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All local electronic properties of graphene on a hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrate exhibit spatial moir\'e patterns related to lattice constant and orientation differences between shared triangular Bravais lattices. We apply a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ashley M. DaSilva , Jeil Jung , Shaffique Adam , Allan H. MacDonald

Towards spin selective electronics made of three coordinated carbon atoms, here we computationally propose robust and reversibly bias driven evolution of pristine undoped graphene nano-ribbons(GNR) into ferromagnetic-semiconductor, metal or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-08 Rita Maji , Joydeep Bhattacharjee

Bilayer graphene with an interlayer potential difference has an energy gap and, when the potential difference varies spatially, topologically protected one-dimensional states localized along the difference's zero-lines. When disorder is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-11 Zhenhua Qiao , Jeil Jung , Qian Niu , Allan H. MacDonald

Bottom-up on-surface synthesized nanoporous graphenes (NPGs), realized as 2D arrays of laterally covalently bonded $\pi$-conjugated graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), are a family of carbon nanomaterials that are receiving increasing attention…

We report on a theoretical study of the effects of time-dependent fields on electronic transport through graphene nanoribbon devices. The Fabry-P\'{e}rot interference pattern is modified by an ac gating in a way that depends strongly on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-10 Claudia G. Rocha , Luis E. F. Foa Torres , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

The transport properties of a bilayer graphene are studied theoretically within a self-consistent Born approximation. The electronic spectrum is composed of $k$-linear dispersion in the low-energy region and $k$-square dispersion as in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

Graphene has opened new avenues of research in quantum transport, with potential applications for coherent electronics. Coherent transport depends sensitively on scattering from microscopic disorder present in graphene samples: electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jesse Berezovsky , Robert M Westervelt

Electron transport in graphene under a laser-modulated barrier is studied in the presence of an energy gap, a scalar potential, and a uniaxial zigzag strain. The transfer-matrix approach is used with the boundary conditions to derive the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Hasna Chnafa , Clarence Cortes , David Laroze , Ahmed Jellal

We unveil the nature of the structural disorder in bottom-up zigzag graphene nanoribbons along with its effect on the magnetism and electronic transport on the basis of scanning probe microscopies and first-principles calculations. We find…

The influence of magnetic impurities on the transport properties of graphene is investigated in the regime of strong applied electric fields. As a result of electron-hole pair creation, the response becomes nonlinear and dependent on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 Arnaud Demion , Alberto D. Verga

In disordered lattices, itinerant electrons typically undergo Anderson localization due to random phase interference, which suppresses their motion. By contrast, in flat-band systems where electrons are intrinsically localized owing to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Zhe Hou , Hailong Li , Qing Yan , Yu-Hang Li , Hua Jiang

We theoretically investigate the time-dependent ballistic transport in metallic graphene nanoribbons after the sudden switch-on of a bias voltage $V$. The ribbon is divided in three different regions, namely two semi-infinite graphenic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Perfetto , G. Stefanucci , M. Cini

We theoretically study the electronic and transport properties of two graphene layers vertically coupled by an insulating layer under the influence of a time-periodic external light field. The non-adiabatic driving induces excitations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Pascal Stadler , Tomas Löfwander , Mikael Fogelström

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 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 investigated a suspended bilayer graphene where the bottom (top) layer is doped by boron (nitrogen) substitutional atoms by using Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. We found that at high dopant concentration (one B-N pair…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-25 Daniele Giofré , Davide Ceresoli , Mario I. Trioni

Monitoring electronic properties of 2D materials is an essential step to open a way for applications such as electronic devices and sensors. From this perspective, Bernal bilayer graphene (BLG) is a fairly simple system that offers great…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 Jouda Jemaa Khabthani , Ahmed Missaoui , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

Electron transport in a graphene quantum well can be analogous to photon transmission in an optical fiber. In this work, we present a detailed theoretical analysis to study the transport characteristics of graphene waveguides under the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Nayyar Abbas Shah , Vahid Mosallanejad , Kuei-Lin Chiu , Guo-ping Guo

The electronic properties of a material depend on the spatial freedom of the electron wavefunction. A well-known example is graphite, which is a conventional gapless semiconductor, while a single layer of it, graphene, exhibits extremely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Mohammadamir Bazrafshan , Thomas. D. Kühne

We present the results of first-principles calculations of selected structural and thermodynamic properties of a set of grain boundaries (GBs) in zirconium, spanning a range of misorientation angles and boundary planes. We performed…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-14 Adam J Plowman , Christopher P Race