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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 study a transmission coefficient of graphene nanoribbons with a top gate which acts as an oblique barrier. Using a Green function method based on the Dirac-like equation, scattering among transverse modes due to the oblique barrier is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 J. H. Oh , D. Ahn

We report a numerical study on Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect and parity selective tunneling in pn junctions based on zigzag graphene nanoribbon rings. We find that when applying a magnetic field to the ring, the AB interference can reverse the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 Viet-Hung Nguyen , Yann-Michel Niquet , Philippe Dollfus

Extended defects in graphene, such as linear edges, break the translational invariance and can also have an impact on the symmetries specific to massless Dirac-like quasiparticles in this material. The paper examines the consequences of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-25 Grigory Tkachov , Martina Hentschel

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

We theoretically reveal the unusual features of the Josephson effect in a strained zigzag graphene nanoribbon with a small length relative to the superconducting coherence length and an arbitrary width. We find a step-wise variation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Leyla Majidi , Reza Asgari

Charge carriers in single and multilayered graphene systems behave as chiral particles due to the particular lattice symmetry of the crystal. We show that the interplay between the meta-material properties of graphene multilayers and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-07 B. Van Duppen , F. M. Peeters

We study the transport property for armchair-edge graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) with an adatom coupling to a semi-infinite quantum wire. Using the nonequilibrium Green's function approach with tight-binding approximation, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xiongwen Chen , Kehui Song , Benhu Zhou , Haiyan Wang , Guanghui Zhou

Graphene nanoribbons are semiconductor nanostructures with great potentials in nanoelectronics. Their realization particularly with small lateral dimensions below a few nanometers, however, remains challenging. Here we theoretically analyze…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Valentina Tozzini , Vittorio Pellegrini

We will present brief overview on the electronic and transport properties of graphene nanoribbons focusing on the effect of edge shapes and impurity scattering. The low-energy electronic states of graphene have two non-equivalent massless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Yositake Takane , Masayuki Yamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

We investigate the diffusive electron-transport properties of charge-doped graphene ribbons and nanoribbons with imperfect edges. We consider different regimes of edge scattering, ranging from wide graphene ribbons with (partially)…

We foretell a new pseudospin-dependent phenomenon in mono-layer graphene (MLG), which is numerically simulated \emph{via} an innovator nano-spintronic device. We proposed a novel theoretical procedure for describing the dynamics of Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 L. Diago-Cisneros , Eduardo Serna , I. Rodríguez Vargas , R. Pérez-Álvarez

We study crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) of electrons or holes in normal metal-superconductor-normal metal junctions and highlight some very strong effects of the underlying lattice. In particular, we demonstrate that for sharp interfaces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-17 François Crépin , Hans Hettmansperger , Patrik Recher , Björn Trauzettel

Spin-ordered electronic states in hydrogen-terminated zigzag nanographene give rise to magnetic quantum phenomena that have sparked renewed interest in carbon-based spintronics. Zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs), quasi one-dimensional…

The interplay between uniaxial strain and charging effects in zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNR) is investigated by using non-equilibrium Green's function formalism. The I-V characteristic curves and especially negative differential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 Maliheh Azadparvar , Hosein Cheraghchi

The tunneling of electrons and holes in quantum structures plays a crucial role in studying the transport properties of materials and the related devices. 8-Pmmn borophene is a new two-dimensional Dirac material, which hosts tilted Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 Zhan Kong , Jian Li , Yi Zhang , Shu-Hui Zhang , Jia-Ji Zhu

As the three-dimensional analogs of graphene, Weyl semimetals display signatures of chiral anomaly which arises from charge pumping between the lowest chiral Landau levels of the Weyl nodes in the presence of parallel electric and magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Chang-An Li

An armchair graphene ribbon switch has been designed based on the principle of the Klein paradox. The resulting switch displays an excellent on-off ratio performance. Anomalous tunneling phenomena are observed in our numerical simulations.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Q. W. Shi , Z. F. Wang , Jie Chen , H. X. Zheng , Qunxiang Li , Xiaoping Wang , Jinlong Yang , J. G. Hou

Explicit expressions of the band spectrum near the neutrality point for armchair and zigzag graphene ribbons and carbon nanotubes were derived based on a tight-binding macromolecule model of graphene. The obtained dispersion relations are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lyuba Malysheva , Alexander Onipko

Graphene nanoribbon quantum dot qubits have been proposed as promising candidates for quantum computing applications to overcome the spin-decoherence problems associated with typical semiconductor (e.g. GaAs) quantum dot qubits. We perform…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 Chih-Chieh Chen , Yia-Chung Chang