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We have investigated the effects of the interfacial bond arrangement on the electronic transport features of metal-nanotube-metal systems. The transport properties of finite, defect-free armchair and zigzag single-walled carbon nanotubes…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Ioannis Deretzis , Antonino La Magna

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 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 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

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

Graphene nanoribbons and constrictions are envisaged as fundamental components of future carbon-based nanoelectronic and spintronic devices. At nanoscale, electronic effects in these devices depend heavily on the dimensions of the active…

With nonequilibrium Green's function approach combined with density functional theory, we perform an ab initio calculation to investigate transport properties of graphene nanoribbon junctions self-consistently. Tight-binding approximation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Yin , Y. Y. Liang , F. Jiang , H. Chen , P. Wang , R. Note , H. Mizuseki , Y. Kawazoe

In this work we address the effects on the conductance of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) at which organic molecules are side-attached on the ribbon ends. For simplicity, only armchair (AGNRs) and zigzag (ZGNRs) nanoribbons are considered and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Rosales , M. Pacheco , Z. Barticevic , A. Latge , P. A. Orellana

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 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 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

We investigate charge transport in pentacene-graphene nanojunctions employing density functional theory (DFT) electronic structure calculations and the Landauer transport formalism. The results show that the unique electronic properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-26 Ivan A. Pshenichnyuk , Pedro B. Coto , Susanne Leitherer , Michael Thoss

Doping of semiconductor is necessary for various device applications. Exploiting chemistry at its reactive edges was shown to be an effective way to dope an atomically thin graphene nanoribbon (GNR) for realizing new devices in recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Yijian Ouyang , Stefano Sanvito , Jing Guo

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

We investigate localization effects in zigzag graphene nanoribbons with quasiperiodic Fibonacci-type edge extensions, accounting for electron-electron interactions. We employ a tight-binding model that includes first- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Diego B. Fonseca , Anderson L. R. Barbosa , Luiz Felipe C. Pereira

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) based T junctions were designed and studied in this paper. These junctions were made up of shoulders (zigzag GNRs) joined with stems (armchair GNRs). We demonstrated the intrinsic transport properties and…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-01-17 Fangping OuYang , Bing Huang , Zuanyi Li , Xiao jin , Hui Xu

We describe charging a quantum dot induced electrostatically within a semiconducting graphene nanoribbon by electrons or holes. The applied model is based on a tight-binding approach with the electron-electron interaction introduced by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 D. P. Żebrowski , B. Szafran

We present first-principles calculations of quantum transport in chemically doped graphene nanoribbons with a width of up to 4 nm. The presence of boron and nitrogen impurities is shown to yield resonant backscattering, whose features are…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-03-03 Blanca Biel , X. Blase , François Triozon , Stephan Roche

Two-dimensional graphene, carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons represent a novel class of low dimensional materials that could serve as building blocks for future carbon-based nanoelectronics. Although these systems share a similar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-05 Alessandro Cresti , Norbert Nemec , Blanca Biel , Gabriel Niebler , Francois Triozon , Gianaurelio Cuniberti , Stephan Roche

We performed a series of theoretical transport studies on Y-branch electron waveguides which are embedded in mid-size armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs). Non-equilibrium Greens function (NEGF) with different approximations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Vahid Mosallanejad , Kuei-Lin Chiu , Guo-ping Guo