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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

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with widths of a few nanometres are promising candidates for future nano-electronic applications due to their structurally tunable bandgaps, ultrahigh carrier mobilities, and exceptional stability. However, the…

The optical conductivity of graphene nanoribbons is analytical and exactly derived. It is shown that the absence of translation invariance along the transverse direction allows considerable intra-band absorption in a narrow frequency window…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-21 F. Hipolito , A. J. Chaves , R. M. Ribeiro , M. I. Vasilevskiy , Vitor M. Pereira , N. M. R. Peres

In this work, fundamental results for carrier statistics in graphene 2-dimensional sheets and nanoscale ribbons are derived. Though the behavior of intrinsic carrier densities in 2d graphene sheets is found to differ drastically from…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Tian Fang , Aniruddha Konar , Huili Xing , Debdeep Jena

Using a combination of accurate density-functional theory and a nonequilibrium Green function's method, we calculate the ballistic thermal conductance characteristics of tensile-strained armchair (AGNR) and zigzag (ZGNR) edge graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-22 Pei Shan Emmeline Yeo , Kian Ping Loh , Chee Kwan Gan

Transport measurements on an etched graphene nanoribbon are presented. It is shown that two distinct voltage scales can be experimentally extracted that characterize the parameter region of suppressed conductance at low charge density in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-02-26 C. Stampfer , J. Guettinger , S. Hellmueller , F. Molitor , K. Ensslin , T. Ihn

We have fabricated suspended few layer (1-3 layers) graphene nanoribbon field effect transistors from unzipped multiwall carbon nanotubes. Electrical transport measurements show that current-annealing effectively removes the impurities on…

We analyze theoretically 4-terminal electronic devices composed of two crossed graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and show that they can function as beam splitters or mirrors. These features are identified for electrons in the low-energy region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Sofia Sanz , Pedro Brandimarte , Géza Giedke , Daniel Sánchez-Portal , Thomas Frederiksen

Recently synthesized Porous 12-Atom-Wide Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons Nano Lett. 2024, 24, 10718-10723 exhibit tunable properties through periodic porosity, enabling precise control over their electronic, optical, thermal, and mechanical…

Research on the physical properties of materials at the nanoscale is crucial for the development of breakthrough nanotechnologies. One of the key properties to consider is the ability to conduct heat, i.e., its thermal conductivity.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Alexandre F. Fonseca , Luiz Felipe C. Pereira

We investigate the carrier transport characteristics of perforated graphene layer (PGL) composed of arrays of interdigital coplanar graphene microribbons (GMRs) connected by graphene nanoribbon (GNR) bridges. We analyze their operation at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 V. Ryzhii , C. Tang , M. Ryzhii , M. S. Shur

Recent progress in the on-surface synthesis of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) has given access to atomically precise narrow GNRs with tunable electronic band gaps that makes them excellent candidates for room-temperature switching devices such…

Atomically precise armchair graphene nanoribbons of width $N=7$ (7-AGNRs) are investigated by scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) on Au(111). The analysis of energy-dependent standing wave patterns of finite length ribbons allows, by…

Tunneling field-effect transistors (FETs) have been intensely explored recently due to its potential to address power concerns in nanoelectronics. The recently discovered graphene nanoribbon (GNR) is ideal for tunneling FETs due to its…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-30 Pei Zhao , Jyotsna Chauhan , Jing Guo

Graphene nanoribbons with sub-nanometer widths are extremely interesting for nanoscale electronics and devices as they combine the unusual transport properties of graphene with the opening of a band gap due to quantum confinement in the…

We investigate the density and temperature-dependent conductance of graphene nanoribbons with varying aspect ratio. Transport is dominated by a chain of quantum dots forming spontaneously due to disorder. Depending on ribbon length,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-11 S. Dröscher , H. Knowles , Y. Meir , K. Ensslin , T. Ihn

We study the transport properties, in particular, the thermoelectric figure of merit ZT of armchair graphene nanoribbons, AGNR-N (for N=4-12, with widths ranging from 3.7 to 13.6~\AA) through strain engineering, where N is the number of…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-22 Pei Shan Emmeline Yeo , Michael B. Sullivan , Kian Ping Loh , Chee Kwan Gan

Graphene nanoribbons are one-dimensional stripes of graphene with width- and edge-structure-dependent electronic properties. They can be synthesized bottom-up in solution to obtain precise ribbon geometries. Here we investigate the optical…

The size-dependent electrical resistivity of single-layer graphene ribbons has been studied experimentally for ribbon widths from 16 nm to 320 nm. The experimental findings are that the resistivity follows a more dramatic trend than that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-24 Zhuocong Xiao , Colm Durkan

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