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We employ the formalism of bond currents, expressed in terms of the nonequilibrium Green functions, to image the charge flow between two sites of the honeycomb lattice of graphene ribbons of few nanometers width. In sharp contrast to…

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We study the electronic transport through uniformly bent carbon nanotubes. For this purpose, we describe the nanotube with the tight-binding model and calculate the local current flow by employing non-equilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) in…

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The formation of a superlattice in graphene can serve as a way to modify its electronic bandstructure and thus to engineer its electronic transport properties. Recent experiments have discovered a Kekul\'e bond ordering in graphene…

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This review discusses the electronic properties and the prospective research directions of superconductor-graphene heterostructures. The basic electronic properties of graphene are introduced to highlight the unique possibility of combining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Gil-Ho Lee , Hu-Jong Lee

We present an analytical investigation of the quasi-Coulomb impurity states in a narrow gapped armchair graphene nanoribbon (GNR) in the presence of a uniform external electric field directed parallel to the ribbon axis. The effect of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-16 Boris S. Monzon , Peter Schmelcher

We describe how to apply the recursive Green's function method to the computation of electronic transport properties of graphene sheets and nanoribbons in the linear response regime. This method allows for an amenable inclusion of several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-18 Caio H. Lewenkopf , Eduardo R. Mucciolo

We investigate electronic transport in lithographically patterned graphene ribbon structures where the lateral confinement of charge carriers creates an energy gap near the charge neutrality point. Individual graphene layers are contacted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Melinda Y. Han , Barbaros Oezyilmaz , Yuanbo Zhang , Philip Kim

Accurate modeling of the pi-bands of armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) requires correctly reproducing asymmetries in the bulk graphene bands as well as providing a realistic model for hydrogen passivation of the edge atoms. The commonly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-22 Timothy B. Boykin , Mathieu Luisier , Gerhard Klimeck , Xueping Jiang , Neerav Kharche , Yu Zhou , Saroj K. Nayak

We combine density-functional theory and the nonequilibrium Green's function method to study the thermal conductance of graphene nanoribbons with armchair and zigzag edges. Zigzag ribbons have higher thermal conductance than armchair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-05 Zhen Wah Tan , Jian-Sheng Wang , Chee Kwan Gan

In the effective mass approximation, electronic property in graphene can be characterized by the relativistic Dirac equation. Within such a continuum model we investigate the electronic transport through graphene waveguides formed by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Haidong Li , Lin Wang , Zhihuan Lan , Yisong Zheng

We report on a theoretical study of the effects of time-dependent fields on electronic transport through graphene nanoribbon devices. The Fabry-P\'{e}rot interference pattern is modified by an ac gating in a way that depends strongly on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-10 Claudia G. Rocha , Luis E. F. Foa Torres , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

We analyze theoretically 4-terminal electronic devices composed of two crossed graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and show that they can function as beam splitters or mirrors. These features are identified for electrons in the low-energy region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Sofia Sanz , Pedro Brandimarte , Géza Giedke , Daniel Sánchez-Portal , Thomas Frederiksen

Boltzmann transport theory fails near the linear band-crossing of single-layer graphene and near the quadratic band-crossing of bilayer graphene. We report on a numerical study which assesses the role of inter-band coherence in transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-11 Maxim Trushin , Janik Kailasvuori , John Schliemann , A. H. MacDonald

The atomically-precise controlled synthesis of graphene stripes embedded in hexagonal boron nitride opens up new possibilities for the construction of nanodevices with applications in sensing. Here, we explore properties related to…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-21 Fabio A. L. de Souza , Wanderla L. Scopel , Rodrigo G. Amorim , Ralph H. Scheicher

The transport properties of a bilayer graphene are studied theoretically within a self-consistent Born approximation. The electronic spectrum is composed of $k$-linear dispersion in the low-energy region and $k$-square dispersion as in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

Graphene nanoribbon (GNR) emerges as an exceptionally promising channel candidate due to its tunable sizable bandgap (0-3 eV), ultrahigh carrier mobility (up to 4600 cm^(2) V^(-1) s^(-1)), and excellent device performance (current on-off…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 Linqiang Xu , Shiqi Liu , Qiuhui Li , Ying Li , Shibo Fang , Ying Guo , Yee Sin Ang , Chen Yang , Jing Lu

The integrated inplane growth of two dimensional materials with similar lattices, but distinct electrical properties, could provide a promising route to achieve integrated circuitry of atomic thickness. However, fabrication of edge specific…

Coherent electronic transport through a molecular device is studied using non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Such device is made of a carbon nanowire which is connected to ferromagnetic electrodes. The molecule itself is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamil Walczak , Gloria Platero

Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons are a promising emerging class of designer quantum materials with electronic properties that are tunable by chemical design. However, many challenges remain in the device integration of these…

Theoretical progress in graphene physics has largely relied on the application of a simple nearest-neighbor tight-binding model capable of predicting many of the electronic properties of this material. However, important features that…

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