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The low-energy spectrum of graphene nanoribbons with armchair edges (armchair nanoribbons) is described as the superposition of two non-equivalent Dirac points of graphene. In spite of the lack of well-separated two valley structures, the…

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Understanding how the mechanical behavior of materials deviates at the nanoscale from the macroscopically established concepts is a key challenge of particular importance for graphene, given the complex interplay between its nanoscale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-26 Levente Tapaszto , Traian Dumitrica , Sung J. Kim , Peter Nemes-Incze , Chanyong Hwang , Laszlo P. Biro

Zigzag edges of graphene nanostructures host localized electronic states that are predicted to be spin-polarized. However, these edge states are highly susceptible to edge roughness and interaction with a supporting substrate, complicating…

We report on the fabrication and electrical characterization of both single layer graphene micron-sized devices and nanoribbons on a hexagonal boron nitride substrate. We show that the micron-sized devices have significantly higher mobility…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-06 Dominik Bischoff , Tobias Krähenmann , Susanne Dröscher , Michelle A. Gruner , Clément Barraud , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin

We study the existence of edge modes in gapped Moir\'e superlattices in graphene monolayer ribbons. We find that the superlattice bands acquire finite Chern numbers, which lead to a Valley Hall Effect. The presence of dispersive edge modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Rory Brown , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

We present an analytical description of pi electrons of a finite size bilayer graphene within a framework of the tight-binding model. The bilayered structures considered here are characterized by a rectangular geometry and have a finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 J. Ruseckas , G. Juzeliunas , I. V. Zozoulenko

We predict enhanced electron-hole superfluidity in two coupled electron-hole armchair-edge terminated graphene nanoribbons separated by a thin insulating barrier. In contrast to graphene monolayers, the multiple subbands of the nanoribbons…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-05-10 M. Zarenia , A. Perali , F. M. Peeters , D. Neilson

Results of quantum mechanical simulations of the influence of edge disorder on transport in graphene nanoribbon metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) are reported. The addition of edge disorder significantly reduces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-10 D. Basu , M. J. Gilbert , L. F. Register , A. H. MacDonald , S. K. Banerjee

Nanometer-scale graphene objects are attracting much research interest because of newly emerging properties originating from quantum confinement effects. We present Raman spectroscopy studies of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) which are known…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-23 Sunmin Ryu , Janina Maultzsch , Melinda Y. Han , Philip Kim , Louis E. Brus

Graphene nanoribbons are one-dimensional stripes of graphene with width- and edge-structure-dependent electronic properties. They can be synthesized bottom-up in solution to obtain precise ribbon geometries. Here we investigate the optical…

Intrinsic bilayer graphene is a gapless semimetal. Under the application of a bias field it becomes a semiconductor with a direct band gap that is proportional to the applied field. Under a layer-asymmetric strain (where the upper layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-04 J. A. Crosse

Graphene nanoribbons are the flimsiest material systems in the world, and they get readily distorted. Distortion by twisting, for one, is important because it couples to ribbon's electronic properties. In this Letter, using simulations with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-07 Pekka Koskinen

The deformation and disintegration of a graphene nanoribbon under external electrostatic fields are investigated by first principle quantum mechanical calculations to establish its stability range. The zigzag edges terminated by various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Haiming Huang , Zhibing Li , H. J. Kreuzer , Weiliang Wang

Graphene has recently been shown to possess giant nonlinearity; however, the utility of this nonlinearity is limited due to high losses and small interaction volume. We show that by performing waveguide engineering to graphene's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-19 Kelvin J. A. Ooi , Lay Kee Ang , Dawn T. H. Tan

As a particular application of the earlier proposed model of graphene as a macromolecule, we found the exact analytical expression of dispersion relation for the band of edge states in graphene zigzag ribbons. This band is often referred to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-08 Lyuba Malysheva , Alexander Onipko

We investigate theoretically the performance advantages of all-graphene nanoribbon field-effect transistors (GNRFETs) whose channel and source/drain (contact) regions are patterned monolithically from a two-dimensional single sheet of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-14 Dincer Unluer , Frank Tseng , Avik W. Ghosh , Mircea R. Stan

We present Raman spectroscopy measurements of non-etched graphene nanoribbons, with widths ranging from 15 to 160 nm, where the D-line intensity is strongly dependent on the polarization direction of the incident light. The extracted edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-10 B. Terrés , S. Reichardt , C. Neumann , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , C. Stampfer

We show how hydrogenation of graphene nanoribbons at small concentrations can open new venues towards carbon-based spintronics applications regardless of any especific edge termination or passivation of the nanoribbons. Density functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 D. Soriano , F. Muñoz-Rojas , J. Fernández-Rossier , J. J. Palacios

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