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We numerically investigate the electronic transport properties between two mesoscopic graphene disks with a twist by employing the density functional theory coupled with non-equilibrium Green's function technique. By attaching two graphene…

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We investigate the electronic and optical properties of lateral heterostructures made of alternated armchair ribbons of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride. It is known that the gapwidth of these heterostructures can be classified into…

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Vertical integration of dissimilar layered materials in a so-called van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure (HS) has emerged as a useful tool to engineer band alignments and interfaces. In this paper, we investigate thermoelectric currents in a…

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We investigate the mesoscopic disorder induced rms conductance variance $\delta G$ in a few layer graphene nanoribbon (FGNR) contacted by two superconducting (S) Ti/Al contacts. By sweeping the back-gate voltage, we observe pronounced…

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The linear conductance spectrum of a metallic graphene junction formed by interconnecting two gapless graphene nanoribbons is calculated. A strong conductance suppression appears in the vicinity of the Dirac point. We found that such a…

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Thermal conductivity of homogeneous twisted stacks of graphite is found to strongly depend on the misfit angle. The underlying mechanism relies on the angle dependence of phonon-phonon couplings across the twisted interface. Excellent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-19 Wengen Ouyang , Huasong Qin , Michael Urbakh , Oded Hod

Electronic transport in a zig-zag-edge graphene nanoribbon (GNR) and its modification by adsorbed transition metal porphyrins is studied by means of density functional theory calculations. The detachment reaction of the metal centre of the…

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Due to its strong bonds graphene can stretch up to 25% of its original size without breaking. Furthermore, mechanical deformations lead to the generation of pseudo-magnetic fields (PMF) that can exceed 300 T. The generated PMF has opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Slavisa P. Milovanovic , Francois M. Peeters

Lateral heterostructures of two-dimensional materials may exhibit various intriguing emergent properties. Yet when specified to the orientationally aligned heterojunctions of zigzag graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) nanoribbons,…

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We study the influence of ripple waves originating from the electromechanical effects on spin relaxation caused by electromagnetic fields in armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). By utilizing analytical expressions supported by…

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In recent years, pressure sensors have been widely used as crucial technology components in industrial, healthcare, consumer electronics, and automotive safety applications. With the development of intelligent technologies, there is a…

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Spatially nonuniform strain is important for engineering the pseudomagnetic field and band structure of graphene. Despite the wide interest in strain engineering, there is still a lack of control on device-compatible strain patterns due to…

A major challenge of spintronics is in generating, controlling and detecting spin-polarized current. Manipulation of spin-polarized current, in particular, is difficult. We demonstrate here, based on calculated transport properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-17 Minggang Zeng , Lei Shen , Haibin Su , Miao Zhou , Chun Zhang , Yuanping Feng

By applying tight binding model, we investigate the electronic and transport properties of randomly distributed Stone-Wales (SW) defects on an armchair graphene nanoribbon (AGNR). We use four different functions, as distribution functions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 Mobin Shakeri

We study numerically the effects of edge and bulk disorder on the conductance of graphene nanoribbons. We compute the conductance suppression due to localization induced by edge scattering. We find that even for weak edge roughness,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Antonio H. Castro Neto , Caio H. Lewenkopf

The thermoelectric properties of armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) with array characteristics are investigated theoretically using the tight-binding model and Green's function technique. The AGNR structures with array characteristics…

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