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The current flow along the boundary of graphene stripes in a perpendicular magnetic field is studied theoretically by the nonequilibrium Green's function method. In the case of specular reflections at the boundary, the Hall resistance shows…

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The recent fabrication of graphene nanoribbon (GNR) field-effect transistors poses a challenge for first-principles modeling of carbon nanoelectronics due to many thousand atoms present in the device. The state of the art quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-28 Denis A. Areshkin , Branislav K. Nikolic

We review the description and modeling of transport phenomena among the electron systems coupled via scalar or vector photons. It consists of three parts. The first part is about scalar photons, i.e., Coulomb interactions. The second part…

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We demonstrate that the current flow in graphene can be guided on atomically thin current pathways by means of the engineering of Kekul\'e-O distortions. A grain boundary in these distortions separates the system into topological distinct…

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We present a novel ab initio non-equilibrium approach to calculate the current across a molecular junction. The method rests on a wave function based full ab initio description of the central region of the junction combined with a tight…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Schnurpfeil , Bo Song , Martin Albrecht

We consider optical spectroscopy of molecular junctions from the quantum transport perspective when radiation field is quantized and optical response of the system is simulated as photon flux. Using exact expressions for photon and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-09 Yi Gao , Michael Galperin

Considering von Neumann expression for reduced density matrix as thermodynamic entropy of a system strongly coupled to baths, we use nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) techniques to derive bath and energy resolved expressions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Nikhil Seshadri , Michael Galperin

This chapter of "The Oxford Handbook of Nanoscience and Technology: Frontiers and Advances" reviews nonequilibrium Green function (NEGF) approach to modeling spin current generation, transport, and detection in semiconductor nanostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-24 Branislav K. Nikolic , Liviu P. Zarbo , Satofumi Souma

A theoretical understanding of the experimental electronic transport phenomena in gas sensors based on DNA functionalized graphene is presented by quantitatively investigating the time-dependent electronic transport in these devices using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-16 P. Gurung , N. Deo

This article reviews the application of the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism to the simulation of novel photovoltaic devices utilizing quantum confinement effects in low dimensional absorber structures. It covers well-known…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-14 U. Aeberhard

We propose a scheme for calculation of linear optical response of current-carrying molecular junctions for the case when electronic tunneling through the junction is much faster than characteristic time of external laser field. We discuss…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-07 Michael Galperin , Sergei Tretiak

Non equilibrium Green's function methods are regularly used to calculate current and charge densities in nanoscale (both molecular and semiconductor) conductors under bias. This method is mainly used for ballistic conduction but may be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Paulsson

Time-dependent quantum transport for graphene nanoribbons (GNR) are calculated by the hierarchical equation of motion (HEOM) method based on the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) theory (Xie et.al, J. Chem. Phys. 137, 044113, 2012). In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Hang Xie , Yanho Kwok , Yu Zhang , Feng Jiang , Xiao Zheng , YiJing Yan , GuanHua Chen

We aim to provide engineers with an introduction to the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) approach, which provides a powerful conceptual tool and a practical analysis method to treat small electronic devices quantum mechanically and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. P. Anantram , M. S. Lundstrom , D. E. Nikonov

Development of experimental techniques at nanoscale resulted in ability to perform spectroscopic measurements on single-molecule current carrying junctions. These experiments are natural meeting point for research fields of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Haoran Sun , Upendra Harbola , Shaul Mukamel , Michael Galperin

We theoretically investigate the three-dimensional (3D) electron dynamics of graphene in real space under strong laser fields using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). We successfully reproduce the reversal of current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 S. Li , M. Tani , A. Hashmi , K. L. Ishikawa

We calculate the local current density in pristine armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) with varying width, $N_\mathrm{C}$, employing a density-functional-theory-based ab initio transport formalism. We observe very pronounced current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-15 Jan Wilhelm , Michael Walz , Ferdinand Evers

Newly synthesized nanostructures of graphene appear as a promising breeding ground for new technology. Therefore, it is important to identify the role played by the boundary conditions in their electronic features. In this contribution we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Eudes Gomes , Fernando Moraes

A low complexity computational model of the current-voltage characteristics for graphene nano-ribbon (GNR) field effect transistors (FET), able to simulate a hundred of points in few seconds using a PC, is presented. For quantum capacitance…

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