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We investigate the quantum transport dynamics of electrons in a multi-path Aharonov-Bohm interferometer comprising several parallel graphene nanoribbons. At low magnetic field strengths, the conductance displays a complex oscillatory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Cynthia I. Osuala , Zitao Tang , Stefan Strauf , Eui-Hyeok Yang , Chunlei Qu

The thermoelectric properties of in plane heterostructures made of Graphene and hexagonal Boron Nitride (BN) have been investigated by means of atomistic simulation. The heterostructures consist in armchair graphene nanoribbons to the sides…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Van-Truong Tran , Jérôme Saint Martin , Philippe Dollfus

The structural similarity between hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and graphene nanoribbons allows for the formation of heterojunctions with small chain stress. The combination of the insulation nature of the former and the quasi-metallic…

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

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 have investigated the magnetoresistance of lithographically prepared single-layer graphene nanoribbons in pulsed, perpendicular magnetic fields up to 60 T and performed corresponding transport simulations using a tight-binding model and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-24 S. Minke , S. H. Jhang , J. Wurm , Y. Skourski , J. Wosnitza , C. Strunk , D. Weiss , K. Richter , J. Eroms

A simple one-stage solution-based method was developed to produce graphene nanoribbons by sonicating graphite powder in organic solutions with polymer surfactant. The graphene nanoribbons were deposited on silicon substrate, and…

Graphene nanoribbons display an imperfectly understood transport gap. We measure transport through nanoribbon devices of several lengths. In nanoribbons of length greater than or equal to 250 nm we observe transport through multiple quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-02 Kathryn Todd , Hung-Tao Chou , Sami Amasha , David Goldhaber-Gordon

In this study, we highlight the potential of strain engineering in graphene/hBN (hexagonal Boron nitride) 2D heterostructures, enabling their use as wide-range light absorbers with significant implications for optoelectronic applications.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Priyanka Sinha , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , Bheemalingam Chittari

The hybrid graphene - hexagonal boron nitride (G-hBN) systems offer new routes in the design of nanoscale electronic devices. Using {\it ab initio} density functional theory calculations we investigate the dynamics of zig-zag nanoribbons a…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-21 George Alexandru Nemnes , Camelia Visan , Dragos Victor Anghel , Andrei Manolescu

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) encapsulation significantly improves carrier transport in graphene. This work investigates the benefit of implementing the encapsulation technique in graphene field-effect transistors (GFET) in terms of their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-28 Pedro C. Feijoo , Francisco Pasadas , José M. Iglesias , El Mokhtar Hamham , Raúl Rengel , David Jiménez

We study the effects of uniaxial strains on the transport properties of the graphene nanoribbons(GNRs) connected with two metallic leads in heterojunctions, using the transfer matrix method. Two typical GNRs with zigzag and armchair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jing Wang , Guiping Zhang , Fei Ye , Xiaoqun Wang

We present numerical simulations of high field transport in both suspended and deposited armchair graphene nanoribbon (A-GNR) on HfO2 substrate. Drift velocity in suspended GNR does not saturate at high electric field (F), but rather…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Alessandro Betti , Gianluca Fiori , Giuseppe Iannaccone

Gaussian deformation in graphene structures exhibits an interesting effect in which flower-shaped confinement states are observed in the deformed region [Carrillo-Bastos et al., Phys. Rev. B 90 041411 (2014)]. To exploit such a deformation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Van-Truong Tran , Jérôme Saint-Martin , Philippe Dollfus

Hexagonal boron-nitride (h-BN) provides an ideal substrate for supporting graphene devices to achieve fascinating transport properties, such as Klein tunneling, electron optics and other novel quantum transport phenomena. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Viet-Anh Tran , Viet-Hung Nguyen , Jean-Christophe Charlier

Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have emerged as promising candidates for nanoelectronic applications due to their widely tunable energy band gaps resulting from lateral quantum confinement and edge effects. Here we report on…

Hexagonal boron nitride is an ideal dielectric to form two-dimensional heterostructures due to the fact that it can be exfoliated to be just few atoms thick and its a very low density of defects. By placing graphene nanoribbons on high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Yohanes S. Gani , D. S. L. Abergel , Enrico Rossi

In this Letter, we derive an effective theory of graphene on a hexagonal Boron Nitride (h-BN) substrate. We show that the h-BN substrate generically opens a spectral gap in graphene despite the lattice mismatch. The origin of that gap is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 M. Kindermann , Bruno Uchoa , D. L. Miller

Hexagonal boron nitride is the only substrate that has so far allowed graphene devices exhibiting micron-scale ballistic transport. Can other atomically flat crystals be used as substrates for making quality graphene heterostructures? Here…

Zigzag edges of graphene have long been predicted to exhibit magnetic electronic state near the Fermi level, which can cause spin-related phenomena and offer unique potentials for graphene-based spintronics. However, the magnetic conduction…