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We study dc and ac transport along armchair graphene nanoribbons using the ${\bf k\cdot p}$ spectrum and eigenfunctions and general linear-response expressions for the conductivities. Then we contrast the results with those for transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 M. Zubair , M. Bahrami , P. Vasilopoulos

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

We investigate the electronic transport properties of unbiased and biased bilayer graphene nanoribbon in n-p and n-n junctions subject to a perpendicular magnetic field. Using the non-equilibrium Green's function method and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 H. Hatami , N. Abedpour , A. Qaiumzadeh , Reza Asgari

We study the effects of uniaxial strains on the transport properties of the graphene nanoribbons(GNRs) connected with two metallic leads in heterojunctions, using the transfer matrix method. Two typical GNRs with zigzag and armchair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jing Wang , Guiping Zhang , Fei Ye , Xiaoqun Wang

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

The characteristics of energy band spectrum of armchair graphene nanoribbons in presence of line defect are analyzed within a simple non-interacting tight-binding framework. In metallic nanoribbons an energy gap may or may not appear in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-19 Paramita Dutta , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

We have investigated the magnetoresistance of lithographically prepared single-layer graphene nanoribbons in pulsed, perpendicular magnetic fields up to 60 T and performed corresponding transport simulations using a tight-binding model and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-24 S. Minke , S. H. Jhang , J. Wurm , Y. Skourski , J. Wosnitza , C. Strunk , D. Weiss , K. Richter , J. Eroms

Numerical calculations have been performed to elucidate unconventional electronic transport properties in disordered nanographene ribbons with zigzag edges (zigzag ribbons). The energy band structure of zigzag ribbons has two valleys that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-07 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Yositake Takane , Masayuki Yamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

We present self-consistent calculations of electron transport in graphene nanoconstrictions within the Hartree approximation. We consider suspended armchair ribbons with V-shaped constrictions having perfect armchair or zigzag edges as well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-20 S. Ihnatsenka , G. Kirczenow

The conductivity of armchair graphene nanoribbons in the presence of short-range impurities and edge roughness is studied theoretically using the Boltzmann transport equation for quasi-one-dimensional systems. As the number of occupied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Hengyi Xu , Thomas Heinzel

Results of quantum mechanical simulations of the influence of edge disorder on transport in graphene nanoribbon metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) are reported. The addition of edge disorder significantly reduces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-10 D. Basu , M. J. Gilbert , L. F. Register , A. H. MacDonald , S. K. Banerjee

In this work we present a theoretical study of transport properties of a double crossbar junction composed by segments of graphene ribbons with different widths forming a graphene quantum dot structure. The systems are described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-29 Jhon W. Gonzalez , Monica Pacheco , Luis Rosales , Pedro Orellana

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

Explicit expressions of the band spectrum near the neutrality point for armchair and zigzag graphene ribbons and carbon nanotubes were derived based on a tight-binding macromolecule model of graphene. The obtained dispersion relations are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lyuba Malysheva , Alexander Onipko

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

We investigate the transmission of electrons between conducting nanoribbon leads oriented at multiples of 60 degrees with respect to one another, connected either directly or through graphene polygons. A mode-matching analysis suggests that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Iyengar , T. Luo , H. A. Fertig , L. Brey

Electronic transport in a graphene-based ferromagnetic/normal/ferromagnetic junction is investigated by means of Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formulism and the nonequilibrium Green's function technique. For the zigzag edge case, the results show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jiang-chai Chen , Shu-guang Cheng , Shun-Qing Shen , Qing-feng Sun

Graphene's isolation launched explorations of fundamental relativistic physics originating from the planar honeycomb lattice arrangement of the carbon atoms, and of potential technological applications in nanoscale electronics. Bottom-up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-13 Constantine Yannouleas , Igor Romanovsky , Uzi Landman

The coherent transport properties of armchair graphene nanoconstrictions(GNC) are studied using tight-binding approach and Green's function method. We find a non-bonding state at zero Fermi energy which results in a zero conductance valley,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 HuiQiong Yin , Wei Li , Xiao Hu , Ruibao Tao

We study the transport properties of graphene nanoribbons of standardized 30 nm width and varying lengths. We find that the extent of the gap observed in transport as a function of Fermi energy in these ribbons (the "transport gap") does…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-11 Patrick Gallagher , Kathryn Todd , David Goldhaber-Gordon