English
Related papers

Related papers: Current-induced atomic forces in gated graphene na…

200 papers

We performed tunneling spectroscopy measurements of graphene coupled to niobium/niobium-nitride superconducting electrodes. Due to the proximity effect, the graphene density of states depends on the phase difference between the…

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 investigate magnetic deflection of currents that flow across the Aharonov-Bohm interferom- eters defined in graphene. We consider devices induced by closed n-p junctions in nanoribbons as well as etched quantum rings. The deflection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-02 Alina Mrenca-Kolasinska , Bartlomiej Szafran

Transport measurements have revealed several exotic electronic properties of graphene. The possibility to influence the electronic structure and hence control the conductivity by adsorption or doping with adatoms is crucial in view of…

Graphene electrodes provide a suitable alternative to metal contacts in molecular conduction nanojunctions. Here, we propose to use graphene electrodes as a platform for effective photon assisted tunneling through molecular conduction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Boris Fainberg

The coupling of geometrical and electronic properties is a promising venue to engineer conduction properties in graphene. Confinement added to strain allows for interplay of different transport mechanisms with potential device applications.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-14 R. Carrillo-Bastos , D. Faria , A. Latgé , F. Mireles , N. Sandler

We investigate the combined influence of structural defects and uniaxial longitudinal strain on the electronic transport properties of armchair graphene nanoribbons using the numerical approach based on the semiempirical tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-30 Thomas Lehmann , Dmitry A. Ryndyk , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

Carbon-based nanostructures and graphene, in particular, evoke a lot of interest as new promising materials for nanoelectronics and spintronics. One of the most important issue in this context is the impact of external electrodes on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-16 S. Krompiewski

Inspired by recent measurements of forces and conductances of bipyridine nano-junctions, we have performed density functional theory calculations of structure and electron transport in a bipyridine molecule attached between gold electrodes…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Stadler , K. S. Thygesen , K. W. Jacobsen

We investigate the density and temperature-dependent conductance of graphene nanoribbons with varying aspect ratio. Transport is dominated by a chain of quantum dots forming spontaneously due to disorder. Depending on ribbon length,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-11 S. Dröscher , H. Knowles , Y. Meir , K. Ensslin , T. Ihn

We investigate the optical properties of edge-functionalized graphene nanosystems, focusing on the formation of junctions and charge transfer excitons. We consider a class of graphene structures which combine the main electronic features of…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-18 Caterina Cocchi , Deborah Prezzi , Alice Ruini , Marilia J. Caldas , Elisa Molinari

With nonequilibrium Green's function approach combined with density functional theory, we perform an ab initio calculation to investigate transport properties of graphene nanoribbon junctions self-consistently. Tight-binding approximation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Yin , Y. Y. Liang , F. Jiang , H. Chen , P. Wang , R. Note , H. Mizuseki , Y. Kawazoe

In this work we present a theoretical study of transport properties of a double crossbar junction composed by segments of graphene ribbons with different widths forming a graphene quantum dot structure. The systems are described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-29 Jhon W. Gonzalez , Monica Pacheco , Luis Rosales , Pedro Orellana

We study the transport of charge carriers through finite graphene structures. The use of numerical exact kernel polynomial and Green function techniques allows us to treat actual sized samples beyond the Dirac-cone approximation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 A. Pieper , G. Schubert , G. Wellein , H. Fehske

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with widths down to 16 nm have been characterized for their current-carrying capacity. It is found that GNRs exhibit an impressive breakdown current density, on the order of 10^8 A/cm2. The breakdown current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Raghunath Murali , Yinxiao Yang , Kevin Brenner , Thomas Beck , James D. Meindl

The problem of electrostatic screening of a charged line by undoped or weakly doped graphene is treated beyond the linear-response theory. The induced electron density is found to be approximately doping independent, n(x)~(log x)^2/x^2, at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Bor-Yuan Jiang , Michael M. Fogler

If a device like a graphene nanoribbon (GNR) has all its four corners attached to electric current leads, the device becomes a quantum junction through which two electrical circuits can interact. We study such system theoretically for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-21 Martin Konôpka , Peter Dieška

We used a complete tight-binding band structure of graphene nanoribbon to obtain, for the first time, analytical techniques for observing photon assisted transport, and dynamic localization of electrons in the graphene nanoribbons. When the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-02-17 M. Rabiu , S. Y. Mensah , S. S. Abukari

We investigate the electromechanical response of doubly clamped graphene nanoribbons to a transverse gate voltage. An analytical model is developed to predict the field-induced deformation of graphene nanoribbons as a function of field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Zhao Wang , Laetitia Philippe , Jamil Elias

Twisted graphene based moir\'e heterostructures host a flat band at the magic angles where the kinetic energy of the charge carriers is quenched and interaction effects dominate. This results in emergent phases such as superconductors and…