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After more than a decade of extensive research on the magnetic order triggered by lattice defects in a wide range of nominally non-magnetic materials, we report its application in a spintronic device. This device is based on a spin-filter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-10 L. Botsch , I. Lorite , Y. Kumar , P. Esquinazi , T. Michalsky , J. Zajadacz , K. Zimmer

We simulate the electron transport in vertical bi-layer nanowire which can be fabricated in molecular beam epitaxy process with lateral confinement potential formed by means of cleaved overgrowth or surface oxidization methods giving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 T. Chwiej

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are promising components in future nanoelectronics due to the large mobility of graphene electrons and their tunable electronic band gap in combination with recent experimental developments of on-surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-03 Pedro Brandimarte , Mads Engelund , Nick Papior , Aran Garcia-Lekue , Thomas Frederiksen , Daniel Sánchez-Portal

We demonstrate that due to their spin-orbit interaction carbon nanotube cross-junctions have attractive spin projective properties for transport. First, we show that the junction can be used as a versatile spin filter as a function of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-12 Francesco Mazza , Bernd Braunecker , Patrik Recher , Alfredo Levy Yeyati

In contrast to the well recognized transverse-electric-field-induced half-metallicity in zigzag graphene nanoribbons, here we demonstrate by first-principles calculations that zigzag graphene nanoribbons sandwiched between hexagonal boron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-15 Jin Yu , Wanlin Guo

The manipulation of the electron spin degree of freedom is at the core of the spintronics paradigm, which offers the perspective of reduced power consumption, enabled by the decoupling of information processing from net charge transfer.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-16 Paolo Michetti , Patrik Recher , Giuseppe Iannaccone

Magnetic carbon nanostructures are currently under scrutiny for a wide spectrum of applications. Here, we theoretically investigate armchair graphene nanoribbons patterned with asymmetric edge extensions consisting of laterally fused…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-11 Michele Pizzochero , Efthimios Kaxiras

Spin-polarized transport through a band-gap-matched ZnSe/Zn_{1-x}Mn_{x} Se/ZnSe/Zn_{1-x}Mn_{x}Se/ZnSe multilayer structure is investigated. The resonant transport is shown to occur at different energies for different spins owing to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su

We report a real-time first-principles study of ultrafast spin injection in a WSe$_2$-graphene heterobilayer under circularly polarized laser irradiation, using time-dependent density functional theory. Contrary to conventional…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-24 Shunsuke Yamada , Arqum Hashmi , Tomohito Otobe

We study theoretically the coherent electron focusing in graphene nanoribbons. Using semiclassical and numerical tight binding calculations we show that perfect armchair edges give rise to equidistant peaks in the focusing spectrum. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-22 Peter Rakyta , Andor Kormanyos , Jozsef Cserti , Pekka Koskinen

We analyze theoretically 4-terminal electronic devices composed of two crossed graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and show that they can function as beam splitters or mirrors. These features are identified for electrons in the low-energy region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Sofia Sanz , Pedro Brandimarte , Géza Giedke , Daniel Sánchez-Portal , Thomas Frederiksen

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…

Spin-dependent electron transport in a periodically stubbed quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is studied via the nonequilibrium Green's function method combined with the Landauer-Buttiker formalism. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 Xianbo Xiao , Zhaoxia Chen , Zhiming Rao , Wenjie Nie , Guanghui Zhou

Within the field of spintronics major efforts are directed towards developing applications for spin-based transport devices made fully out of two-dimensional (2D) materials. In this work we present an experimental realization of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Alexey A. Kaverzin , Talieh S. Ghiasi , Avalon H. Dismukes , Xavier Roy , Bart J. van Wees

We investigate the spin-resolved transport in a two-terminal zigzag graphene nanoribbon device with two independent gate induced Rashba spin-orbit coupling regions and in the presence of strain. By employing a recursive Green's function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 G. S. Diniz , E. Vernek , F. M. Souza

We investigate the coupling of spin and thermal currents as a means to rise the thermoelectric efficiency of nanoscale graphene devices. We consider nanostructures composed of overlapping graphene nanoribbons with ferromagnetic contacts in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Leonor Chico , P. A. Orellana , L. Rosales , M. Pacheco

We examine the electronic structure of recently fabricated in-plane heterojunctions of zigzag graphene nanoribbons embedded in hexagonal boron nitride. We focus on hitherto unexplored interface configurations in which both edges of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Michele Pizzochero , Nikita V. Tepliakov , Johannes Lischner , Arash A. Mostofi , Efthimios Kaxiras

Realizing controllable room-temperature ferromagnetism in carbon-based materials is one of recent prospects. The magnetism in graphene nanostructures reported previously is mostly formed near the vacancies, zigzag edges, or impurities by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Wei-Jian Li , Shi-Chang Xiao , Da-Fei Sun , Chang-De Gong , Shun-Li Yu , Yuan Zhou

The influence of carrier density on magnetism in a zigzag graphene nanoribbon is studied in a $\pi$-orbital Hubbard-model mean-field approximation. Departures from half-filling alter the magnetism, leading to states with charge density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-31 J. Jung , A. H. MacDonald

Motivated by recent experimental results for zero-line modes (ZLMs) in a bilayer graphene system [Nature Nanotechnol. 11, 1060 (2016)], we systematically studied the influence of a magnetic field on ZLMs and demonstrated the physical origin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Ke Wang , Tao Hou , Yafei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao