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The indirect exchange interaction is one of the key factors in determining the overall alignment of magnetic impurities embedded in metallic host materials. In this work we examine the range of this interaction in magnetically-doped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-30 J. M. Duffy , P. D. Gorman , S. R. Power , M. S. Ferreira

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

Electron transport and quantum conductance through an armchair graphene and its oxidized graphene- containing form were investigated by the density functional theory (DFT) method and the implementation of the non-equilibrium Green function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-29 Badie Ghavami , Alireza Rastkar-Ebrahimzadeh

Two-dimensional graphene, carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons represent a novel class of low dimensional materials that could serve as building blocks for future carbon-based nanoelectronics. Although these systems share a similar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-05 Alessandro Cresti , Norbert Nemec , Blanca Biel , Gabriel Niebler , Francois Triozon , Gianaurelio Cuniberti , Stephan Roche

We study spin-dependent transport through a quantum nanostructure composed of a quantum dot (QD) surrounded by a quantum nanoring. The nanostructure is side-attached to source and drain electrodes and we assume that the confining potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Barbara Kedzierska , Anna Gorczyca-Goraj , Elzbieta Zipper , Maciej M. Maska

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…

We combine density-functional theory and the nonequilibrium Green's function method to study the thermal conductance of graphene nanoribbons with armchair and zigzag edges. Zigzag ribbons have higher thermal conductance than armchair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-05 Zhen Wah Tan , Jian-Sheng Wang , Chee Kwan Gan

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

We investigate the spin-dependent electric and thermoelectric properties of ferromagnetic zigzag-graphyne nanoribbons (ZGNRs) using the density-functional theory combined with the non-equilibrium Green's function method. A giant…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-01 M. X. Zhai , X. F. Wang , P. Vasilopoulos , Y. S. Liu , Y. J. Dong , L. Zhou , Y. J. Jiang , W. L. You

We calculate the local current density in pristine armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) with varying width, $N_\mathrm{C}$, employing a density-functional-theory-based ab initio transport formalism. We observe very pronounced current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-15 Jan Wilhelm , Michael Walz , Ferdinand Evers

Using a first principles density functional electronic structure method, we study the energy gaps and magnetism in bilayer graphene nanoribbons as a function of the ribbon width and the strength of an external electric field between the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Bhagawan Sahu , Hongki Min , Allan. H. MacDonald , Sanjay K. Banerjee

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

First principles calculations are used to establish that the electronic structure of graphene ribbons with zig-zag edges is unstable with respect to magnetic polarisation of the edge states. The magnetic interaction between edge states is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 L. Pisani , J. A. Chan , B. Montanari , N. M. Harrison

Materials and devices used in space and advanced energy systems are continuously exposed to high-energy photons and particles, leading to gradual changes in their structural and electronic properties. Gamma-ray exposure is particularly…

We present a theoretical study on the spin-dependent transport through a spin valve consisting of graphene sandwiched between two magnetic leads with an arbitrary orientation of the lead magnetization. No gate voltage is applied. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kai-He Ding , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Jamal Berakdar

Straintronic devices made of carbon-based materials have been pushed up due to the graphene high mechanical flexibility and the possibility of interesting changes in transport properties. Properly designed strained systems have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 V. Torres , D. Faria , A. Latgé

We investigate quantum charge and spin pumping in armchair graphene nanoribbons under a single ac gate voltage connected with nonmagnetic/ferromagnetic leads via the nonequilibrium Green's function method. In the case of nonmagnetic leads,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-06 Y. Zhou , M. W. Wu

We investigate electronic transport in lithographically patterned graphene ribbon structures where the lateral confinement of charge carriers creates an energy gap near the charge neutrality point. Individual graphene layers are contacted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Melinda Y. Han , Barbaros Oezyilmaz , Yuanbo Zhang , Philip Kim

We propose a graphene device that can generate spin-dependent negative differential resistance (NDR). The device is composed of a sufficiently wide and short graphene and two gated EuO strips deposited on top of it. This scheme avoids…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-26 Yu Song , Yang Liu , Xiaolong Feng , Fei Yan , Wei-Zhi Zhang

The specific band structure of graphene, with its unique valley structure and Dirac neutrality point separating hole states from electron states has led to the observation of new electronic transport phenomena such as anomalously quantized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 Nikolaos Tombros , Csaba Jozsa , Mihaita Popinciuc , Harry T. Jonkman , Bart J. van Wees