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We provide a theoretical study of the conductance response of systems based on graphene nanoribbon to the potential of a scanning probe. The study is based on the Landauer approach for the tight-binding Hamiltonian with an implementation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 Alina Mreńca , Krzysztof Kolasiński , Bartłomiej Szafran

In this paper, we study the conductance of the graphene nanoribbons(GNRs) in the presence of the Stone-Wales(S-W) reconstruction, using the transfer matrix method. The ribbon is connected with semi-infinite quantum wires as the leads. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-07 Jing Wang , Guiping Zhang , Fei Ye , Xiaoqun Wang

Motivated by the ever-improving performance of deep learning techniques, we design a mixed input convolutional neural network approach to predict transport properties in deformed nanoscale materials using a height map of deformations (from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Jack G. Nedell , Jonah Spector , Adel Abbout , Michael Vogl , Gregory A. Fiete

Modern microelectronic devices are composed of interfaces between a large number of materials, many of which are in amorphous or polycrystalline phases. Modeling such non-crystalline materials using first-principles methods such as density…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-12 Pratik Brahma , Krishnakumar Bhattaram , Sayeef Salahuddin

Straintronic devices made of carbon-based materials have been pushed up due to the graphene high mechanical flexibility and the possibility of interesting changes in transport properties. Properly designed strained systems have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 V. Torres , D. Faria , A. Latgé

The coherent electron transport along zigzag and metallic armchair graphene nanoribbons in the presence of one or two vacancies is investigated. Having in mind atomic scale tunability of the conductance fingerprints, the primary focus is on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-26 D. A. Bahamon , A. L. C. Pereira , P. A. Schulz

Based on density functional theory (DFT), we have developed algorithms and a program code to investigate the electron transport characteristics for a variety of nanometer scaled devices in the presence of an external bias voltage. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-14 Woo Youn Kim , Kwang S. Kim

The time-dependent transport through a nano-scale device, consisting of a single spin-degenerate orbital with on-site Coulomb interaction, coupled to two leads, is investigated. Various gate and bias voltage time-dependences are considered.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-30 V. Vovchenko , D. Anchishkin , J. Azema , P. Lombardo , R. Hayn , A. -M. Daré

Graphene nanostructures can be engineered with atomic precision to display customized electronic states with application in spintronics or quantum technologies. In order to take advantage of their full potential, their charge and spin state…

Chemically synthesized "cove"-type graphene nanoribbons (cGNRs) of different widths were brought into dispersion and drop-cast onto exfoliated hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on a Si/SiO2 chip. With AFM we observed that the cGNRs form ordered…

In this work we put forward an exact one-particle framework to study nano-scale Josephson junctions out of equilibrium and propose a propagation scheme to calculate the time-dependent current in response to an external applied bias. Using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Gianluca Stefanucci , Enrico Perfetto , Michele Cini

We study charge transport in a graphene zigzag nanoribbon driven by an external time-periodic kicking potential. Using the exact solution of the time-dependent Dirac equation with a delta-kick potential acting in each period, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 D. Babajanov , D. U. Matrasulov , R. Egger

Graphene -a recently discovered one-atom-thick layer of graphite- constitutes a new model system in condensed matter physics, because it is the first material in which charge carriers behave as massless chiral relativistic particles. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hubert B. Heersche , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Jeroen B. Oostinga , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen , Alberto F. Morpurgo

We theoretically investigate negative differential resistance (NDR) for ballistic transport in semiconducting armchair graphene nanoribbon (aGNR) superlattices (5 to 20 barriers) at low bias voltages V_SD < 500 mV. We combine the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-11 Gerson J. Ferreira , Michael N. Leuenberger , Daniel Loss , J. Carlos Egues

We discuss the possibility of getting rectification operation in graphene nanoribbon (GNR). For a system to be a rectifier, it must be physically asymmetric and we induce the asymmetry in GNR by introducing nanopores. The rectification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Joydeep Majhi , Sudin Ganguly , Santanu K. Maiti

Nanoelectromechanical (NEMS) resonator networks have drawn increasing interest due to their potential applications in emergent behavior, sensing, phononics, and mechanical information processing. A challenge toward realizing these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Brittany Carter , Viva R. Horowitz , Uriel Hernandez , David J. Miller , Andrew Blaikie , Benjamín J. Alemán

Short ballistic graphene Josephson junctions sustain superconducting current with a non-sinusoidal current-phase relation up to a critical current threshold. The current-phase relation, arising from proximitized superconductivity, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , Giuseppe Falci , Elisabetta Paladino

As photonic and electronic technologies approach nanometre length scales and terahertz operating speeds, electrical conductivity can no longer be treated as a purely local material parameter. In this regime, charge transport becomes…

We investigate the low-energy electronic transport across grain boundaries in graphene ribbons and infinite flakes. Using the recursive Green's function method, we calculate the electronic transmission across different types of grain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 C. J. Páez , J. N. B. Rodrigues , A. L. C. Pereira , N. M. R. Peres

A simple one-stage solution-based method was developed to produce graphene nanoribbons by sonicating graphite powder in organic solutions with polymer surfactant. The graphene nanoribbons were deposited on silicon substrate, and…