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Recent theoretical and experimental works on carbon nanotubes and graphene samples have revealed that spin-orbit interactions, though customarily ignored in carbon-based materials, are more important and complex than it was thought. We…
We study theoretically nonlocal spin transport in a ballistic carbon nanotube contacted to two ferromagnetic leads and two normal-metal leads. When the magnetizations of the two ferromagnets are changed from a parallel to an antiparallel…
Coherent spin-dependent transport through a junction containing of Normal/Ferromagnetic/Normal bilayer graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edges is investigated by using Landauer formalism. In a more realistic set-up, the exchange field is…
This paper aims to investigate the spin dependent transport properties in hybrid nanoribbons, using the non equilibrium Greens function method. The effects of temperature gradient between the left and right leads, the ferromagnetic exchange…
We study the magnetoresistance of spin-valve devices using graphene as a non-magnetic material to connect ferromagnetic leads. As a preliminary step we first study the conductivity of a graphene strip connected to metallic contacts for a…
The coherent transport of charge and spin is one key requirement of future devices for quantum computing and communication. Scattering at defects or impurities may seriously reduce the coherence of quantum-mechanical states, thereby…
A planar ballistic structure is predicted to be highly effective in filtering electron spin from an unpolarized source into two output fluxes with the opposite and practically pure spin polarizations. The operability of the proposed device…
Structural and electronic properties, including deformation, magnetic moment, Mulliken population, bond order as well as electronic transport properties, of zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) with Co adatom on hollow site are investigated by…
Graphene's isolation launched explorations of fundamental relativistic physics originating from the planar honeycomb lattice arrangement of the carbon atoms, and of potential technological applications in nanoscale electronics. Bottom-up…
For a linear chain of diamond-like elements, we show that the Rashba spin-orbit interaction (which can be tuned by a perpendicular gate voltage) and the Aharonov-Bohm flux (due to a perpendicular magnetic field) can combine to select only…
Using ab initio density functional theory and quantum transport calculations based on nonequilibrium Green's function formalism we study structural, electronic, and transport properties of hydrogen-terminated short graphene nanoribbons…
A scheme for a spin-polarized current separator is proposed by studying the spin-dependent electron transport of a fork-shaped nanostructure with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC), connected to three leads with the same width. It is found…
We consider a quantum graph consisting of a ring with Rashba hamiltonian and an arbitrary number of semi-infinite wires attached. We describe the scattering matrix for this system and investigate spin filtering for a three terminal device.
In this study, Rashba coupling induced Aharonov-Casher effect in a graphene based nano ring is investigated theoretically. The graphene based nano ring is considered as a central device connected to semi-infinite graphene nano ribbons. In…
We report, based on its variation in electronic transport to coupled tension and shear deformation, a highly sensitive graphene-based strain sensor consisting of an armchair graphene nanoribbon (AGNR) between metallic contacts. As the…
During the last years there has been much interest, and theoretical discussion, about the possibility to use spin-orbit coupling to control the carriers spins in two-dimensional semiconducting heterostructures. Spin polarization at the…
In this work we address the effects on the conductance of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) at which organic molecules are side-attached on the ribbon ends. For simplicity, only armchair (AGNRs) and zigzag (ZGNRs) nanoribbons are considered and…
We consider quasiballistic electron transmission in a one-dimensional quantum wire subject to both time-independent and periodic potentials of a finger gate that results in a coordinate- and time-dependent Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling. A…
An interesting property of zigzag graphene nanoribbons is the presence of edge states which are extended along its borders but localized in the transverse direction. We show that because of this property, electron transport through an…
We demonstrate that due to their spin-orbit interaction carbon nanotube cross-junctions have attractive spin projective properties for transport. First, we show that the junction can be used as a versatile spin filter as a function of a…