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We have studied zigzag and armchair graphene nano ribbons (GNRs), described by the Hubbard Hamiltonian using quantum many body configuration interaction methods. Due to finite termination, we find that the bipartite nature of the graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Sudipta Dutta , S. Lakshmi , Swapan K. Pati

The one-dimensional side gate based on graphene edges shows a significant capability of reducing the channel length of field-effect transistors, further increasing the integration density of semiconductor devices. The nano-scale electric…

In order to study a magnetic principle of carbon based materials, multiple spin state of zigzag edge modified graphene molecules are analyzed by the first principle density functional theory to select suitable modification element. Radical…

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We investigate new properties of the Dirac electrons in the finite graphene sample under perpendicular magnetic field that emerge when an in-plane electric bias is also applied. The numerical analysis of the Hofstadter spectrum and of the…

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The effect of a weak uniform magnetic field on the electronic structure of slightly deformed fullerene molecules is studied within the continuum field-theory model. It is shown that fine structure of the electronic energy spectrum is very…

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We find clear signatures of spin-dependent negative differential resistance in compound systems comprising a graphene nanoribbon and a set of ferromagnetic insulator strips deposited on top of it. The periodic array of ferromagnetic strips…

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We experimentally investigate the charge induction mechanism across gated, narrow, ballistic graphene devices with different degrees of edge disorder. By using magnetoconductance measurements as the probing technique, we demonstrate that…

We study edge state magnetism in graphene nanostructures using a mean field theory of the Hubbard model. We investigate how the magnetism of the zigzag edges of graphene is affected by the presence of other types of terminating edges and…

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We investigate the effect of edge defects (vacancies) and impurities (substitutional dopants) on the robustness of spin-polarization in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with zigzag edges, using density-functional-theory calculations. We found…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Bing Huang , Feng Liu , Jian Wu , Bing-Lin Gu , Wenhui Duan

The tunable magnetism at graphene edges with lengths of up to 48 unit cells is analyzed by an exact diagonalization technique. For this we use a generalized interacting one-dimensional model which can be tuned continuously from a limit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-05-26 David J. Luitz , Fakher F. Assaad , Manuel J. Schmidt

We study the conductance of an interconnect between two graphene leads formed by a single-atom carbon chain. Its dependence on the chemical potential and the number of atoms in the chain is qualitatively different from that in the case of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-12 Wei Chen , A. V. Andreev , G. F. Bertsch

Since their discovery, graphene-based systems represent an exceptional playground to explore the emergence of peculiar quantum effects. The present paper focuses on the anomalous appearence of strong infrared phonon resonances in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-04 E. Cappelluti , L. Benfatto , M. Manzardo , A. B. Kuzmenko

The electronic energy gap and total dipole moment of chemically functionalized hexagonal and triangular graphene quantum dots are investigated by the density functional theory. It has been found that the energy gap can be efficiently tuned…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Hazem Abdelsalam , Hanan Elhaes , Medhat A. Ibrahim

We report a theoretical study suggesting a novel type of electronic switching effect, driven by the geometrical reconstruction of nanoscale graphene-based junctions. We considered junction struc- tures which have alternative metastable…

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Boundaries and edges of a two dimensional system lower its symmetry and are usually regarded, from the point of view of charge transport, as imperfections. Here we present a first study of the behavior of graphene plasmons in a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-15 Hugen Yan , Zhiqiang Li , Xuesong Li , Wenjuan Zhu , Phaedon Avouris , Fengnian Xia

We present a practical scheme to separate the contributions of the electric quadrupole-like and the magnetic dipole-like effects to the forbidden second order optical nonlinear response of graphene, and give analytic expressions for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-08 J. L. Cheng , N. Vermeulen , J. E. Sipe

Graphene has vast promising applications on the nanoelectronics and spintronics because of its unique magnetic and electronic properties. Making use of an ab initio spin-polarized density functional theory, implemented by the method of…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-26 Zongguo Wang , Shaojing Qin , Chuilin Wang

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

One of the primary objectives in molecular nano-spintronics is to manipulate the spin states of organic molecules with a d-electron center, by suitable external means. In this letter, we demonstrate by first principles density functional…

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