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We revisit the problem of electron transport in clean and disordered zigzag graphene nanoribbons, and expose numerous hitherto unknown peculiar properties of these systems at zero energy, where both sublattices decouple because of chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 J. M. Luck , Y. Avishai

We consider finite ribbons of graphene with armchair orientation of their edges to study in detail impurity effects on specific Dirac-like modes. In the framework of Anderson hybrid model of impurity perturbation, a possibility for Mott…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-14 Yuriy G. Pogorelov , Vadim M. Loktev

We will present brief overview on the electronic and transport properties of graphene nanoribbons focusing on the effect of edge shapes and impurity scattering. The low-energy electronic states of graphene have two non-equivalent massless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Yositake Takane , Masayuki Yamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

We theoretically revisit graphene transport properties as a function of carrier density, taking into account possible correlations in the spatial distribution of the Coulomb impurity disorder in the environment. We find that the charged…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-06 Qiuzi Li , E. H. Hwang , E. Rossi , S. Das Sarma

We study charged impurity scattering and static screening in a top-gated substrate-supported graphene nanostructure. Our model describes how boundary conditions can be incorporated into scattering, sheds light on the dielectric response of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zhun-Yong Ong , Massimo V. Fischetti

Recent experimental observations have reported that, rather than randomly distributed, nitrogen atoms may prefer to be located on one of the two sub-lattices of graphene. It has been suggested that such a preference may present a possible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 James A. Lawlor , Mauro S. Ferreira

We analyze the transport properties of a Luttinger liquid with an imbedded impurity of explicitly time-dependent strength. We employ a radiative boundary condition formalism to describe the coupling to the voltage sources. Assuming the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-09-22 T. L. Schmidt , A. Komnik

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-18 Liviu P. Zarbo , Branislav K. Nikolic

In this paper, we propose a combined modeling of molecular mechanics (MM) and the tight-binding (TB) approach, which enables us to study the effect of factors such as external local forces, constraints, and vacancy defects on electronic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Mahnoosh Rostami , Isa Ahmadi , Farhad Khoeini

We study charge transport in a graphene zigzag nanoribbon driven by an external time-periodic kicking potential. Using the exact solution of the time-dependent Dirac equation with a delta-kick potential acting in each period, we study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 D. Babajanov , D. U. Matrasulov , R. Egger

Correlated, or extended, impurities play an important role in the transport properties of dirty metals. Here, we examine, in the framework of a tight-binding lattice, the transmission of a single electron through an array of correlated…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Wonkee Kim , L. Covaci , F. Marsiglio

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

Two-dimensional graphene, carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons represent a novel class of low dimensional materials that could serve as building blocks for future carbon-based nanoelectronics. Although these systems share a similar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-05 Alessandro Cresti , Norbert Nemec , Blanca Biel , Gabriel Niebler , Francois Triozon , Gianaurelio Cuniberti , Stephan Roche

We present a detailed numerical study of the electronic properties of single-layer graphene with resonant ("hydrogen") impurities and vacancies within a framework of noninteracting tight-binding model on a honeycomb lattice. The algorithms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-29 Shengjun Yuan , Hans De Raedt , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

We investigate transport through a single impurity in metallic zigzag carbon nanotube and find the conductance sensitively depends on the impurity strength and the bias voltage. It is rather interesting that interplay between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Po-Yao Chang , Hsiu-Hau Lin

We apply the recently-developed partition-free time-dependent Landauer-B\"uttiker (TD-LB) formalism to the study of periodically-driven transport in graphene nanoribbons (GNR). When an AC driving is applied, this formalism can be used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-29 Michael Ridley , Riku Tuovinen

We address the problem of an unscreened Coulomb charge in graphene, and calculate the local density of states and displaced charge as a function of energy and distance from the impurity. This is done non-perturbatively in two different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-10-17 Vitor M. Pereira , Johan Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto

Effects of impurity on the spin-dependent transport in a single wall carbon nanotube spin-valve, as ferromagnetic electrode/carbon nanotube/ferromagnetic electrode model junction is numerically investigated. Using a generalized Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 A. Ahmadi Fouladi , J. Vahedi , M. Soleymani

We have investigated the main scattering mechanisms affecting mobility in graphene nanoribbons using detailed atomistic simulations. We have considered carrier scattering due to acoustic and optical phonons, edge roughness, single defects,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-03 Alessandro Betti , Gianluca Fiori , Giuseppe Iannaccone

The low-energy spectrum of graphene nanoribbons with armchair edges (armchair nanoribbons) is described as the superposition of two non-equivalent Dirac points of graphene. In spite of the lack of well-separated two valley structures, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-07 Masayuki Yamamoto , Yositake Takane , Katsunori Wakabayashi