect that impacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 James A Lawlor , Claudia G Rocha , Vanessa Torres , Andrea Latgé , Mauro Ferreira

We review the transmission of Dirac electrons through a potential barrier in the presence of circularly polarized light. A different type of transmission is demonstrated and explained. Perfect transmission for nearly head-on collision in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Andrii Iurov , Bo Gao

The effects of lattice distortion and chemical disorder on charge transport properties of two-terminal zigzag phosphorene nanoribbons (zPNRs), which shows resonant tunneling behavior under an electrical applied bias, are studied. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Zahra Nourbakhsh , Reza Asgari

We study transport length scales in carbon nanotubes and graphene ribbons under the influence of Anderson disorder. We present generalized analytical expressions for the density of states, the elastic mean free path and the localization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Norbert Nemec , Klaus Richter , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

To address the robustness of the transport gap induced by locally strained regions in graphene nanostructures, the effect of disorder and smoothness of the interface region is investigated within the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 D. A. Bahamon , Vitor M. Pereira

The presence of strong disorder in graphene nanoribbons yields low-mobility diffusive transport at high charge densities, whereas a transport gap occurs at low densities. Here, we investigate the longitudinal and transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-03 Fabian Duerr , Jeroen B. Oostinga , Charles Gould , Laurens W. Molenkamp

We revisit the problem of electron transport in clean and disordered zigzag graphene nanoribbons, and expose numerous hitherto unknown peculiar properties of these systems at zero energy, where both sublattices decouple because of chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 J. M. Luck , Y. Avishai

The unconventional properties of graphene, with a massless Dirac band dispersion and large coherence properties, have raised a large interest for applications in nanoelectronics. In this work, we emphasize that graphene two dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-27 Pierre Darancet , Valerio Olevano , Didier Mayou

We employ the formalism of bond currents, expressed in terms of the nonequilibrium Green functions, to image the charge flow between two sites of the honeycomb lattice of graphene ribbons of few nanometers width. In sharp contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-18 Liviu P. Zarbo , Branislav K. Nikolic

In this work we propose an electronic L\'evy flight device, analogous to a recent optical realization. To that end, we investigate the transmission of electrons in graphene nanoribbons in the presence of circular electrostatic clusters,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-28 Diego B. Fonseca , Luiz Felipe C. Pereira , Anderson L. R. Barbosa

In this paper we systemically study the optical conductivity and density of states of disorded graphene beyond the Dirac cone approximation. The optical conductivity of graphene is computed by using the Kubo formula, within the framework of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-08 Shengjun Yuan , Rafael Roldán , Hans De Raedt , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

We report a theoretical low-field magnetotransport study unveiling the effect of pseudospin in realistic models of weakly disordered graphene-based materials. Using an efficient Kubo computational method, and simulating the effect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-11 Frank Ortmann , Alessandro Cresti , Gilles Montambaux , Stephan Roche

Conductance of zigzag interfaces between graphene sheet and normal metal is investigated in the tight-binding approximation. Boundary conditions, valid for a variety of scattering problems, are constructed and applied to the normal metal --…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ya. M. Blanter , Ivar Martin

We investigate transport through nanoribbons in the presence of disorder scattering. We show that size quantization patterns are only present when SU(2) pseudospin symmetry is preserved. Symmetry breaking disorder renders transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 F. Libisch , S. Rotter , J. Burgdörfer

Spin-hosting graphene nanostructures are promising metal-free systems for elementary quantum spintronic devices. Conventionally, spins are protected from quenching by electronic bandgaps, which also hinder electronic access to their quantum…

Charge carriers in graphene are chiral quasiparticles ("massless Dirac fermions"). Graphene provides therefore an amazing opportunity to study subtle quantum relativistic effects in condensed matter experiment. Here I review a theory of one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 M. I. Katsnelson