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Graphene nanoribbons with armchair edges (AGNRs) have bandgaps that can be flexibly tuned via the ribbon width. A junction made of a narrower AGNR sandwiched between two wider AGNR leads was recently reported to possess two perfect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Suchun Li , Chee Kwan Gan , Young-Woo Son , Yuan Ping Feng , Su Ying Quek

Graphene is an ideal material for fabricating atomically thin nanometre spaced electrodes. Recently, carbon-based nanoelectrodes have been employed to create single-molecule transistors and phase change memory devices. In spite of the…

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 demonstrate high-frequency mechanical resonators in ballistic graphene p-n junctions. Fully suspended graphene devices with two bottom gates exhibit ballistic bipolar behavior after current annealing. We determine the graphene mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 Minkyung Jung , Peter Rickhaus , Simon Zihlmann , Alexander Eichler , Peter Makk , Christian Schönenberger

Unimolecular current rectifiers are fundamental building blocks in organic electronics. Rectifying behavior has been identified in numerous organic systems due to electron-hole asymmetries of orbital levels interfaced by a metal electrode.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Niklas Friedrich , Jingcheng Li , Iago Pozo , Diego Peña , José Ignacio Pascual

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

Graphene ribbons with a suspended proof mass for nanomechanical systems have been rarely studied. Here, we report three types of nanomechanical devices consisting of graphene ribbons (two ribbons, four ribbons-cross and four…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Xuge Fan , Chang He , Jie Ding , Sayedeh Shirin Afyouni Akbari , Wendong Zhang

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

By considering the direction of charge carriers and the conservation of probablity current the transmission properties of graphene Zener tunnelling nano-devices were obtained. The scattering properties were then used with an adaptation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-30 R. D. Y. Hills , F. V. Kusmartsev

Graphene as a one-atom-thick platform for infrared metamaterial plays an important role in optical science and engineering. Here we study the unique properties of some plasmonic waveguides based on graphene nano-ribbon. It is found that a…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-29 S. He , X. Zhang , Y. He

Two types of graphene nanoribbons: (a) potassium-split graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), and (b) oxidative unzipped and chemically converted graphene nanoribbons (CCGNRs) were investigated for their magnetic properties using the combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. S. Rao , S. Narayana Jammalamadaka , A. Stesmans , V. V. Moshchalkov , J. van Tol , D. V. Kosynkin , A. Higginbotham , J. M. Tour

The atomic structure, stacking sequences and electronic structure of folded graphene nanoribbons (FGNRs) are investigated by first-principles calculations. It reveals that the common configurations of all FGNRs are racket-like structures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Wenjin Yin , Yuee Xie , Li-Min Liu , Yuanping Chen , Ru-Zhi Wang , Xiao-Lin Wei , Leo Lau

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) synthesized using a bottom-up technique potentially enable future electronic devices owing to the tunable electronic structures depending on the well-defined width and edge geometry. For instance, armchair-edged…

We calculate the phonons in a graphene nanoconstriction(GNC) in the presence of a high current density. The Joule-heating, current-induced forces, and coupling to electrode phonons is evaluated using first principles nonequilibrium DFT-NEGF…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Tue Gunst , Jing-Tao Lü , Per Hedegård , Mads Brandbyge

Negative differential thermal resistance (NDTR) in approximate graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) is investigated from one dimension to three dimensions by using classical molecular dynamics method. For single-layer GNRs, NDTR can not be observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Bao-quan Ai , Wei-rong Zhong , Bambi Hu

The speed of silicon-based transistors has reached an impasse in the recent decade, primarily due to scaling techniques and the short-channel effect. Conversely, graphene (a revolutionary new material possessing an atomic thickness) has…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-03 K. C. Yung , W. M. Wu , M. P. Pierpoint , F. V. Kusmartsev

The groundbreaking works in graphene and graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) over the past decade, and the recent discovery of borophene draw immediate attention to the underexplored borophene nanoribbons (BNRs). We herein report a density…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-24 Fanchen Meng , Xiangnan Chen , Songsong Sun , Jian He

Graphene nanoribbons with perfect edges are predicted to exhibit interesting electronic and spintronic properties, notably quantum-confined bandgaps and magnetic edge states. However, graphene nanoribbons produced by lithography have, to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Xinran Wang , Yijian Ouyang , Liying Jiao , Hailiang Wang , Liming Xie , Justin Wu , Jing Guo , Hongjie Dai

Bottom-up approaches allow the production of ultra-narrow and atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), with electronic and optical properties controlled by the specific atomic structure. Combining Raman spectroscopy and ab-initio…

We theoretically study current dynamics of graphene nanoribbons subject to bias dc and ac driven fields. We showed that graphene nanoribbons exhibit negative high-harmonic differential conductivity. Negative differential conductivity…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-18 M. Rabiu , S. Y. Mensah , S. S. Abukari