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We investigate the effects of homogeneous and inhomogeneous deformations and edge disorder on the conductance of gated graphene nanoribbons. Under increasing homogeneous strain the conductance of such devices initially decreases before it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Diana A. Cosma , Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski , Henning Schomerus , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Quantum confinement of graphene carriers is an effective way to engineer its properties. It is commonly realized through physical edges that are associated with the deterioration of mobility and strong suppression of plasmon resonances.…

We have observed asymmetric Fano resonances in the conductance of a single electron transistor resulting from interference between a resonant and a nonresonant path through the system. The resonant component shows all the features typical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Goeres , D. Goldhaber-Gordon , S. Heemeyer , M. A. Kastner , Hadas Shtrikman , D. Mahalu , U. Meirav

In this paper we study the interplay between interference effects in quantum dots (manifested through the appearance of Fano resonances in the conductance), and interactions taken into account in the self-consistent Hartree-Fock…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-21 Moshe Goldstein , Richard Berkovits

The wave nature of electrons in low-dimensional structures manifests itself in conventional electrical measurements as a quantum correction to the classical conductance. This correction comes from the interference of scattered electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-27 F. V. Tikhonenko , A. A. Kozikov , A. K. Savchenko , R. V. Gorbachev

The advent of few-layer graphenes has given rise to a new family of two-dimensional systems with emergent electronic properties governed by relativistic quantum mechanics. The multiple carbon sublattices endow the electronic wavefunctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-12 L. C. Campos , A. F. Young , K. Surakitbovorn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , P. Jarillo-Herrero

We present a theoretical study of quantum resonances in the ballistic transport of graphene based $N$-$P$-$N$ junction subject to an externally applied electromagnetic field (EF). By making use of the Floquet analysis and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. V. Fistul , K. B. Efetov

The conductance of graphene nanoribbons and nanoconstrictions under the effect of a scanning gate microscopy tip is systematically studied. Using a scattering approach for noninvasive probes, the first- and second-order conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-20 Xianzhang Chen , Guillaume Weick , Dietmar Weinmann , Rodolfo A. Jalabert

Mismatched junctions formed by two C$_3$N zigzag nanoribbons of different widths provide a useful setting for studying quantum interference effects involving edge state transport. A crucial ingredient for this interference to appear is,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Andor Che Papior , Van-Truong Tran , Roberto D'Agosta , Stefan Kurth

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

We report a dual resonance feature in ballistic conductance through a quantum Hall graphene nanoribbon with a magnetic quantum dot. Such a magnetic quantum dot localizes Dirac fermions exhibiting anisotropic eigenenergy spectra with broken…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-07 Nojoon Myoung , Jung-Wan Ryu , Hee Chul Park , Seung Joo Lee , Sungjong Woo

Graphene is a 2-dimensional (2D) carbon allotrope with the atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice. The low-energy electronic excitations in this 2D crystal are described by massless Dirac fermions that have a linear dispersion relation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 Peter Rickhaus , Romain Maurand , Ming-Hao Liu , Markus Weiss , Klaus Richter , Christian Schönenberger

Quantum-mechanical calculations of electron magneto-transport in ideal graphene nanoribbons are presented. In noninteracting theory, it is predicted that an ideal ribbon that is attached to wide leads should reveal Fabry-Perot conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 S. Ihnatsenka

The active photonics based on the two-dimensional material graphene has attracted enormous interests for developing the tunable and compact optical devices with high efficiency. Here we integrate graphene into the Fano-resonant…

We investigate the Andreev reflection in the parallel double-quantum-dot structure, by considering one metallic lead and one $s$-wave superconductor to couple to the quantum dots simultaneously. It is found that the Fano lineshhape has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Xiao Qi Wang , Shu-Feng Zhang , Yu Han , Wei-Jiang Gong

In the presence of direct trajectories connecting source and drain contacts, the conductance of a quantum dot may exhibit resonances of the Fano type. Since Fano resonances result from the interference of two transmission pathways, their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Clerk , X. Waintal , P. W. Brouwer

Bottom-up prepared carbon nanostructures appear as promising platforms for future carbon-based nanoelectronics, due to their atomically precise and versatile structure. An important breakthrough is the recent preparation of nanoporous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Gaetano Calogero , Isaac Alcón , Nick Papior , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Mads Brandbyge

Using ab initio methods we have investigated the fluorination of graphene and find that different stoichiometric phases can be formed without a nucleation barrier, with the complete "2D-Teflon" CF phase being thermodynamically most stable.…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-01-26 Morgana A. Ribas , Abhishek K. Singh , Pavel B. Sorokin , Boris I. Yakobson

We analyze the quantum interference effects appearing in the charge current through the double quantum dots coupled in T-shape configuration to an isotropic superconductor and metallic lead. Owing to proximity effect the quantum dots…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-09 J. Baranski , T. Domanski

We have carried out first-principles calculations on electronic properties of graphene quantum dots embedded in hexagonal boron nitride monolayer sheets. The calculations with density functional theory show that the band gaps of quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Junwen Li , Vivek B. Shenoy