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We investigate the diffusive electron-transport properties of charge-doped graphene ribbons and nanoribbons with imperfect edges. We consider different regimes of edge scattering, ranging from wide graphene ribbons with (partially)…

The dispersion relation of the high energy optical \pi-plasmons of simple hexagonal intrinsic graphite was calculated within the self-consistent-field approximation. The plasmon frequency \omega_p is determined as functions of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Chih-Wei Chiu , Feng-Lin Shyu , Ming-Fa Lin , Godfrey Gumbs , Oleksiy Roslyak

Using density functional theory, we predict half-metallicity in edge hydrogenated armchair boron nitride nanoribbons (ABNNRs). The predicted spin polarization is analyzed in detail by calculating electronic and magnetic properties of these…

In this paper we investigate the influence of the next-nearest-neighbor coupling of tight-binding model of graphene on the spectrum of plasmon excitations. The nearest-neighbor tight-binding model was previously used to calculate plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-23 V. Kadirko , K. Ziegler , E. Kogan

We obtained numerical and closed-form analytic expressions for finite-temperature plasmon dispersion relations for intrinsic graphene in the presence of a finite energy gap in the energy spectrum. The calculations were carried out using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-20 Andrii Iurov , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , V. Silkin

We study the transport property for armchair-edge graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) with an adatom coupling to a semi-infinite quantum wire. Using the nonequilibrium Green's function approach with tight-binding approximation, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xiongwen Chen , Kehui Song , Benhu Zhou , Haiyan Wang , Guanghui Zhou

Interactions between localized plasmons in proximal nanostructures is a well-studied phenomenon. Here we explore plasmon plasmon interactions in connected extended systems. Such systems can now be easily produced using graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-07 Daniel Rodrigo , Tony Low , Damon B. Farmer , Hatice Altug , Phaedon Avouris

In this study, we analyze the band structure, the state characterization, and electronic transport of monolayer black phosphorus (phosphorene) zigzag nanoribbons (zPNRs) and armchair nanoribbons (aPNRs), using five-parameter tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-17 Esmaeil Taghizadeh Sisakht , Mohammad H. Zare , Farhad Fazileh

Electrons in graphene behave like relativistic Dirac particles which can reduce velocity of light by two orders of magnitude in the form of plasmon-polaritons. Here we show how these properties lead to a peculiar nonlinear plasmon response…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-02 Marinko Jablan

Strain fold-like deformations on armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) can be properly engineered in experimental setups, and could lead to a new controlling tool for gaps and transport properties. Here, we analyze the electronic properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 V. Torres , C. Leon , D. Faria , A. Latge

The conductance of metallic graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with single defects and weak disorder at their edges is investigated in a tight-binding model. We find that a single edge defect will induce quasi-localized states and consequently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-07 T. C. Li , Shao-Ping Lu

Accurate characterization of plasmonic materials' dispersion and efficiency remains a key challenge for next-generation nanophotonic devices. Here, we theoretically demonstrate that the plasmon dispersion relation at a metal-dielectric…

Conductance fluctuations produced by the presence of disorder in zigzag and armchair graphene nanoribbons are studied. We show that quantum transport in zigzag nanoribbons takes place via edge states which are exponentially localized, as in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ioannis Kleftogiannis , Ilias Amanatidis , Victor A. Gopar

We investigate the low-field phonon-limited mobility in armchair graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) using full-band electron and phonon dispersion relations. We show that lateral confinement suppresses the intrinsic mobility of GNRs to values…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Alessandro Betti , Gianluca Fiori , Giuseppe Iannaccone

We study analytically, based on the tight-binding model, the electronic band structure of armchair AA-stacked bilayer graphene nanoribbons (BLGNRs) in several regimes. We apply hard-wall boundary conditions to determine the discretion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 Yawar Mohammadi , Borhan Arghavani Nia

The intrinsic transport properties of zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) are investigated using first principles calculations. It is found that although all ZGNRs have similar metallic band structure, they show distinctly different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 Zuanyi Li , Haiyun Qian , Jian Wu , Bing-Lin Gu , Wenhui Duan

We present angle and frequency resolved optical extinction measurements to determine the dispersion relation of plasmon modes on Ag and Au nanoparticle chains with pitches down to 75 nm. The large splitting between transverse and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-08-21 A. F. Koenderink , R. de Waele , J. C. Prangsma , A. Polman

We have developed an analytical formulation to calculate the plasmon dispersion relation for a two-dimensional layer which is encapsulated within a narrow spatial gap between two bulk half-space plasmas. This is based on a solution of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Godfrey Gumbs , Norman J. M. Horing , Andrii Iurov , Dipendra Dahal

We determine, by means of density functional theory, the stability and the structure of graphene nanoribbon (GNR) edges in presence of molecules such as oxygen, water, ammonia, and carbon dioxide. As in the case of hydrogen-terminated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ari P. Seitsonen , A. Marco Saitta , Tobias Wassmann , Michele Lazzeri , Francesco Mauri

We present a theory to study gas molecules adsorption on armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) by applying the results of \emph{ab} \emph{initio} calculations to the single-band tight-binding approximation. In addition, the effect of edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-04 Alireza Saffarzadeh