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The quantum conductance properties of pyrene molecule and its silicone-doped variant between semi-infinite aluminum nano-chains have been investigated by using the density functional theory (DFT) combined with the non-equilibrium Green…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-24 Alireza Rastkar Ebrahimzade , Badie Ghavami , Jaber Jahanbin Sardroodi , Sadegh Afshari , Mina Yaghoobi

Ternary intermetallic half-Heusler (HH) compounds (XYZ) with 18 valence electron count viz. ZrCoSb, ZrNiSn, and ZrPdSn, have revealed promising thermoelectric properties. Exemplarily, it has been experimentally observed that a slight change…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-02 Parul R. Raghuvanshi , Dipanwita Bhattacharjee , Amrita Bhattacharya

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 investigate the thermoelectric performance of armchair graphene nanoribbon (AGNR), bilayer GNRs junction (BGNRJ) and BGNRJ with holes (BGNRJ-H) by the first principles calculation with non-equilibrium Green function. It is found that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Shuo Deng , Lijie Li , Paul Rees

We investigate the electronic transport properties of semiconducting ($m$,$n$) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on the mesoscopic length scale with arbitrarily distributed realistic defects. The study is done by performing quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Fabian Teichert , Andreas Zienert , Jörg Schuster , Michael Schreiber

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

Zigzag edges of neutral armchair-oriented Graphene Nano-Ribbons show states strongly localized at those edges. They behave as free radicals that can capture electrons during processing, increasing ribbon's stability. Thus, charging and its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-26 E. Louis , E. San-Fabian , G. Chiappe , J. A. Verges

We simulate quantum transport between a graphene nanoribbon (GNR) and a single-walled carbon nanotube (CNT) where electrons traverse vacuum gap between them. The GNR covers CNT over a nanoscale region while their relative rotation is 90…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 Kamal K. Saha , Branislav K. Nikolic

Using density functional theory and nonequilibrium Greens functions-based methods we investigated the electronic and transport properties of monolayer TiS3 pn-junction. We constructed a lateral pn-junction in monolayer TiS3 by using Li and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-11 F. Iyikanat , R. T. Senger , F. M. Peeters , H. Sahin

We have studied zigzag and armchair graphene nano ribbons (GNRs), described by the Hubbard Hamiltonian using quantum many body configuration interaction methods. Due to finite termination, we find that the bipartite nature of the graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Sudipta Dutta , S. Lakshmi , Swapan K. Pati

Off-resonant charge transport through molecular junctions has been extensively studied since the advent of single-molecule electronics and it is now well understood within the framework of the non-interacting Landauer approach. Conversely,…

We have demonstrated the fabrication of both armchair and zigzag epitaxial graphene nanoribbon (GNR) devices on 4H-SiC using a polymer-assisted sublimation growth method. The phenomenon of terrace step formation has traditionally introduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 C. -C. Yeh , S. M. Mhatre , N. T. M. Tran , H. M. Hill , H. Jin , P. -C. Liao , D. K. Patel , R. E. Elmquist , C. -T. Liang , A. F. Rigosi

We examine the electronic structure of recently fabricated in-plane heterojunctions of zigzag graphene nanoribbons embedded in hexagonal boron nitride. We focus on hitherto unexplored interface configurations in which both edges of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Michele Pizzochero , Nikita V. Tepliakov , Johannes Lischner , Arash A. Mostofi , Efthimios Kaxiras

We study the electron transport properties through a supported organic molecule styrene (C8H8) on an ideal silicon surface Si[111] and probed by a STM-tip. The I-V characteristics and the differential conductance of the molecule are…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-08-22 Samuel E. Baltazar , Mario De Menech , Ulf Saalmann , Aldo H. Romero , Martin E. Garcia

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is drawing increasing attention as an insulator and substrate material to develop next generation graphene-based electronic devices. In this paper, we investigate the quantum transport in heterostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Y. Zhao , Z. Wan , X. Xu , S. R. Patil , U. Hetmaniuk , M. P. Anantram

The analytical electrical transport model of the Silicene, a single layer of sp3 bonded silicon atoms in the honeycomb lattice structure as a channel in the field effect transistor configuration is presented in this paper. Although the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-02 Hatef Sadeghi

Motivated by the recent successful formation of the MoSi2N4 monolayer [Hong et al., Sci. 369, 670 (2020)], the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of MoSi2N4 nanoribbons (NRs) is investigated for the first time . The band…

Using the non-equilibrium Green's functions formalism in a tight binding model, the spin-dependent transport in armchair graphene nanoribbon (GNR) structures controlled by a ferromagnetic gate is investigated. Beyond the oscillatory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 V. Hung Nguyen , V. Nam Do , A. Bournel , V. Lien Nguyen , P. Dollfus

In this work we present a theoretical study of transport properties of a double crossbar junction composed by segments of graphene ribbons with different widths forming a graphene quantum dot structure. The systems are described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-29 Jhon W. Gonzalez , Monica Pacheco , Luis Rosales , Pedro Orellana

The coherent transport properties of armchair graphene nanoconstrictions(GNC) are studied using tight-binding approach and Green's function method. We find a non-bonding state at zero Fermi energy which results in a zero conductance valley,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 HuiQiong Yin , Wei Li , Xiao Hu , Ruibao Tao
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