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Graphene can develop large magnetic moments in custom crafted open-shell nanostructures such as triangulene, a triangular piece of graphene with zigzag edges. Current methods of engineering graphene nano-systems on surfaces succeeded in…

High-performance materials rely on small reorganization energies to facilitate both charge separation and charge transport. Here, we performed DFT calculations to predict small reorganization energies of rectangular silicene nanoclusters…

A mechanism to generate a spin-polarized current in a two-terminal zigzag silicene nanoribbon is predicted. As a weak local exchange field that is parallel to the surface of silicene is applied on one of edges of the silicene nanoribbon, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 Xing-Tao An , Yan-Yang Zhang , Jian-Jun Liu , Shu-Shen Li

Quantum materials that host a flat band, such as pseudospin-1 lattices and magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, can exhibit drastically new physical phenomena including unconventional superconductivity, orbital ferromagnetism, and Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Hong-Ya Xu , Ying-Cheng Lai

Silicene, an analogue of graphene, was so far predicted to be the only two-dimensional silicon (2D-Si) with massless Dirac fermions. Here we predict a brand new 2D-Si Dirac semimetal, which we name siliconeet [silik'ni:t]. Unexpectedly, it…

Spintronics involves the study of active control and manipulation of spin degrees of freedom in solid-state systems. The fascinating spin-resolved properties of graphene motivate numerous researchers into the studies of spintronics in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 Yangyang Wang , Ruge Quhe , Dapeng Yu , Ju Li , Jing Lu

We theoretically investigate the spin-orbit interaction of electrons confined in the outer regions of square core-shell nanowires. The polygonal cross section leads to the accumulation of low-energy electrons in the corners and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Anna Sitek , Tudor Gabriel Dumitru , Sigurdur I. Erlingsson , Andrei Manolescu

We present theoretical evidence, based on total-energy first-principles calculations, of the existence of spin-polarized states well localized at and extended along the edges of bare zigzag boron nitride nanoribbons. Our calculations…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Veronica Barone , Juan E. Peralta

The intriguing properties of graphene, a two-dimensional material composed of a honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms, have attracted a great deal of interest in recent years. Specifically, the fact that electrons in graphene behave as massless…

We study the low energy edge states of bilayer graphene in a strong perpendicular magnetic field. Several possible simple boundaries geometries related to zigzag edges are considered. Tight-binding calculations reveal three types of edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Victoria Mazo , Efrat Shimshoni , Herbert A. Fertig

Bilayer graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edge is investigated with the tight binding model. Two stacking structures, alpha and beta, are considered. The band splitting is seen in the alpha structure, while the splitting in the wave number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 Kikuo Harigaya , Hiroshi Imamura , Katsunori Wakabayashi , Osman Ozsoy

The structure optimization, phonon, and ab initio finite temperature molecular dynamics calculations have been performed to predict that bilayer silicene has stable structure with AB stacking geometry and is more favorable energetically to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-26 Wang Rui , Wang Shaofeng , Wu Xiaozhi

We report on total-energy electronic structure calculations in the density-functional theory performed for the ultra-thin atomic layers of Si on Ag(111) surfaces. We find several distinct stable silicene structures:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-05 Zhi-Xin Guo , Atsushi Oshiyama

Three single-layer tetragonal silicon carbides (SiC), termed as T1,T2 and T3, are proposed by density functional theory (DFT) computations. Although the three structures have the same topological geometry, they show versatile electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-12 Chao Yang , Yuee Xie , Li-Min Liu , Yuanping Chen

Edge structure plays an essential role in the nature of electronic states in graphene nanoribbons. By focusing on the interplay between this feature and non-trivial topology in the domain of the Dirac confinement problem, this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-24 J. F. O de Souza , Claudio Furtado

The topological properties of electronic edge states in time-periodically driven spatially-periodic corrugated zigzag graphene nanoribbons are studied. An effective one-dimensional Hamiltonian is used to describe the electronic properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-25 Pedro Roman-Taboada , Gerardo G. Naumis

In order to explain room-temperature ferromagnetism of graphite-like materials, this paper offers a new magnetic counting rule of radical carbon zigzag edge nano graphene. Multiple spin state analysis based on a density function theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-11 Norio Ota , Narjes Gorjizadeh , Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

The electric-field effect on the electronic and magnetic properties of triangular and hexagonal graphene quantum rings with zigzag edge termination is investigated by means of the single-band tight-binding Hamiltonian and the mean-field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-29 R. Farghadan , A. Saffarzadeh

We explore the edge properties of rectangular graphene nanoribbons featuring two zigzag edges and two armchair edges. Although the self-consistent Hartree-Fock fields break chiral symmetry, our work demonstrates that graphene nanoribbons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Hyun Cheol Lee , S. -R. Eric Yang

For most practical applications in electronic devices, two-dimensional materials should be transferred onto semiconducting or insulating substrates, since they are usually generated on metallic substrates. However, the transfer often leads…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-24 Yan Qian , Erjun Kan , Kaiming Deng , Haiping Wu