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Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) make up an extremely interesting class of materials. On the one hand GNRs share many of the superlative properties of graphene, while on the other hand they display an exceptional degree of tunability of their…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-22 Martina Corso , Eduard Carbonell-Sanromà , Dimas G. de Oteyza

We report electronic measurements on high-quality graphene nanoconstrictions (GNCs) fabricated in a transmission electron microscope (TEM), and the first measurements on GNC conductance with an accurate measurement of constriction width…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ye Lu , Christopher A. Merchant , Marija Drndić , A. T. Charlie Johnson

Graphane and graphene are both two-dimensional materials but of different bonding configurations, which can result in distinct thermal conduction properties. We simulate thermal conduction in graphane nanoribbons (GANRs) using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Dengfeng Li , Yong Xu , Xiaobin Chen , Bolin Li , Wenhui Duan

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are atomically precise stripes of graphene with tunable electronic properties, making them promising for room-temperature switching applications like field-effect transistors (FETs). However, challenges persist…

We report the experimental observation of conductance quantization in graphene nanoribbons, where 1D transport subbands are formed due to the lateral quantum confinement. We show that this quantization in graphene nanoribbons can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Yu-Ming Lin , Vasili Perebeinos , Zhihong Chen , Phaedon Avouris

Ballistic quantum transport calculations based on the non-equilbrium Green's function formalism show that field-effect transistor devices made from chevron-type graphene nanoribbons (CGNRs) could exhibit negative differential resistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Samuel Smith , Juan-Pablo Llinás , Jeffrey Bokor , Sayeef Salahuddin

We investigate the thermal conductivity of suspended graphene as a function of the density of defects, ND, introduced in a controllable way. Graphene layers are synthesized using chemical vapor deposition, transferred onto a transmission…

The magnetoconductance of graphene nanoribbons with rough zigzag and armchair edges is studied by numerical simulations. nanoribbons with sufficiently small bulk disorder show a pronounced magnetoconductance minimum at cyclotron radii close…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-09 Hengyi Xu , T. Heinzel , I. V. Zozoulenko

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) produced by means of bottom-up chemical self-assembly are considered promising candidates for the next-generation nanoelectronic devices. We address the electronic transport properties of angled two-terminal GNR…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Kristiāns Čerņevičs , Oleg V. Yazyev

We have fabricated graphene nano-ribbon field-effect transistor devices and investigated their electrical properties as a function of ribbon width. Our experiments show that the resistivity of a ribbon increases as its width decreases,…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-12-17 Zhihong Chen , Yu-Ming Lin , Michael J. Rooks , Phaedon Avouris

The conductance of metallic graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with single defects and weak disorder at their edges is investigated in a tight-binding model. We find that a single edge defect will induce quasi-localized states and consequently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-07 T. C. Li , Shao-Ping Lu

Conductance fluctuation is usually unavoidable in graphene nanoribbons (GNR) due to the presence of disorder along its edges. By measuring the low-frequency noise in GNR devices, we find that the conductance fluctuation is strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Guangyu Xu , Carlos M. Torres , Emil B. Song , Jianshi Tang , Jingwei Bai , Xiangfeng Duan , Yuegang Zhang , Kang L. Wang

In graphene nanoribbon junctions, the nearly perfect transmission occurs in some junctions while the zero conductance dips due to anti-resonance appear in others. We have classified the appearance of zero conductance dips for all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-07 Masayuki Yamamoto , Katsunori Wakabayashi

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with atomically precise width and edge structures are a promising class of nanomaterials for optoelectronics, thanks to their semiconducting nature and high mobility of charge carriers. Understanding the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Alexander Tries , Silvio Osella , Pengfei Zhang , Fugui Xu , Mathias Kläui , Yiyong Mai , David Beljonne , Hai I. Wang

The electronic nonlinear transport through ultra narrow graphene nanoribbons (sub-$10nm$) is studied. A stable region of negative differential resistance (NDR) appears in the I-V characteristic curve of {\it odd} zigzag graphene nanoribbons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-14 Hosein Cheraghchi

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are one-dimensional (1D) structures that exhibit a rich variety of electronic properties1-17. Therefore, they are predicted to be the building blocks in next-generation nanoelectronic devices. Theoretically, it…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-02 Wen-Xiao Wang , Mei Zhou , Xinqi Li , Si-Yu Li , Xiaosong Wu , Wenhui Duan , Lin He

Kirigami structure, from the macro- to the nanoscale, exhibits distinct and tunable properties from original 2-dimensional sheet by tailoring. In present work, the extreme reduction of the thermal conductivity by tailoring sizes in graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-16 Ning Wei , Yang Chen , Kun Cai , HuiQiong Wang , Junhua Zhao , Jin-Cheng Zheng

Aligned graphene nanoribbon (GNR) arrays were made by unzipping of aligned single-walled and few-walled carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays. Nanotube unzipping was achieved by a polymer-protected Ar plasma etching method, and the resulting…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-03 Liying Jiao , Li Zhang , Lei Ding , Jie Liu , Hongjie Dai

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are a novel and intriguing class of materials in the field of nanoelectronics, since their properties, solely defined by their width and edge type, are controllable with high precision directly from synthesis.…

Graphene has shown impressive properties for nanoelectronics applications including a high mobility and a width-dependent bandgap. Use of graphene in nanoelectronics would most likey be in the form of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yinxiao Yang , Raghunath Murali