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Graphene nanoribbons with armchair edges (AGNRs) have bandgaps that can be flexibly tuned via the ribbon width. A junction made of a narrower AGNR sandwiched between two wider AGNR leads was recently reported to possess two perfect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Suchun Li , Chee Kwan Gan , Young-Woo Son , Yuan Ping Feng , Su Ying Quek

The electronic nonlinear transport through ultra narrow graphene nanoribbons (sub-$10nm$) is studied. A stable region of negative differential resistance (NDR) appears in the I-V characteristic curve of {\it odd} zigzag graphene nanoribbons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-14 Hosein Cheraghchi

Here, we present a detailed study on low bias current-voltage (I-V) characteristic of graphene superlattice (GSL) resonant tunneling diode (RTD) with heterostructured substrate and series of grounded metallic planes placed over graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 S. M. Sattari Esfahlan , J. Fouladi Oskuei , S. Shojaei

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is drawing increasing attention as an insulator and substrate material to develop next generation graphene-based electronic devices. In this paper, we investigate the quantum transport in heterostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Y. Zhao , Z. Wan , X. Xu , S. R. Patil , U. Hetmaniuk , M. P. Anantram

Using non-equilibrium Green's function formalism, we investigate nonlinear transport and charging effects of gated graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with even number of zigzag chains. We find a negative differential resistance (NDR) over a wide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hosein Cheraghchi , Hanyieh Esmailzade

We theoretically investigate negative differential resistance (NDR) of massless and massive Dirac Fermions in double barrier resonant tunneling diodes based on sufficiently short and wide graphene strips. The current-voltage characteristics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Yu Song , Han-Chun Wu , Yong Guo

We simulate quantum transport between a graphene nanoribbon (GNR) and a single-walled carbon nanotube (CNT) where electrons traverse vacuum gap between them. The GNR covers CNT over a nanoscale region while their relative rotation is 90…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 Kamal K. Saha , Branislav K. Nikolic

We investigate the atomic-scale tunneling characteristics of bilayer graphene on silicon carbide using the scanning tunneling microscopy. The high-resolution tunneling spectroscopy reveals an unexpected negative differential resistance…

We have elaborately studied the electronic structure of 555-777 divacancy (DV) defected armchair edged graphene nanoribbon (AGNR) and transport properties of AGNR based two-terminal device constructed with one defected electrode and one N…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-27 Soubhik Chakrabarty , A. H. M. Abdul Wasey , Ranjit Thapa , G. P. Das

Nonlinear electrical properties, such as negative differential resistance (NDR), are essential in numerous electrical circuits, including memristors. Several physical origins have been proposed to lead to the NDR phenomena in semiconductor…

Down-scaling device dimensions to the nanometer range raises significant challenges to traditional device design, due to potential current leakage across nanoscale dimensions and the need to maintain reproducibility while dealing with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-03 Zhongcan Xiao , Chuanxu Ma , Jingsong Huang , Liangbo Liang , Wenchang Lu , Kunlun Hong , Bobby G. Sumpter , An-Ping Li , J. Bernholc

Using density functional theory and non-equilibrium Greens function technique, we performed theoretical investigations on the transport properties of several ZAZ SiNRs junctions,a similar kind of silicene molecules junction combined by…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-07 Dace Zha , Changpeng Chen , Jinping Wu

In this paper, we report on the controllable negative differential resistance (NDR) in a proposed planar graphene superlattice structure. High value of peak to valley ratio (PVR) is predicted. This is significant because of appearance of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-02 S. M. Sattari-Esfahlan , J. Fouladi-Oskuei , S. Shojaei

Negative differential resistance (NDR) with room temperature peak-valley-ratio of 8 has been observed in a ballistic field-effect-transistor (FET) based on graphene, having an oblique top gate. Graphene FETs with a top gate inclination…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mircea Dragoman , Adrian Dinescu , Daniela Dragoman

Ballistic quantum transport calculations based on the non-equilbrium Green's function formalism show that field-effect transistor devices made from chevron-type graphene nanoribbons (CGNRs) could exhibit negative differential resistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Samuel Smith , Juan-Pablo Llinás , Jeffrey Bokor , Sayeef Salahuddin

Field effect transistors with channels made of graphene layer(s) were explored. The graphene layer(s) contacted a distributed array of well-separated semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). The dots were embedded in nano-structured hole-array;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-26 Samarth Trivedi , Haim Grebel

The nonlinear spin-dependent transport properties in zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) edge doped by an atom of group III and V elements are studied systematically using density functional theory combined with non-equilibrium Greens…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-01 C. Jiang , X. F. Wang , M. X. Zhai

We investigate the transport properties of pristine zigzag-edged borophene nanoribbons (ZBNRs) of different widths, using the fist-principles calculations. We choose ZBNRs with widths of 5 and 6 as odd and even widths. The differences of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-14 Jiayi Liu , Changpeng Chen , Lu Han , Ziqing Zhu , Jinping Wu

Negative differential thermal resistance (NDTR) in approximate graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) is investigated from one dimension to three dimensions by using classical molecular dynamics method. For single-layer GNRs, NDTR can not be observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Bao-quan Ai , Wei-rong Zhong , Bambi Hu

The interplay between uniaxial strain and charging effects in zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNR) is investigated by using non-equilibrium Green's function formalism. The I-V characteristic curves and especially negative differential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 Maliheh Azadparvar , Hosein Cheraghchi
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