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Graphynes, a class of two-dimensional carbon allotropes, exhibit exceptional electronic properties, similar to graphene, but with intrinsic band gaps, making them promising for semiconducting applications. The incorporation of acetylene…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-28 Elif Unsal , Alessandro Pecchia , Alexander Croy , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

We calculate the band structure and the conductance of periodic corrugated graphene nanoribbons within the framework of the tight-binding $p$-orbital model. We consider corrugated structures based on host ribbons with armchair and zigzag…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Ihnatsenka , I. V. Zozoulenko , G. Kirczenow

We use the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) method in the ballistic limit to provide a quantitative description of the conductance of graphene pn junctions - an important building block for graphene electronics devices. In this paper,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-06 Tony Low , Seokmin Hong , Joerg Appenzeller , Supriyo Datta , Mark Lundstrom

Numerical calculations have been performed to elucidate unconventional electronic transport properties in disordered nanographene ribbons with zigzag edges (zigzag ribbons). The energy band structure of zigzag ribbons has two valleys that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-07 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Yositake Takane , Masayuki Yamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are one-dimensional nanostructures predicted to display a rich variety of electronic behaviors. Depending on their structure, GNRs realize metallic and semiconducting electronic structures with band gaps that can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-16 Oleg V. Yazyev

The recent fabrication of graphene nanoribbon (GNR) field-effect transistors poses a challenge for first-principles modeling of carbon nanoelectronics due to many thousand atoms present in the device. The state of the art quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-28 Denis A. Areshkin , Branislav K. Nikolic

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

Graphene samples can have a very high carrier mobility if influences from the substrate and the environment are minimized. Embedding a graphene sheet into a heterostructure with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on both sides was shown to be a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 Andreas Sandner , Tobias Preis , Christian Schell , Paula Giudici , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Dieter Weiss , Jonathan Eroms

An efficient computational methodology is used to explore charge transport properties in chemically-modified (and randomly disordered) graphene-based materials. The Hamiltonians of various complex forms of graphene are constructed using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-16 Nicolas Leconte , Aurélien Lherbier , François Varchon , Pablo Ordejon , Stephan Roche , Jean-Christophe Charlier

Armchair biphenylene nanoribbons are investigated by using density functional theory. The nanoribbon that contains one biphenylene subunit in a unit cell is a semiconductor with a direct band gap larger than 1 eV, while that containing four…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Hongyu Ge , Guo Wang , Yi Liao

Graphene nanoribbons (GNR) in mutually perpendicular electric and magnetic fields are shown to exhibit dramatic changes in their band structure and electron transport properties. A strong electric field across the ribbon induces multiple…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Oleksiy Roslyak , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are promising components in future nanoelectronics due to the large mobility of graphene electrons and their tunable electronic band gap in combination with recent experimental developments of on-surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-03 Pedro Brandimarte , Mads Engelund , Nick Papior , Aran Garcia-Lekue , Thomas Frederiksen , Daniel Sánchez-Portal

We show how hydrogenation of graphene nanoribbons at small concentrations can open new venues towards carbon-based spintronics applications regardless of any especific edge termination or passivation of the nanoribbons. Density functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 D. Soriano , F. Muñoz-Rojas , J. Fernández-Rossier , J. J. Palacios

We propose an extensive report on the simulation of electronic transport in 2D graphene in presence of structural defects. Amongst the large variety of such defects in sp$^2$ carbon-based materials, we focus on the Stone-Wales defect and on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-03 Aurelien Lherbier , Simon M. -M. Dubois , Xavier Declerck , Yann-Michel Niquet , Stephan Roche , Jean-Christophe Charlier

We simulate electron transport through graphene nanoribbons of experimentally realizable size (length L up to 2 micrometer, width W approximately 40 nm) in the presence of scattering at rough edges. Our numerical approach is based on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 F. Libisch , S. Rotter , J. Burgdörfer

A simple one-stage solution-based method was developed to produce graphene nanoribbons by sonicating graphite powder in organic solutions with polymer surfactant. The graphene nanoribbons were deposited on silicon substrate, and…

Chemically synthesized "cove"-type graphene nanoribbons (cGNRs) of different widths were brought into dispersion and drop-cast onto exfoliated hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on a Si/SiO2 chip. With AFM we observed that the cGNRs form ordered…

The transport properties of electrons in graphene $p$-$n$ junction with uniform Kekul\'e lattice distortion have been studied using the tight-binding model and the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism combined with the nonequilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Peipei Zhang , Chao Wang , Yu-Xian Li , Lixue Zhai , Juntao Song

We study the electronic structure of gated graphene sheets. We consider both infinite graphene and finite width ribbons. The effect of Coulomb interactions between the electrically injected carriers and the coupling to the external gate are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-29 J. Fernandez-Rossier , J. J. Palacios , L. Brey

Bottom-up on-surface synthesized nanoporous graphenes (NPGs), realized as 2D arrays of laterally covalently bonded $\pi$-conjugated graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), are a family of carbon nanomaterials that are receiving increasing attention…

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