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We have investigated the effect of twisting on electronic band structure, effective mass and carrier mobilities of three prototypes of AGNRs (N=6, 7 & 8) using Density functional theory combined with Deformation potential theory and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Rajesh Thakur , P. K. Ahluwalia , Ashok Kumar , Brij Mohan , Raman Sharma

We investigate the influence of low-dimensionality and disorder in phonon transport in ultra-narrow armchair graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) using non-equilibrium Greens function (NEGF) simulation techniques. We specifically focus on how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 Hossein Karamitaheri , Mahdi Pourfath , Hans Kosina , Neophytos Neophytou

We evaluate the optical reflectivity for a uniaxially strained graphene single layer between a SiO2 substrate and air. A tight binding model for the band dispersion of graphene is employed. As a function of the strain modulus and direction,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-04 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

The electronic properties of graphene zig-zag nanoribbons with electrostatic potentials along the edges are investigated. Using the Dirac-fermion approach, we calculate the energy spectrum of an infinitely long nanoribbon of finite width…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-01 W. Apel , G. Pal , L. Schweitzer

We study dc and ac transport along armchair graphene nanoribbons using the ${\bf k\cdot p}$ spectrum and eigenfunctions and general linear-response expressions for the conductivities. Then we contrast the results with those for transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 M. Zubair , M. Bahrami , P. Vasilopoulos

Herein, we investigate the structural, electronic and mechanical properties of zigzag graphene nanoribbons upon the presence of stress applying Density Functional Theory within the GGA-PBE approximation. The uniaxial stress is applied along…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Ricardo Faccio , Pablo A. Denis , Helena Pardo , Cecilia Goyenola , Alvaro W. Mombru

We study the transport properties of a twisted bilayer graphene flake contacted by two monolayer nanoribbons which act as leads. We analyze the conductance in terms of the spectra of the bilayer nanoribbon and the monolayer contacts. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Pelc , E. Suárez Morell , L. Brey , L. Chico

We investigate electronic transport property of a graphene monolayer covered by a graphene nanoribbon. We demonstrate that electronic transmission of a monolayer can be reduced when covered by a nanoribbon. The transmission reduction occurs…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-23 Daniel Valencia , Jun-Qiang Lu , Jian Wu , Feng Liu , Feng Zhai , Yong-Jin Jiang

Strain engineering has been recently recognized as an effective way to tailor the electrical properties of graphene. In the optical domain, effects such as strain-induced anisotropic absorption add an appealing functionality to graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-31 Guang-Xin Ni , Hong-Zhi Yang , Wei Ji , Seung-Jae Baeck , Chee-Tat Toh , Jong-Hyun Ahn , Vitor M. Pereira , Barbaros Özyilmaz

We analyze the elastic properties, structural effects, and low-energy physics of a sheared nanoribbon placed on top of graphene, which creates a gradually changing moire pattern. By means of a classical elastic model we derive the strains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Pierre A. Pantaleon , Hector Sainz-Cruz , Francisco Guinea

Coherent spin-dependent transport through a junction containing of Normal/Ferromagnetic/Normal bilayer graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edges is investigated by using Landauer formalism. In a more realistic set-up, the exchange field is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Vahid Derakhshan , Hosein Cheraghchi

In the present molecular dynamics study, external ac driving is used at frequencies outside the phonon spectrum to excite gap DBs in uniformly strained graphene nanoribbon. Harmonic displacement or harmonic force is applied to a zigzag…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-02 Iman Evazzade , Ivan P. Lobzenko , Elena A. Korznikova , Ilya A. Ovid'ko , Mahmood Rezaee Roknabadi , Sergey V. Dmitriev

In graphene nanoribbon junctions, the nearly perfect transmission occurs in some junctions while the zero conductance dips due to anti-resonance appear in others. We have classified the appearance of zero conductance dips for all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-07 Masayuki Yamamoto , Katsunori Wakabayashi

Motivated by recent proposals on strain-engineering of graphene electronic circuits we calculate conductivity, shot-noise and the density of states in periodically deformed graphene. We provide the solution to the Dirac-Kronig-Penney model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-13 S. Gattenloehner , W. Belzig , M. Titov

Thermoelectric measurements for graphene ribbons are currently performed on samples that include atomic disorder via defects and irregular edges. In this work, we investigate the thermopower or Seebeck coefficient of graphene ribbons within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Jhon W. González , Luis Rosales , Andrés Ayuela

Electronic transport with a line (or a few lines) of Anderson type disorder in a zigzag graphene nanoribbon is investigated in presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Such line disorders give rise to peculiar behavior in both charge as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-01 Sudin Ganguly , Saurabh Basu , Santanu K. Maiti

We study the transport property for armchair-edge graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) with an adatom coupling to a semi-infinite quantum wire. Using the nonequilibrium Green's function approach with tight-binding approximation, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xiongwen Chen , Kehui Song , Benhu Zhou , Haiyan Wang , Guanghui Zhou

This paper explores the transport properties of aluminum-carbon composite material via ab initio methods. Interfacial and electronic dynamics of the aluminum-graphene interface structure were investigated using models of amorphous graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-12 K. Nepal , C. Ugwumadu , A. Gautam , K. Kappagantula , D. A. Drabold

We theoretically calculate the charge-supercurrent through a ballistic graphene junction where superconductivity is induced via the proximity-effect. Both monolayer and bilayer graphene are considered, including the possibility of strain in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-20 Mohammad Alidoust , Jacob Linder

Transport in disordered armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGR) with long-range correlation between quantum wire contact is investigated by transfer matrix combined with Landauer's formula. Metal-insulator transition is induced by disorder in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-03 G. P. Zhang , M. Gao , Y. Y. Zhang , N. Liu , Z. J. Qin , M. H. Shangguan