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Nonequilibrium electronic transport through a molecular level weakly coupled to a single coherent phonon/vibration mode has been studied for superconducting leads. The Keldysh Green function formalism is used to compute the current for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Zazunov , R. Egger , C. Mora , T. Martin

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 report a systematic study of transport properties of nanosytems with charge density waves. We demonstrate, how the presence of density waves modifies the current-voltage characteristics. On the other hand hand, we show that the density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marcin Mierzejewski , Maciej M. Maska

We have studied quantum transport in Graphene Nanoribbon Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors. Unlike other studies on similar structures, we have included dissipative processes induced by inelastic electron-phonon scattering and edge roughness…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Youngki Yoon , Sayeef Salahuddin

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

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 transport of charge carriers through finite graphene structures. The use of numerical exact kernel polynomial and Green function techniques allows us to treat actual sized samples beyond the Dirac-cone approximation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 A. Pieper , G. Schubert , G. Wellein , H. Fehske

We study charge transport in one-dimensional graphene superlattices created by applying layered periodic and disordered potentials. It is shown that the transport and spectral properties of such structures are strongly anisotropic. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 Yury P. Bliokh , Valentin Freilikher , Sergey Savel'ev , Franco Nori

We study the effects of uniaxial strains on the transport properties of the graphene nanoribbons(GNRs) connected with two metallic leads in heterojunctions, using the transfer matrix method. Two typical GNRs with zigzag and armchair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jing Wang , Guiping Zhang , Fei Ye , Xiaoqun Wang

Today graphene nanoribbons and other graphene-based nanostructures can be synthesized with atomic precision. But while investigations have concentrated on straight graphene ribbons of fixed crystal orientation, ribbons with intrinsic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-29 C. G. Rocha , R. Tuovinen , R. van Leeuwen , P. Koskinen

We report an electron transport study of lithographically fabricated graphene nanoribbons of various widths and lengths at different temperatures. At the charge neutrality point, a length-independent transport gap forms whose size is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Melinda Y. Han , Juliana C. Brant , Philip Kim

We study the effect of a structural nanoconstriction on the coherent transport properties of otherwise ideal zig-zag-edged infinitely long graphene ribbons. The electronic structure is calculated with the standard one-orbital tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Muñoz-Rojas , D. Jacob , J. Fernández-Rossier , J. J. Palacios

Since its first isolation in 2004, graphene has been found to host a plethora of unusual electronic transport phenomena, making it a fascinating system for fundamental studies in condensed-matter physics as well as offering tremendous…

We simulate electron transport through graphene nanoribbons of experimentally realizable size (length L up to 2 micrometer, width W approximately 40 nm) in the presence of scattering at rough edges. Our numerical approach is based on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 F. Libisch , S. Rotter , J. Burgdörfer

Non-equilibrium two-parameter pumping transport through graphene ribbons, attached to reservoirs is described. A tight-binding model is solved using Keldysh formalism, and the crossover between adiabatic and non-adiabatic regimes is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-20 Tejinder Kaur , Liliana Arrachea , Nancy Sandler

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

The emergence of local moments in graphene zigzag edges, grain boundaries, vacancies and sp3 defects has been widely studied theoretically. However, conclusive experimental evidence is scarce. Recent progress in on-surface synthesis has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Ricardo Ortiz , Joaquín Fernández-Rossier

Designing platforms to control phase-coherence and interference of electron waves is a cornerstone for future quantum electronics, computing or sensing. Nanoporous graphene (NPG) consisting of linked graphene nanoribbons has recently been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 Gaetano Calogero , Nick R. Papior , Bernhard Kretz , Aran Garcia-Lekue , Thomas Frederiksen , Mads Brandbyge

Using the non-equilibrium Green\noindent 's function method and the Keldysh formalism, we study the effects of spin-orbit interactions and time-reversal symmetry breaking exchange fields on non-equilibrium quantum transport in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-19 Nezhat Pournaghavi , Cecilia Holmqvist , Anna Pertsova , Carlo Canali

The interplay between uniaxial strain and charging effects in zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNR) is investigated by using non-equilibrium Green's function formalism. The I-V characteristic curves and especially negative differential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 Maliheh Azadparvar , Hosein Cheraghchi