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In this study, we investigate the charge transport properties of semiconducting armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) and heterostructures through their topological states (TSs), with a specific focus on the Coulomb blockade region. Our…

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Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems provide a promising platform for hosting unpaired Majorana fermions towards the realisation of fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. In this study, we employ the Keldysh Non-Equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Praveen Sriram , Sandesh S Kalantre , Kaveh Gharavi , Jonathan Baugh , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

A far-reaching goal of graphene research is exploiting the unique properties of carriers to realize extreme nonclassical electronic transport. Of particular interest is harnessing wavelike carriers to guide and direct them on submicron…

We analyze non-equilibrium current transport in molecular electronic devices, using as an example devices formed by two terphenyl dithiol molecules attached to gold electrodes. Using a first-principles based self-consistent matrix Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yongqiang Xue , Mark A. Ratner

Using non-equilibrium Green's function formalism, we investigate nonlinear transport and charging effects of gated graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with even number of zigzag chains. We find a negative differential resistance (NDR) over a wide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Hosein Cheraghchi , Hanyieh Esmailzade

We investigate time-resolved charge transport through graphene nanoribbons supplemented with adsorbed impurity atoms. Depending on the location of the impurities with respect to the hexagonal carbon lattice, the transport properties of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-11 Riku Tuovinen , Michael A. Sentef , Claudia Gomes da Rocha , Mauro S. Ferreira

We investigate the contribution of charge puddles to the non-vanishing conductivity minimum in disordered graphene flakes at the charge neutrality point. For that purpose, we study systems with a geometry that suppresses the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 Leandro R. F. Lima , Caio H. Lewenkopf

We probe the local inhomogeneities in the electronic properties of exfoliated graphene due to the presence of charged impurities in the SiO2 substrate using a combined scanning tunneling and electrostatic force microscope. Contact potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 Andres Castellanos-Gomez , Roel H. M. Smit , Nicolás Agraït , Gabino Rubio-Bollinger

The transmission properties of armchair graphene nanoribbon junctions between graphene electrodes are investigated by means of first-principles quantum transport calculations. First the dependence of the transmission function on the size of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 C. Motta , D. Sánchez-Portal , M. I. Trioni

We characterize the particle transport, particle loss, and nonequilibrium steady states in a dissipative one-dimensional lattice connected to reservoirs at both ends. The free-fermion reservoirs are fixed at different chemical potentials,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-27 A. -M. Visuri , T. Giamarchi , C. Kollath

The scaling behaviors of graphene nanoribbon (GNR) Schottky barrier field-effect transistors (SBFETs) are studied by solving the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) transport equation in an atomistic basis set self-consistently with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yijian Ouyang* , Youngki Yoon* , Jing Guo

We present a systematic study of electron backscattering phenomena during conduction for graphene nanoribbons with single-vacancy scatterers and dimensions within the capabilities of modern lithographic techniques. Our analysis builds upon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-24 I. Deretzis , G. Fiori , G. Iannaccone , A. La Magna

Nitrogen-vacancy centers are spatially resolved probes of current noise. So far, current noise sensing with NV centers has primarily been used as a way to probe equilibrium transport coefficients. We develop a framework for computing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Yifan Zhang , Rhine Samajdar , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

The spin dependent charge transport in zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) has been investigated by the nonequilibrium Green's function method combined with the density functional theory at the local spin density approximation. The current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ting-Ting Wu , Xue-Feng Wang , Ming-Xing Zhai , Hua Liu , Liping Zhou , Yong-Jin Jiang

Porous graphene (PG) forms a class of graphene-related materials with nanoporous architectures. Their unique atomic arrangements present interconnected networks with high surface area and high pore volume. Some remarkable properties of PG,…

We investigate localization effects in zigzag graphene nanoribbons with quasiperiodic Fibonacci-type edge extensions, accounting for electron-electron interactions. We employ a tight-binding model that includes first- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Diego B. Fonseca , Anderson L. R. Barbosa , Luiz Felipe C. Pereira

The current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of armchair graphene nanoribbons under a local uniaxial tension are investigated by using first principles quantum transport calculations. It is shown that for a given value of bias-voltage, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-07 Mehmet Topsakal , V. M. Kemal Bagci , Salim Ciraci

The conductance of metallic graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with single defects and weak disorder at their edges is investigated in a tight-binding model. We find that a single edge defect will induce quasi-localized states and consequently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-07 T. C. Li , Shao-Ping Lu

The effects of edge irregularity and mixed edge shapes on the characteristics of graphene nanoribbon transistors are examined by self-consistent atomistic simulations based on the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism. The minimal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Youngki Yoon , Jing Guo