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Electronic transport is theoretically investigated in laterally confined semiconductor superlattices using the formalism of non-equilibrium Green's functions. The transport properties are calculated for nanowire superlattices of varying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-25 Thomas Grange

Non-equilibrium Greens function techniques (NEGF) combined with Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations have become a standard tool for the description of electron transport through single molecule nano-junctions in the coherent…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Stadler , V. Geskin , J. Cornil

We investigate the quantum tunneling of electrons in an AA-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) $n$-$p$ junction and $n$-$p$-$n$ junction. We show that Klein tunneling of an electron can occur in this system. The quasiparticles are not only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-04 Matthew Sanderson , Yee Sin Ang , Chao Zhang

An efficient implementation of the nonequilibrium Green function (NEGF) method combined with the density functional theory (DFT) using localized pseudo-atomic orbitals (PAOs) is presented for electronic transport calculations of a system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Taisuke Ozaki , Kengo Nishio , Hiori Kino

Transport properties of 2D materials especially close to their boundary has received much attention after the successful fabrication of graphene and other fascinating materials afterwards. While most previous work is devoted to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 Fanbing Xia , Jian Wang

Electrical transport in semiconductor superlattices is studied within a fully self-consistent quantum transport model based on nonequilibrium Green functions, including phonon and impurity scattering. We compute both the drift…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Wacker , A. -P. Jauho , S. Rott , A. Markus , P. Binder , G. H. D"ohler

To assist the design of novel, highly efficient molecular junctions, a deep understanding of the precise charge transport mechanisms through these devices is of prime importance. In the present contribution, we describe a procedure to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-13 Vincent Pohl , Lukas Eugen Marsoner Steinkasserer , Jean Christophe Tremblay

We investigate the electronic transport properties of a bilayer graphene flake contacted by two monolayer nanoribbons. Such a finite-size bilayer flake can be built by overlapping two semiinfinite ribbons or by depositing a monolayer flake…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 J. W. Gonzalez , H. Santos , M. Pacheco , L. Chico , L. Brey

A Drude-Boltzmann theory is used to calculate the transport properties of bilayer graphene. We find that for typical carrier densities accessible in graphene experiments, the dominant scattering mechanism is overscreened Coulomb impurities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-22 Shaffique Adam , S. Das Sarma

We present a combined theoretical approach to study the nonequilibrium transport properties of nanoscale systems coupled to metallic electrodes and exhibiting strong electron-phonon interactions. We use the Keldysh Green function formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. C. Monreal , F. Flores , A. Martin-Rodero

We study the electronic transport properties of dual-gated bilayer graphene devices. We focus on the regime of low temperatures and high electric displacement fields, where we observe a clear exponential dependence of the resistance as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Thiti Taychatanapat , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Achieving highly transmitting molecular junctions through resonant transport at low bias is key to the next-generation low-power molecular devices. Although, resonant transport in molecular junctions was observed by connecting a molecule…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Biswajit Pabi , Štepán Marek , Adwitiya Pal , Puja Kumari , Soumya Jyoti Ray , Arunabha Thakur , Richard Korytár , Atindra Nath Pal

We evaluate the electronic transmission and conductance in bilayer graphene through a finite number of potential barriers. Further, we evaluate the dispersion relation in a bilayer graphene superlattice with a periodic potential applied to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-21 M. Barbier , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters , J. Milton Pereira

In this paper the Boltzmann equation describing the carrier transport in a semiconductor is considered. A modified Chapman-Enskog method is used, in order to find approximate solutions in the weakly non-homogeneous case. These solutions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. F. Liotta , A. Majorana

We performed a series of theoretical transport studies on Y-branch electron waveguides which are embedded in mid-size armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs). Non-equilibrium Greens function (NEGF) with different approximations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Vahid Mosallanejad , Kuei-Lin Chiu , Guo-ping Guo

We study the electron transport through a graphene nanoribbon-superconductor junction. Both zigzag and armchair edge graphene nanoribbons are considered, and the effects of the magnetic field and disorder on the transport property are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

An integrated piecewise thermal equilibrium approach based on the first-principles calculation method has been developed to calculate bias dependent electronic structures and current- and differential conductance-voltage characteristics of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 M. -H. Tsai , T. -H. Lu , Y. -H. Tang

We report on a computational approach based on the self-consistent solution of the steady-state Boltzmann transport equation coupled with the Poisson equation for the study of inhomogeneous transport in deep submicron semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 D. Csontos , S. E. Ulloa

New two diemensional structures nanoribbon including phosphorus and germanium atoms are introduced for the nanoelectronic applications. Under various bias voltages, the electronic transport in the systems have been studied within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 Maryam Azizi , Badie Ghavami

We do parametric calculations to elucidate multi-terminal electron transport properties through a molecular system where a single phenalenyl molecule is attached to semi-infinite one-dimensional metallic leads. A formalism based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-25 Paramita Dutta , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar