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Using a Green's function formalism we derive analytical expressions for the electronic transmittance through a benzene ring. To motivate the approach we first solve the resonant level system and then extend the method to the benzene case.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-26 E. J. C. Dias , N. M. R. Peres

The indirect exchange interaction is one of the key factors in determining the overall alignment of magnetic impurities embedded in metallic host materials. In this work we examine the range of this interaction in magnetically-doped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-30 J. M. Duffy , P. D. Gorman , S. R. Power , M. S. Ferreira

A recursive Green's function method is employed to calculate the density-of-states, transmission function, and current through a 150 layer (3,3) armchair nanotorus (1800 atoms) with laterally attached metallic leads as functions of relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-07 Mark A. Jack , Mario R. Encinosa

In the effective mass approximation, electronic property in graphene can be characterized by the relativistic Dirac equation. Within such a continuum model we investigate the electronic transport through graphene waveguides formed by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Haidong Li , Lin Wang , Zhihuan Lan , Yisong Zheng

We investigate electronic transport in lithographically patterned graphene ribbon structures where the lateral confinement of charge carriers creates an energy gap near the charge neutrality point. Individual graphene layers are contacted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Melinda Y. Han , Barbaros Oezyilmaz , Yuanbo Zhang , Philip Kim

We investigate charge transport in pentacene-graphene nanojunctions employing density functional theory (DFT) electronic structure calculations and the Landauer transport formalism. The results show that the unique electronic properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-26 Ivan A. Pshenichnyuk , Pedro B. Coto , Susanne Leitherer , Michael Thoss

We study by density functional and large scale tight-binding transport calculations the electronic structure, magnetism and transport properties of the recently proposed graphene ribbons with edges rolled to form nanotubes. Edges with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. A. Akhukov , Shengjun Yuan , A. Fasolino , M. I. Katsnelson

Using the semi-classical Boltzmann theory, we calculate the conductivity as function of the carrier density. As usually, we include the scattering from charged impurities, but conclude that the estimated impurity density is too low in order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Stauber , N. M. R. Peres , F. Guinea

The stability of graphene nanoribbons in the presence of typical atmospheric molecules is systematically investigated by means of density functional theory. We calculate the edge formation free energy of five different edge configurations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Vanin , J. Gath , K. S. Thygesen , K. W. Jacobsen

In graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), the lateral confinement of charge carriers opens a band gap, the key feature to enable novel graphene-based electronics. Successful synthesis of GNRs has triggered efforts to realize field-effect transistors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Nils Richter , Zongping Chen , Alexander Tries , Thorsten Prechtl , Akimitsu Narita , Klaus Müllen , Kamal Asadi , Mischa Bonn , Mathias Kläui

Armchair graphene nanoribbons with different proportions of edge oxygen atoms are investigated by using crystal orbital method based on density functional theory. All the nanoribbons are energetically favorable, although buckled edges are…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-07 Hongyu Ge , Guo Wang , Yi Liao

Relativistic mean field theory is formulated with the Green's function method in coordinate space to investigate the single-particle bound states and resonant states on the same footing. Taking the density of states for free particle as a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 T. T. Sun , S. Q. Zhang , Y. Zhang , J. N. Hu , J. Meng

The main goal of our study was investigation of the influence of the deformations (sufficiently large for the establishing the non-zero gap) on electrotransport properties of impure graphene. To achieve this purpose, we implemented the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Igor Yu. Sagalianov , Yuriy I. Prylutskyy , Taras M. Radchenko , Valentyn A. Tatarenko

Electronic structures of graphene sheet with different defective patterns are investigated, based on the first principles calculations. We find that defective patterns can tune the electronic structures of the graphene significantly.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 H. Y. He , Y. Zhang , B. C. Pan

Using the non-equilibrium Green's functions formalism in a tight binding model, the spin-dependent transport in armchair graphene nanoribbon (GNR) structures controlled by a ferromagnetic gate is investigated. Beyond the oscillatory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 V. Hung Nguyen , V. Nam Do , A. Bournel , V. Lien Nguyen , P. Dollfus

Despite the uniquely high thermal conductivity of graphene is well known, the exploitation of graphene into thermally conductive nanomaterials and devices is limited by the inefficiency of thermal contacts between the individual nanosheets.…

Graphene is believed to be an excellent candidate material for next-generation electronic devices. However, one needs to take into account the nontrivial effect of metal contacts in order to precisely control the charge injection and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Salvador Barraza-Lopez , Markus Kindermann , M. Y. Chou

In this study, we propose a recursive approach to study the transport properties of atomic wires. It is based upon a real-space block-recursion technique with Landauer's formula being used to express the conductance as a scattering problem.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-07 Soumendu Datta , Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta , Abhijit Mookerjee

We present exact results for the electronic transport properties of graphene sheets connected to two metallic electrodes. Our results, obtained by transfer-matrix methods, are valid for all sheet widths and lengths. In the limit of large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Shijie Hu , Wei Du , Guiping Zhang , Miao Gao , Zhong-Yi Lu , Xiaoqun Wang

In this work, the low rank approximation concept is extended to the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method to achieve a very efficient approximated algorithm for coherent and incoherent electron transport. This new method is applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Lang Zeng , Yu He , Michael Povolotsky , XiaoYan Liu , Gerhard Klimeck , Tillmann Kubis