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The alkali-adsorbed graphene nanoribbons exhibit the feature-rich electronic and magnetic properties. From the first-principles calculations, there are only few adatom-dominated conduction bands, and the other conduction and valence bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 Yu-Tsung Lin , Shih-Yang Lin , Yu-Huang Chiu , Ming-Fa Lin

Due to their unique electrical properties, graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) show great promise as the building blocks of novel electronic devices. However, these properties are strongly dependent on the geometry of the edges of the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-17 Patrick Hawkins , Milan Begliarbekov , Marko Zivkovic , Stefan Strauf , Christopher P. Search

We study the transition from ballistic to diffusive and localized transport in graphene nanoribbons in the presence of binary disorder, which can be generated by chemical adsorbates or substitutional doping. We show that the interplay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-18 Petra Dietl , Georgo Metalidis , Dmitri Golubev , Pablo San-Jose , Elsa Prada , Henning Schomerus , Gerd Schön

We investigate spin effects in transport across fully interacting, finite size graphene armchair nanoribbons (ACNs) contacted to collinearly spin-polarized leads. In such systems, the presence of short ranged Coulomb interaction between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-29 Sonja Koller , Leonhard Mayrhofer , Milena Grifoni

We have theoretically investigated the electronic and magnetic properties of graphene whose zigzag edges are oxidized. The alteration of these properties by adsorption of $\mathrm{H_{2}O}$ and $\mathrm{NH_3}$ molecules have been considered.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Julia Berashevich , Tapash Chakraborty

We consider a zigzag nanoribbon of MoS2 and study its spin-dependent conductance and spin-polarization in presence (absent) of an external electric field. The field is not only perpendicular to the molybdenum plane (called vertical field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-05 Hamidreza Simchi , Mahdi Esmaeilzadeh , Hossein Mazidabadi , Mohammad Norouzi

Analysis of the band structure of TiS$_3$ single-layers suggests the possibility of changing their physical behaviour by injecting electron carriers. The anisotropy of the valence and conduction bands is explained in terms of their complex…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-10 J. A. Silva-Guillén , E. Canadell , P. Ordejón , F. Guinea , R. Roldán

Electronic structures of SiC nanoribbons have been studied by spin-polarized density functional calculations. The armchair nanoribbons are nonmagnetic semiconductor, while the zigzag nanoribbons are magnetic metal. The spin polarization in…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Lian Sun , Yafei Li , Zhenyu Li , Qunxiang Li , 1 Zhen Zhou , Zhongfang Chen , Jinlong Yang , J. G. Hou

Impurities are unavoidable during the preparation of graphene samples and play an important role in graphene's electronic properties when they are adsorbed on graphene surface. In this work, we study the electronic structures and transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Lan Chen , Fangping Ouyang , Songshan Ma , Tie-Feng Fang , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

Very recently, it was demonstrated explicitly that a zigzag graphene nanoribbon (GNR) exhibits a crossover of conductance from G0 to G0/2 with increasing the length (G0 = 2e2/h is the quantum of conductance) even at room-temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-22 Zhao-Dong Chu , Lin He

Spin-polarized first-principles calculations have been performed on zigzag Boron-Nitride Nanoribbons (z-BNNRs) with lines of alternating fused pentagon (P) and heptagon (H) rings (Pentagon-Heptagon-line-defect) at single edge as well as at…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-06-24 Sharma SRKC Yamijala , Swapan K Pati

We investigate the effect of Zeeman-splitting on quasiparticle transport in normal-superconducting-normal (NSN) aluminum single electron transistors (SETs). In the above-gap transport the interplay of Coulomb blockade and Zeeman-splitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. J. Ferguson , S. E. Andresen , R. Brenner , R. G. Clark

We have studied the adsorption of Li atoms at the hollow sites of graphene nanoribbons (zigzag and armchair), graphene, and fullerenes by means of density functional theory calculations including local and semilocal functionals. The binding…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Chananate Uthaisar , Veronica Barone , Juan E. Peralta

We study the effects of charged impurity scattering on the electronic transport properties of <110>-oriented Si nanowires in a gate-all-around geometry, where the impurity potential is screened by the gate, gate oxide and conduction band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-07 Martin P. Persson , Hector Mera , Yann-Michel Niquet , Christophe Delerue , Mamadou Diarra

We theoretically investigate the spin-dependent transport for the system of an armchair-edge graphene nanoribbon (AGNR) between two ferromagnetic (FM) leads with arbitrary polarization directions at low temperatures, where a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Benhu Zhou , Xiongwen Chen , Benliang Zhou , Kai-He Ding , Guanghui Zhou

We report on spectroscopy of a single dopant atom in silicon by resonant tunneling between source and drain of a gated nanowire etched from silicon on insulator. The electronic states of this dopant isolated in the channel appear as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Sellier , G. P. Lansbergen , J. Caro , N. Collaert , I. Ferain , M. Jurczak , S. Biesemans , S. Rogge

We study all-carbon-hydrogen molecular transistors where zigzag graphene nanoribbons play the role of three metallic electrodes connected to a ring-shaped 18-annulene molecule. Using the nonequilibrium Green function formalism combined with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-02 Kamal K. Saha , Branislav K. Nikolic , Vincent Meunier , Wenchang Lu , J. Bernholc

The recent discovery of superconductivity in Nd$_{1-x}$Sr$_{x}$NiO$_2$ has drawn significant attention in the field. A key open question regards the evolution of the electronic structure with respect to hole doping. Here, we exploit x-ray…

We performed electronic structure calculations based on the first-principles many-body theory approach in order to study quasiparticle band gaps, and optical absorption spectra of hydrogen-passivated zigzag SiC nanoribbons. Self-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Naresh Alaal , Vaideesh Loganathan , Nikhil Medhekar , Alok Shukla

Within the t-J model, the charge transport and spin response of the doped bilayer triangular antiferromagnet are studied by considering the bilayer interaction. Although the bilayer interaction leads to the band splitting in the electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-17 Ying Liang , Tianxing Ma , Shiping Feng