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We study the charge and spin transport in a two terminal graphene nanoribbon (GNR) decorated with random Gold (Au) adatoms using a Kane-Mele model. Two commonly used GNRs, that is, the armchair graphene nanoribbon (AGNR) and the zigzag…

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We investigate the spin-polarized ballistic transport in a three-terminal Zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) device using a tight binding model, non-equilibrium Green function formalism within the Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker framework. We study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Niharika Tamuli , Saumen Acharjee

We report on the energy level alignment evolution of valence and conduction bands of armchair-oriented graphene nanoribbons (aGNR) as their band gap shrinks with increasing width. We use 4,4-dibromo-para-terphenyl as molecular precursor on…

The thermoelectric properties of armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) with array characteristics are investigated theoretically using the tight-binding model and Green's function technique. The AGNR structures with array characteristics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 David M T Kuo

We provide a theoretical study of the conductance response of systems based on graphene nanoribbon to the potential of a scanning probe. The study is based on the Landauer approach for the tight-binding Hamiltonian with an implementation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 Alina Mreńca , Krzysztof Kolasiński , Bartłomiej Szafran

Density functional study of strain effects on the electronic band structure and transport prop- erties of the graphene nanoribbons (GNR) is presented. We apply a uniaxial strain in the x (nearest-neighbor) and y (second nearest-neighbor)…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-06-25 R. Rasuli , H. Rafii-Tabar , A. Iraji zad

In this study, we investigate the charge transport properties of semiconducting armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) and heterostructures through their topological states (TSs), with a specific focus on the Coulomb blockade region. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 David M T Kuo

We investigate the influence of low-dimensionality and disorder in phonon transport in ultra-narrow armchair graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) using non-equilibrium Greens function (NEGF) simulation techniques. We specifically focus on how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 Hossein Karamitaheri , Mahdi Pourfath , Hans Kosina , Neophytos Neophytou

We theoretically investigate the spin-charge transport in two-terminal device of graphene nanoribbons in the presence of an uniform uniaxial strain, spin-orbit coupling, exchange field and smooth staggered potential. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-25 Ginetom S. Diniz , Marcos R. Guassi , Fanyao Qu

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

The evolution of electronic structure of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) as a function of the number of layers stacked together is investigated using \textit{ab initio} density functional theory (DFT) including interlayer van der Waals…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-28 Neerav Kharche , Yu Zhou , Kevin P. O'Brien , Swastik Kar , Saroj K. Nayak

In this comprehensive study, we undertake a thorough theoretical examination of the electronic subband structures within cove-edged zigzag graphene nanoribbons (CZGNRs) using the tight-binding model. These unique nanostructures arise from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 David M T Kuo

Motivated by recent advances in fabricating graphene nanostructures, we find that an electron can be trapped in Z-shaped graphene nanoconstriction with zigzag edges. The central section of the constriction operates as a single-level quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 Adam Rycerz

Motivated by recent experiments of successfully carving out stable carbon atomic chains from graphene, we investigate a device structure of a carbon chain connecting two zigzag graphene nanoribbons with highly tunable spin-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-17 Yuehua Xu , Bao-Ji Wang , San-Huang Ke

We report a first-principles study on electronic structures of the deformed armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs). The variation of the energy gap of AGNRs as a function of uniaxial strain displays a zigzag pattern, which indicates that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Lian Sun , Qunxiang Li , Hao Ren , Q. W. Shi , Jinlong Yang , J. G. Hou

We study narrow zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs), employing density functional theory (DFT) simulations and the tight-binding (TB) method. The main result of these calculations is the braiding of the conduction and valence bands,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 J. H. Correa , A. Pezo , M. S. Figueira

Using the tight-binding approach we study the electronic transport in a $\mathrm{MoS}_2$ zigzag ribbon with a spatially varying potential profile. Considering a ribbon with a smooth potential step in the Fermi energy regime where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 D. Gut , M. Prokop , D. Sticlet , M. P. Nowak

In this paper, we propose a combined modeling of molecular mechanics (MM) and the tight-binding (TB) approach, which enables us to study the effect of factors such as external local forces, constraints, and vacancy defects on electronic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Mahnoosh Rostami , Isa Ahmadi , Farhad Khoeini

Zigzag edges of neutral armchair-oriented Graphene Nano-Ribbons show states strongly localized at those edges. They behave as free radicals that can capture electrons during processing, increasing ribbon's stability. Thus, charging and its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-26 E. Louis , E. San-Fabian , G. Chiappe , J. A. Verges

We present self-consistent calculations of electron transport in graphene nanoconstrictions within the Hartree approximation. We consider suspended armchair ribbons with V-shaped constrictions having perfect armchair or zigzag edges as well…

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