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Atomic collapse in graphene nanoribbons behaves in a fundamentally different way as compared to monolayer graphene, due to the presence of multiple energy bands and the effect of edges. For armchair nanoribbons we find that bound states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Jing Wang , Robbe Van Pottelberge , Amber Jacobs , Ben Van Duppen , Francois M. Peeters

In this comprehensive study, we undertake a thorough theoretical examination of the electronic subband structures within cove-edged zigzag graphene nanoribbons (CZGNRs) using the tight-binding model. These unique nanostructures arise from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-26 David M T Kuo

Graphene nano-flakes (GNFs) are predicted to host spin-polarized metallic edge states, which are envisioned for exploration of spintronics at the nanometer scale. To date, experimental realization of GNFs is only in its infancy because of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Qiushi Zhang , Tszchun Wu , Guowen Kuang , Ayu Xie , Nian Lin

We investigate electronic transport in gapped bilayer graphene (gBLG) devices. For certain edge terminations -typically a combination of zigzag, armchair, and bearded types - we observe edge state conduction within the band gap, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Jesús Arturo Sánchez-Sánchez , Thomas Stegmann

Geometric and electronic properties of folded graphene nanoribbons (FGNRs) are investigated by first-principles calculations. These properties are mainly dominated by the competition or cooperation among stacking, curvature and edge…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 Shen-Lin Chang , Bi-Ru Wu , Po-Hua Yang , Ming-Fa Lin

Graphene is a nonmagnetic semimetal and cannot be directly used as electronic or spintronic devices. We demonstrate that graphene quantum dots (GQDs) can exhibit strong edge magnetism and tunable energy gaps due to the presence of localized…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-01 Wei Hu , Yi Huang , Lin Lin , Erjun Kan , Xingxing Li , Chao Yang , Jinlong Yang

The electronic properties of a material depend on the spatial freedom of the electron wavefunction. A well-known example is graphite, which is a conventional gapless semiconductor, while a single layer of it, graphene, exhibits extremely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Mohammadamir Bazrafshan , Thomas. D. Kühne

The spin-polarized electronic structure and half-metallicity of zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) with asymmetric edge terminations are investigated by using first principles calculations. It is found that compared with symmetric…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-15 Zuanyi Li , Bing Huang , Wenhui Duan

Electronic structures of the zigzag bilayer graphite nanoribbons(Z-BGNR) with various ribbon width $N$ are studied within the tight binding approximation. Neglecting the inter-layer hopping amplitude $\gamma_4$, which is an order of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun-Won Rhim , Kyungsun Moon

We study the interplay between the edge states and a single impurity in a zigzag graphene nanoribbon. We use tight-binding exact diagonalization techniques, as well as density functional theory calculations to obtain the eigenvalue…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 L. Bilteanu , C. Dutreix , A. Jagannathan , C. Bena

With advanced synthetic techniques, a wide variety of well-defined graphene nano-ribbons (GNRs) can be produced with atomic precision. Hence, finding the relation between their structures and properties becomes important for the rational…

We will present brief overview on the electronic and transport properties of graphene nanoribbons focusing on the effect of edge shapes and impurity scattering. The low-energy electronic states of graphene have two non-equivalent massless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Yositake Takane , Masayuki Yamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

We investigate higher-order plasmons in graphene nanoribbons, and present how electronic edge states and wavefunction fine structure influence the graphene plasmons. Based on nearest-neighbor tight-binding calculations, we find that a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Kåre Obel Wedel , N. Asger Mortensen , Kristian S. Thygesen , Martijn Wubs

Bilayer graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edge is investigated with the tight binding model. Two stacking structures, alpha and beta, are considered. The band splitting is seen in the alpha structure, while the splitting in the wave number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-13 Kikuo Harigaya , Hiroshi Imamura

Using a model Hamiltonian approach including electron-electron interactions, we systematically investigate the electronic structure and magnetic properties of chiral graphene nanoribbons. We show that the presence of magnetic edge states is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-13 Oleg V. Yazyev , Rodrigo B. Capaz , Steven G. Louie

It is known that zigzag graphene edge is able to support edge states: there is a non-dispersive single-electron band localized near the zigzag edge. However, it is generally believed that no edge states exist near the armchair edge. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 P. A. Maksimov , A. V. Rozhkov , A. O. Sboychakov

We study the electronic structure of finite armchair graphene nanoribbons using density-functional theory and the Hubbard model, concentrating on the states localized at the zigzag termini. We show that the energy gaps between end-localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-23 M. Ijäs , M. Ervasti , A. Uppstu , P. Liljeroth , J. van der Lit , I. Swart , A. Harju

We theoretically examine the possible spin ordered states in zigzag graphene nanoribbon in a large supercell by the self-consistent mean field method as well as the first principle calculation. In addition to the well-known…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 Hang Xie , Jinhua Gao , Dezhuan Han

A central question in the field of graphene-related research is how graphene behaves when it is patterned at the nanometer scale with different edge geometries. Perhaps the most fundamental shape relevant to this question is the graphene…

The edge physics of graphene based systems is well known to be highly sensitive to the atomic structure at the boundary, with localized zero mode edge states found only on the zigzag type termination of the lattice. Here we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 M. Fleischmann , R. Gupta , D. Weckbecker , W. Landgraf , O. Pankratov , V. Meded , S. Shallcross