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Transport measurements have revealed several exotic electronic properties of graphene. The possibility to influence the electronic structure and hence control the conductivity by adsorption or doping with adatoms is crucial in view of…

Electron transport in graphene under a laser-modulated barrier is studied in the presence of an energy gap, a scalar potential, and a uniaxial zigzag strain. The transfer-matrix approach is used with the boundary conditions to derive the…

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The Landauer-B\"uttiker conductivity of arbitrary uniaxial spatially dependent strain in an armchair graphene nanoribbon is studied. Due to the uniaxial character of the strain, the corresponding transfer matrix can be reduced to a product…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Abdiel E. Champo , Pedro Roman-Taboada , Gerardo G. Naumis

We have revealed the decisive role of grain-boundary-induced strain fields in electron scattering in polycrystalline graphene. To this end, we have formulated the model based on Boltzmann transport theory which properly takes into account…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-24 S. E. Krasavin , V. A. Osipov

We study the effects of uniaxial strains on the transport properties of the graphene nanoribbons(GNRs) connected with two metallic leads in heterojunctions, using the transfer matrix method. Two typical GNRs with zigzag and armchair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jing Wang , Guiping Zhang , Fei Ye , Xiaoqun Wang

The band structures of strained graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are examined by a tight binding Hamiltonian that is directly related to the type and strength of strains. Compared to the two-dimensional graphene whose band gap remains close to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-20 Yang Lu , Jing Guo

The carriers in graphene tuned close to the Dirac point envisage signatures of the strongly interacting fluid and are subject to hydrodynamic description. The important question is whether strong disorder induces the metal-insulator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Marek Rogatko , Karol I. Wysokinski

We study the effects of the long-range disorder potential and warping on the conductivity and mobility of graphene ribbons using the Landauer formalism and the tight-binding p-orbital Hamiltonian. We demonstrate that as the length of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. W. Klos , A. A. Shylau , I. V. Zozoulenko , Hengyi Xu , T. Heinzel

We induced periodic biaxial tensile strain in polycrystalline graphene by wrapping it over a substrate with repeating pillar-like structures with a periodicity of 600 nm. Using Raman spectroscopy, we determined to have introduced biaxial…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-09 Marjan Aslani , C. Michael Garner , Suhas Kumar , Dennis Nordlund , Piero Pianetta , Yoshio Nishi

By means of numerical simulation, we study in this work the effects of uniaxial strain on transport properties of strained graphene heterojunctions and explore the possibility to achieve good performance of graphene transistors using these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-03 Viet Hung Nguyen , Huy Viet Nguyen , Philippe Dollfus

We study the the transport properties of multiterminal ballistic graphene samples, concentrating on the conductance matrix, fluctuations and cross-correlations. Far away from Dirac point, the current is carried mostly by propagating modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-03 M. A. Laakso , T. T. Heikkilä

In this Letter, we investigate the strain-induced band-gap modulation of both armchair and zigzag graphane nanoribbons based on the first-principles calculations. Within the elastic range, the band gap changes linearly with the uniaxial…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-29 Yan Zhang , Xiaojun Wu , Qunxiang Li , Jinlong Yang

Extensive investigations on the Moir\'e magic-angle have been conducted in twisted bilayer graphene, unlocking the mystery of unconventional superconductivity and insulating states. In analog to magic angle, here we demonstrate the new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Qingxiang Ji , Bohan Li , Johan Christensen , Changguo Wang , Muamer Kadic

Strain engineering is one of the key technologies for using graphene as an electronic device: the strain-induced pseudo-gauge field reflects Dirac electrons, thus opening the so-called conduction gap. Since strain accumulates in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Masahiko Hayashi , Hideo Yoshioka , Hikari Tomori , Akinobu Kanda

We theoretically reveal the unusual features of the Josephson effect in a strained zigzag graphene nanoribbon with a small length relative to the superconducting coherence length and an arbitrary width. We find a step-wise variation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Leyla Majidi , Reza Asgari

Confinement of electrons in graphene to make devices has proven to be a challenging task. Electrostatic methods fail because of Klein tunneling, while etching into nanoribbons requires extreme control of edge terminations, and bottom-up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Y. Wu , D. Zhai , C. Pan , B. Cheng , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , N. Sandler , M. Bockrath

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

We investigate the effects of homogeneous and inhomogeneous deformations and edge disorder on the conductance of gated graphene nanoribbons. Under increasing homogeneous strain the conductance of such devices initially decreases before it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Diana A. Cosma , Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski , Henning Schomerus , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

The interaction between a graphene layer and a hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) substrate induces lateral displacements and strains in the graphene layer. The displacements lead to the appearance of commensurate regions and the existence of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 Pablo San-Jose , Ángel Gutiérrez , Mauricio Sturla , Francisco Guinea

We study tunneling across a strain-induced superlattice in graphene. In studying the effect of applied strain on the low-lying Dirac-like spectrum, both a shift of the Dirac points in reciprocal space, and a deformation of the Dirac cones…

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