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The doping of lighter non-metals like boron and nitrogen into graphene represents a promising advancement in the field of nano-electronic devices, particularly in the development of field-effect transistors (FETs). These doped…

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Borophene has triggered a surge of interest due to its outstanding properties including mechanical flexibility, polymorphism, and opto-electrical anisotropy. Very recently, a novel semi-hydrogenated borophene, called $\alpha'$-4H, was…

Rational design of novel two-dimensional (2D) electrode materials with high capacity is crucial for the further development of Li-ion and Na-ion batteries. Herein, based on first-principles calculations, we systemically investigate Li and…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-22 Junping Hu , Chengyong Zhong , Weikang Wu , Ning Liu , Yu Liu , Shengyuan A. Yang , Chuying Ouyang

Two-dimensional boron sheets (borophenes) have been successfully synthesized in experiments and are expected to exhibit intriguing transport properties such as the emergence of superconductivity and Dirac Fermions. However, quantitative…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Jin Zhang , Jia Zhang , Cai Cheng , Jian Liu , Johannes Lischner , Feliciano Giustino , Sheng Meng

We present first principles study of thermoelectric transport properties of sandwiched heterostructure of Graphene (G)/hexagonal Boron Nitride (BN)/G, based on Boltzmann transport theory for band electrons using the bandstructure calculated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Ransell D'Souza , Sugata Mukherjee

Inspired by the successful synthesis of several allotropes, boron sheets have been one of the hottest spot areas of focus in various fields. Here, we study phonon transport in three types of boron nanoribbons with zigzag and armchair edges…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-12 Zhongwei Zhang , Yuee Xie , Qing Peng , Yuanping Chen

Vertical integration of two-dimensional materials has recently emerged as an exciting method for the design of novel electronic and optoelectronic devices. Using density functional theory, we investigatethe structural and electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Yongqing Cai , Gang Zhang , Yong-Wei Zhang

In this study, we investigate a novel hybrid borocarbonitrides (bpn-BCN) 2D material inspired by recent advances in carbon biphenylene synthesis, using first-principles calculations and semi-classical Boltzmann transport theory. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-28 Ajay Kumar Parbati Senapati , Prakash Parida

Hexagonal boron nitride (BN), one of the very few layered insulators, plays a crucial role in 2D materials research. In particular, BN grown with a high pressure technique has proven to be an excellent substrate material for graphene and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 J. Sonntag , J. Li , A. Plaud , A. Loiseau , J. Barjon , J. H. Edgar , C. Stampfer

The monolayer of black phosphorous, or phosphorene, has recently emerged as a new 2D semiconductor with intriguing highly anisotropic transport properties. Existing calculations of its intrinsic phonon-limited electronic transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 Bolin Liao , Jiawei Zhou , Bo Qiu , Mildred S. Dresselhaus , Gang Chen

New two diemensional structures nanoribbon including phosphorus and germanium atoms are introduced for the nanoelectronic applications. Under various bias voltages, the electronic transport in the systems have been studied within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 Maryam Azizi , Badie Ghavami

We study the transport properties of Dirac electrons across a two-dimensional normal metal-barrier-normal metal (NBN) interfaces in monolayer borophane. We analyse the transmission probability with variation of the width of the barrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-13 Prasun Das , Sangita De Sarkar , Asim Kumar Ghosh

We explore electron transport properties in molecular wires made of heterocyclic molecules (pyrrole, furan and thiophene) by using the Green's function technique. Parametric calculations are given based on the tight-binding model to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-13 Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

Transport through a one--dimensional wire of interacting electrons connected to semi--infinite leads is investigated using a bosonization approach. An incident electron is transmitted as a sequence of partial charges. The dc conductance is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 I. Safi , H. J. Schulz

Quantum-confined semiconductor structures are the cornerstone of modern-day electronics. Spatial confinement in these structures leads to formation of discrete low-dimensional subbands. At room temperature, carriers transfer among different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-14 I. Knezevic , E. B. Ramayya , D. Vasileska , S. M. Goodnick

We theoretically investigate the electronic transport properties of curved graphene waveguides by employing non-equilibrium Green's function techniques. We systematically study the dependence of the confined waveguide modes on the potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Vahid Mosallanejad , Ke Wang , Zhenhua Qiao , Guoping Guo

We investigated a suspended bilayer graphene where the bottom (top) layer is doped by boron (nitrogen) substitutional atoms by using Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. We found that at high dopant concentration (one B-N pair…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-25 Daniele Giofré , Davide Ceresoli , Mario I. Trioni

Borophene stands out among elemental two-dimensional materials due to its extraordinary physical properties, including structural polymorphism, strong anisotropy, metallicity, and the potential for phonon-mediated superconductivity.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-08-12 Božidar N. Šoškić , Jonas Bekaert , Cem Sevik , Milorad V. Milošević

By combining density functional theory and nonequilibrium Green's function, we study the electronic and transport properties of monolayer black phosphorus nanoribbons (PNRs). First, we investigate the band-gap of PNRs and its modulation by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 Qingyun Wu , Lei Shen , Ming Yang , Zhigao Huang , Yuan Ping Feng

Borophene is a two-dimensional material made out of boron atoms only. It exhibits polymorphism and different allotropes can be studied in terms of a rigid electronic structure, where only the occupation of the states change with the respect…

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