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We study the transition from ballistic to diffusive and localized transport in graphene nanoribbons in the presence of binary disorder, which can be generated by chemical adsorbates or substitutional doping. We show that the interplay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-18 Petra Dietl , Georgo Metalidis , Dmitri Golubev , Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada , Henning Schomerus , Gerd Schön

We show how hydrogenation of graphene nanoribbons at small concentrations can open new venues towards carbon-based spintronics applications regardless of any especific edge termination or passivation of the nanoribbons. Density functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 D. Soriano , F. Muñoz-Rojas , J. Fernández-Rossier , J. J. Palacios

We calculate the local current density in pristine armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) with varying width, $N_\mathrm{C}$, employing a density-functional-theory-based ab initio transport formalism. We observe very pronounced current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-15 Jan Wilhelm , Michael Walz , Ferdinand Evers

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 theoretically consider, comparing with the existing experimental literature, the electrical conductivity of gated monolayer graphene as a function of carrier density, temperature, and disorder in order to assess the prospects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-28 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang

The transmission properties of armchair graphene nanoribbon junctions between graphene electrodes are investigated by means of first-principles quantum transport calculations. First the dependence of the transmission function on the size of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 C. Motta , D. Sánchez-Portal , M. I. Trioni

Charge carriers in graphene are chiral quasiparticles ("massless Dirac fermions"). Graphene provides therefore an amazing opportunity to study subtle quantum relativistic effects in condensed matter experiment. Here I review a theory of one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 M. I. Katsnelson

We present numerical studies of conduction in graphene nanoribbons with reconstructed edges based on the standard tight-binding model of the graphene and the extended Huckel model of the reconstructed defects. We performed atomic geometry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 S. Ihnatsenka , G. Kirczenow

We investigate the quantum transport dynamics of electrons in a multi-path Aharonov-Bohm interferometer comprising several parallel graphene nanoribbons. At low magnetic field strengths, the conductance displays a complex oscillatory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Cynthia I. Osuala , Zitao Tang , Stefan Strauf , Eui-Hyeok Yang , Chunlei Qu

The linear conductance spectrum of a metallic graphene junction formed by interconnecting two gapless graphene nanoribbons is calculated. A strong conductance suppression appears in the vicinity of the Dirac point. We found that such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Haidong Li , Lin Wang , Yisong Zheng

We study the electron transport through a graphene nanoribbon-superconductor junction. Both zigzag and armchair edge graphene nanoribbons are considered, and the effects of the magnetic field and disorder on the transport property are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

The recent discovery of methods to isolate graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of crystalline carbon, has raised the possibility of a new class of nano-electronics devices based on the extraordinary electrical transport and unusual physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-02 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Anthony Barker , Eva Y. Andrei

Graphene two-dimensional nature combined with today lithography allows to achieve nanoelectronics devices smaller than the Dirac electrons wavelength. Here we show that in these graphene subwavelength nanodevices the electronic quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-08 Pierre Darancet , Valerio Olevano , Didier Mayou

Based on the standard tight-binding model of the graphene $\pi$-band electronic structure, the extended H\"uckel model for the adsorbate and graphene carbon atoms, and spin splittings estimated from density functional theory (DFT), the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Alireza Saffarzadeh , George Kirczenow

We study the effect of a structural nanoconstriction on the coherent transport properties of otherwise ideal zig-zag-edged infinitely long graphene ribbons. The electronic structure is calculated with the standard one-orbital tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Muñoz-Rojas , D. Jacob , J. Fernández-Rossier , J. J. Palacios

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

The unconventional properties of graphene, with a massless Dirac band dispersion and large coherence properties, have raised a large interest for applications in nanoelectronics. In this work, we emphasize that graphene two dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-27 Pierre Darancet , Valerio Olevano , Didier Mayou

We study dc and ac transport along armchair graphene nanoribbons using the ${\bf k\cdot p}$ spectrum and eigenfunctions and general linear-response expressions for the conductivities. Then we contrast the results with those for transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 M. Zubair , M. Bahrami , P. Vasilopoulos

We study electronic quantum transport in graphene nanoribbon (GNR) networks on mesoscopic length scales. We focus on zigzag GNRs and investigate the conductance properties of statistical networks. To this end we use a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Tom Simon Rodemund , Fabian Teichert , Martina Hentschel , Jörg Schuster

We provide a broad review of fundamental electronic properties of two-dimensional graphene with the emphasis on density and temperature dependent carrier transport in doped or gated graphene structures. A salient feature of our review is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 S. Das Sarma , Shaffique Adam , E. H. Hwang , Enrico Rossi