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The thermal conductance in graphene nanoribbon with a vacancy or silicon point defect (substitution of C by Si atom) is investigated by non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism combined with first-principle calculations…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-31 Jin-Wu Jiang , Bing-Shen Wang , Jian-Sheng Wang

This study delves into the thermoelectric properties of armchair black phosphorene nanoribbons while considering the presence of line edge roughness. Employing the tight-binding method in conjunction with non-equilibrium Green's function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Ebrahim Pishevar , Hossein Karamitaheri

The Nernst effect, a transverse thermoelectric phenomenon, has attracted significant attention for its potential in energy conversion, thermoelectrics, and spintronics. However, achieving high performance and versatility at low temperatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Gabriele Pasquale , Zhe Sun , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Andras Kis

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 the manifestation of the Nernst effect in the Corbino disk subjected to the normal external magnetic field and to the radial temperature gradient. The Corbino geometry offers a precious opportunity for the direct measurement of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-30 A. V. Kavokin , B. L. Altshuler , S. G. Sharapov , P. S. Grigoryev , A. A. Varlamov

The longitudinal spin Seebeck effect is measured on the ferromagnetic insulator Fe$_3$O$_4$ with the ferromagnetic metal Co$_{0.2}$Fe$_{0.6}$B$_{0.2}$ (CoFeB) as the spin detector. By using a non-magnetic spacer material between the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-09 Stephen M. Wu , Jason Hoffman , John E. Pearson , Anand Bhattacharya

A thermoelectric voltage is induced in a junction, constituted of two dissimilar materials under a temperature gradient. Similarly, a thermosize voltage is expected to be induced in a junction made by the same material but having different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Alhun Aydin , Jonas Fransson , Altug Sisman

We study electronic transport in graphene under the influence of a transversal magnetic field $\f{B}(\f{r})=B(x)\f{e}_z$ with the asymptotics $B(x\to\pm\infty)=\pm B_0$, which could be realized via a folded graphene sheet in a constant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-18 Friedemann Queisser , Ralf Schützhold

Thermoelectric properties of Graphene Nanoribbons doped by magnetic impurities Fe and Co are carried out in room temperature. We report on a study of the band structure dependent properties such as electrical conductivity, charge of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Elham Rahmati

We investigate the electronic, thermal, and optical characteristics of graphene like SiC$_x$ structure using model calculations based on density functional theory. The change in the energy bandgap can be tuned by the Si atomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Gullan Ahmed Mohammed , Hunar Omar Rashid , Vidar Gudmundsson

The Nernst effect is known to be a sensitive probe of the scattering mechanisms. Large Nernst effects, a decade ago a topic mainly in vortex dynamics in superconductors, have recently attracted interest in correlated systems like cuprate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-11-22 Janik Kailasvuori

We calculate the phonon-drag contribution to the transverse (Nernst) thermoelectric power $S_{yx}$ in a bismuth single crystal subjected to a quantizing magnetic field. The calculated heights of the Nernst peaks originating from the hole…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-08-24 Mari Matsuo , Akira Endo , Naomichi Hatano , Hiroaki Nakamura , Ryoen Shirasaki , Ko Sugihara

Using a first principles density functional electronic structure method, we study the energy gaps and magnetism in bilayer graphene nanoribbons as a function of the ribbon width and the strength of an external electric field between the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Bhagawan Sahu , Hongki Min , Allan. H. MacDonald , Sanjay K. Banerjee

Thermoelectric materials can recover electrical energy from waste heat and vice versa, which are of great significance in green energy harvesting and solid state refrigerator. The thermoelectric figure of merit (zT) quantifies the energy…

The electronic and magnetic properties of zigzag graphene nanoribbons with asymmetric notches along their edges are investigated by first principle density functional theory calculations. It is found that the electronic and magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-14 Guang-Yao Song , Qing-Hong Yuan , Wen-Xin Hu , De-Yan Sun

We propose a natural way to create quantum-confined regions in graphene in a system that allows large-scale device integration. We show, using first-principles calculations, that a single graphene layer on a trenched region of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-11 Matheus P. Lima , A. R. Rocha , Antônio J. R. da Silva , A. Fazzio

The calculated electron mobility for a graphene nanoribbon as a function of applied electric field has been found to have a large threshold field for entering a nonlinear transport regime. This field depends on the lattice temperature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , O. Roslyak

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

Graphene nanoribbons (GNR) in mutually perpendicular electric and magnetic fields are shown to exhibit dramatic changes in their band structure and electron transport properties. A strong electric field across the ribbon induces multiple…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Oleksiy Roslyak , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

We developed a unified mesoscopic transport model for graphene nanoribbons, which combines the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism with the real-space {\pi}-orbital model. Based on this model, we probe the spatial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-13 S. Bala Kumar , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan , Gengchiau Liang