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We study numerically the effects of edge and bulk disorder on the conductance of graphene nanoribbons. We compute the conductance suppression due to localization induced by edge scattering. We find that even for weak edge roughness,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Antonio H. Castro Neto , Caio H. Lewenkopf

Graphene has shown impressive properties for nanoelectronics applications including a high mobility and a width-dependent bandgap. Use of graphene in nanoelectronics would most likey be in the form of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yinxiao Yang , Raghunath Murali

Potential steps naturally develop in graphene near metallic contacts. We investigate the influence of these steps on the transport in graphene Field Effect Transistors. We give simple expressions to estimate the voltage-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Cayssol , B. Huard , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

A remarkable manifestation of the quantum character of electrons in matter is offered by graphene, a single atomic layer of graphite. Unlike conventional solids where electrons are described with the Schrodinger equation, electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Z. Q. Li , E. A. Henriksen , Z. Jiang , Z. Hao , M. C. Martin , P. Kim , H. L. Stormer , D. N. Basov

The conductance of ballistic graphene at the neutrality point is due to coherent electron tunneling between the leads, the so called pseudodiffusive regime. The conductance scales as function of the sample dimensions in the same way as in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 F. Guinea , M. I. Katsnelson

Properties of transport of molecular motors are investigated. A simplified model based on the concept of Brownian ratchets is applied. We analyze a stochastic equation of motion by means of numerical methods. The transport is systematically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-07 Lukasz Machura , Marcin Kostur , Jerzy Luczka

The study of the Brownian motion of a charged particle in electric and magnetic fields fields has many important applications in plasma and heavy ions physics, as well as in astrophysics. In the present paper we consider the electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-25 Tiberiu Harko , Gabriela Mocanu

We have studied temperature dependences of electron transport in graphene and its bilayer and found extremely low electron-phonon scattering rates that set the fundamental limit on possible charge carrier mobilities at room temperature. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-07 S. V. Morozov , K. S. Novoselov , M. I. Katsnelson , F. Schedin , D. C. Elias , J. A. Jaszczak , A. K. Geim

In this work, high field carrier transport in two dimensional (2D) graphene is investigated. Analytical models are applied to estimate the saturation currents in graphene, based on the high scattering rate of optical phonon emission.…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-09-13 Tian Fang , Aniruddha Konar , Huili Xing , Debdeep Jena

Microscopic corrugations are ubiquitous in graphene even when placed on atomically flat substrates. These result in random local strain fluctuations limiting the carrier mobility of high quality hBN-supported graphene devices. We present…

We propose a unified description of transport in graphene with adsorbates that fully takes into account localization effects and loss of electronic coherence due to inelastic processes. We focus in particular on the role of the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-28 Guy Trambly De Laissardière , Didier Mayou

We report on a theoretical study of the effects of time-dependent fields on electronic transport through graphene nanoribbon devices. The Fabry-P\'{e}rot interference pattern is modified by an ac gating in a way that depends strongly on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-10 Claudia G. Rocha , Luis E. F. Foa Torres , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

Numerical algorithms are proposed for simulating the Brownian dynamics of charged particles in an external magnetic field, taking into account the Brownian motion of charged particles, damping effect and the effect of magnetic field…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-05-21 L. J. Hou , Z. L. Mišković , A. Piel , P. K. Shukla

A method of regulating spin dynamics of the so-called magnetic graphene is analyzed. Magnetic moments can be incorporated into graphene flakes and graphene ribbons through defects, such as adatoms and vacancies. Local spins can also be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 V. I. Yukalov , V. K. Henner , T. S. Belozerova

Multistability is one of the most important phenomena in dynamical systems, e.g. bistability enables the implementation of logic gates and therefore computation. Recently multistability has attracted a greatly renewed interest related to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-01 J. Spiechowicz , J. Łuczka

We study the overdamped motion of a Brownian particle in a driven double-well system to understand various physical phenomena observed experimentally. These phenomena include hysteresis, stochastic resonance, and net unidirectional motion…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Mangal C. Mahato , A. M. Jayannavar

Motivated by the observation that electrons in graphene, in the hydrodynamic regime of transport, can be treated as a two-dimensional ultra-relativistic gas with very low shear viscosity, we examine the existence of the Rayleigh-B\'enard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-22 Oliver Furtmaier , Miller Mendoza , Ilya Karlin , Sauro Succi , Hans Jürgen Herrmann

This is an analytical study of magnetic fields effects on the conductance, the shot noise power, and the third charge-transfer cumulant for Aharonov-Bohm rings and Corbino disks in graphene. The two distinct physical mechanisms lead to very…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Adam Rycerz

All-carbon heterostructures have been produced recently via focused ion beam patterning of single layer graphene. Amorphized graphene is similar to a graphene sheet in which some hexagons are replaced by a combination of pentagonal,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-07 B Mortazavi , Z Fan , LFC Pereira , A Harju , T Rabczuk

Properties of phonons - quanta of the crystal lattice vibrations - in graphene have attracted strong attention of the physics and engineering communities. Acoustic phonons are the main heat carriers in graphene near room temperature while…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Denis L. Nika , Alexander A. Balandin