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We report, based on its variation in electronic transport to coupled tension and shear deformation, a highly sensitive graphene-based strain sensor consisting of an armchair graphene nanoribbon (AGNR) between metallic contacts. As the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-28 Zenan Qi , Jian Zhang , Guiping Zhang , Harold S. Park

A novel nanoelectronic device is constructed by graphyne that is robustly connected between graphene electrodes, where graphyne is composed of hexagonal carbon rings and carbon chains. Owing to similarities between the bond lengths and unit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-17 Young I. Jhon , Myung S. Jhon

We theoretically study the effect of transverse electric potentials on the transport properties of armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs), formed by pairs of asymme-tric gates placed along the side of the ribbon. Single pair and dual pair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-12 S. Bala Kumar , T. Fujita , Gengchiau Liang

We study electron transport properties of a monoatomic graphite layer (graphene) with different types of disorder. We show that the transport properties of the system depend strongly on the character of disorder. Away from half filling, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

Hybrid graphene-superconductor devices have attracted much attention since the early days of graphene research. So far, these studies have been limited to the case of diffusive transport through graphene with poorly defined and modest…

We investigate the superconducting proximity effect through graphene in the long diffusive junction limit, at low and high magnetic field. The interface quality and sample phase coherence lead to a zero resistance state at low temperature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Katsuyoshi Komatsu , Chuan Li , S. Autier-Laurent , H. Bouchiat , S. Gueron

We study the electronic structure of gated graphene sheets. We consider both infinite graphene and finite width ribbons. The effect of Coulomb interactions between the electrically injected carriers and the coupling to the external gate are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-29 J. Fernandez-Rossier , J. J. Palacios , L. Brey

A yet unexplored area in graphene electronics is the field of quantum ballistic transport through graphene nanostructures. Recent developments in the preparation of high mobility graphene are expected to lead to the experimental…

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 calculate the band structure and the conductance of periodic corrugated graphene nanoribbons within the framework of the tight-binding $p$-orbital model. We consider corrugated structures based on host ribbons with armchair and zigzag…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Ihnatsenka , I. V. Zozoulenko , G. Kirczenow

Electronic transport properties in armchair shaped edges graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) doped various impurities have been simulated by the non-equilibrium Green's function approach combined with the first principle calculation based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Hiroyoshi Tsuyuki , Shoichi Sakamoto , Mitsuyoshi Tomiya

In the effective mass approximation, electronic property in graphene can be characterized by the relativistic Dirac equation. Within such a continuum model we investigate the electronic transport through graphene waveguides formed by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Haidong Li , Lin Wang , Zhihuan Lan , Yisong Zheng

A graphene sheet partially covered with a bulk superconductor serves as a normal conductor--superconductor (NS) junction, in which electron transport is mainly governed by Andreev reflection (AR). As excess carriers induced over the covered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Yositake Takane , Katsuhide Yarimizu , Akinobu Kanda

We investigate the conductance of normal-conductor/graphene/normal-conductor (NGN) junctions for arbitrary on-site potentials in the normal and graphitic parts of the system. We find that a ballistic NGN junction can display insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-11 John P Robinson , Henning Schomerus

If a device like a graphene nanoribbon (GNR) has all its four corners attached to electric current leads, the device becomes a quantum junction through which two electrical circuits can interact. We study such system theoretically for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-21 Martin Konôpka , Peter Dieška

We investigate the impact of strained nanobubbles on the conductance characteristics of graphene nanoribbons using a combined molecular dynamics - tight-binding simulation scheme. We describe in detail how the conductance, density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 D. A. Bahamon , Zenan Qi , Harold S. Park , Vitor M. Pereira , David K. Campbell

We study electron transport properties of a monoatomic graphite layer (graphene) with different types of disorder at half filling. We show that the transport properties of the system depend strongly on the symmetry of disorder. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-04 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

The spin-dependent transport properties of armchair graphene nanoribbons in the presence of extrinsic spin-orbit coupling induced by a random distribution of Nickel adatoms is studied. By combining a recursive Green's function formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Wudmir Y. Rojas , Cesar E. P. Villegas , Alexandre R. Rocha

We present the first principle calculations of the electrical properties of graphene sheet/h-BN heterojunction(GS/h-BN) and 11-armchair graphene nanoribbon heterojunction(11-AGNR/h-BN), which were carried out using the density functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Taiga Wakai , Shoichi Sakamoto , Mitsuyoshi Tomiya

We study the conductance of graphene nanoribbons with long-range disorder. Due to the absence of intervalley scattering from the disorder potential, time-reversal symmetry (TRS) can be effectively broken even without a magnetic field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-11 J. Wurm , M. Wimmer , K. Richter