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Electron transport in graphene under a laser-modulated barrier is studied in the presence of an energy gap, a scalar potential, and a uniaxial zigzag strain. The transfer-matrix approach is used with the boundary conditions to derive the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Hasna Chnafa , Clarence Cortes , David Laroze , Ahmed Jellal

We show that the low-energy electronic structure of graphene under a one-dimensional inhomogeneous magnetic field can be mapped into that of graphene under an electric field or vice versa. As a direct application of this transformation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-31 Liang Zheng Tan , Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie

The magnetic and spin transport properties of a carbon chain between two armchair graphene nanoribbon (AGNR) electrodes were studied using tight-binding Hamiltonian, mean-field Hubbard model and Landauer-Butikker formalism. The results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 R. Farghadan , M. Yoosefi

Coherent spin transport through bilayer graphene (BLG) nanoflakes sandwiched between two electrodes made of single-layer zigzag graphene nanoribbon was investigated by means of Landauer-Buttiker formalism. Application of a magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-23 R. Farghadan , M. Farekiyan

We numerically investigate the electronic transport properties between two mesoscopic graphene disks with a twist by employing the density functional theory coupled with non-equilibrium Green's function technique. By attaching two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yulei Han , Yafei Ren , Xinlong Dong , Junjie Zeng , Wei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao

Study on the electronic transport of a large scale two dimensional system by the transfer matrix method (TMM) based on the Sch\"{o}rdinger equation suffers from the numerical instability. To address this problem, we propose a renormalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 Miao Gao , Gui-Ping Zhang , Zhong-Yi Lu

We theoretically study the electron transport properties in a ferromagnetic/normal/ferromagnetic tunnel junction, which is deposited on the top of a topological surface. The conductance at the parallel (\textbf{P}) configuration can be much…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-03 Jian-Hui Yuan , Yan Zhang , Jian-Jun Zhang , Ze Cheng

Peculiar electronic properties of graphene, including the universal dc conductivity and the pseudodiffusive shot noise, are usually attributed to a small vicinity of the charge-neutrality point, away from which electron's effective mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Adam Rycerz

In this work, we have studied the spin-dependent ballistic transport and anomalous quantum tunnelling in Bilayer Graphene (BLG) hybrid connected to two Rashba-Zeeman (RZ) leads under an external electric biasing. We investigated the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-26 Saumen Acharjee , Arindam Boruah , Reeta Devi , Nimisha Dutta

Due to their unique electrical properties, graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) show great promise as the building blocks of novel electronic devices. However, these properties are strongly dependent on the geometry of the edges of the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-17 Patrick Hawkins , Milan Begliarbekov , Marko Zivkovic , Stefan Strauf , Christopher P. Search

Magnetic fields are often used for characterizing transport in nanoscale materials. Recent magnetotransport experiments have demonstrated that ballistic transport is possible in graphene antidot lattices (GALs). These experiments have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-16 Morten Rishøj Thomsen , Stephen Robert Power , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Thomas Garm Pedersen

Transport properties of 2D materials especially close to their boundary has received much attention after the successful fabrication of graphene and other fascinating materials afterwards. While most previous work is devoted to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 Fanbing Xia , Jian Wang

The spin dependent charge transport in zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) has been investigated by the nonequilibrium Green's function method combined with the density functional theory at the local spin density approximation. The current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ting-Ting Wu , Xue-Feng Wang , Ming-Xing Zhai , Hua Liu , Liping Zhou , Yong-Jin Jiang

Based on the time-dependent nonequilibrium Green's function method we investigate theoretically the time and spin-dependent transport through a graphene layer upon the application of a static bias voltage to the electrodes and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-23 Kai-He Ding , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Jamal Berakdar

Structural and electronic properties, including deformation, magnetic moment, Mulliken population, bond order as well as electronic transport properties, of zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) with Co adatom on hollow site are investigated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 G. P. Zhang , Xiaojie Liu , C. Z. Wang , Y. X. Yao , Jian Zhang , K. M. Ho

The intrinsic transport properties of zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) are investigated using first principles calculations. It is found that although all ZGNRs have similar metallic band structure, they show distinctly different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 Zuanyi Li , Haiyun Qian , Jian Wu , Bing-Lin Gu , Wenhui Duan

The spin-polarized electronic structure and half-metallicity of zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) with asymmetric edge terminations are investigated by using first principles calculations. It is found that compared with symmetric…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-15 Zuanyi Li , Bing Huang , Wenhui Duan

Numerical calculations have been performed to elucidate unconventional electronic transport properties in disordered nanographene ribbons with zigzag edges (zigzag ribbons). The energy band structure of zigzag ribbons has two valleys that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-07 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Yositake Takane , Masayuki Yamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

Carbon-based nanostructures and graphene, in particular, evoke a lot of interest as new promising materials for nanoelectronics and spintronics. One of the most important issue in this context is the impact of external electrodes on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-16 S. Krompiewski

The electronic properties of armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) can be significantly modified from semiconducting to metallic states, by applying a uniform perpendicular magnetic field (B-field). Here, we theoretically study the bandgap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-11 S. Bala Kumar , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan , Gengchiau Liang