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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…

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Spintronics, or spin electronics, involves the study of active control and manipulation of spin degrees of freedom in solid-state systems. This article reviews the current status of this subject, including both recent advances and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian , S. Das Sarma

We numerically investigate the electronic transport properties between two mesoscopic graphene disks with a twist by employing the density functional theory coupled with non-equilibrium Green's function technique. By attaching two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yulei Han , Yafei Ren , Xinlong Dong , Junjie Zeng , Wei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao

Based on explicit solution of current continuity equation in the graphene FET's channel the semi-classical diffusion-drift description of the carrier transport and I-V characteristics model has been developed. Role of rechargeable defects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-14 Gennady I. Zebrev

We provide a theoretical description of diffusive charge and spin transport in hybrid devices containing altermagnets. Based on recently derived drift--diffusion equations for coupled charge and spin dynamics and general boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Nicolás Sigales , Tim Kokkeler , Gonzalo de Polsi , Sebastian Bergeret

The transport properties of a bilayer graphene are studied theoretically within a self-consistent Born approximation. The electronic spectrum is composed of $k$-linear dispersion in the low-energy region and $k$-square dispersion as in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

We report on spin transport features which are unique to high quality bilayer graphene, in absence of magnetic contaminants and strong intervalley mixing. The time-dependent spin polarization of propagating wavepacket is computed using an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Dinh Van Tuan , Shaffique Adam , Stephan Roche

We consider electronic current transport through a ballistic one-dimensional quantum wire connected to two ferromagnetic leads. We study the effects of the spin-dependence of interfacial phase shifts (SDIPS) acquired by electrons upon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Cottet , T. Kontos , W. Belzig , C. Schonenberger , C. Bruder

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

We characterize the transport properties of functionalized graphene nanoribbons using extensive first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) that encompass both monovalent and divalent ligands, hydrogenated defects…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-08 Giovanni Cantele , Young-Su Lee , Domenico Ninno , Nicola Marzari

We consider thermoelectric transport properties of the edge states of a two dimensional topological insulator in a double quantum point contact geometry coupled to two thermally biased reservoirs. Both spin-preserving and spin-flipping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Flavio Ronetti , Luca Vannucci , Giacomo Dolcetto , Matteo Carrega , Maura Sassetti

A system exhibiting multiple simultaneously broken symmetries offers the opportunity to influence physical phenomena such as tunneling currents by means of external control parameters. Time-reversal symmetry and inversion symmetry are both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Linder , M. S. Gronsleth , A. Sudbo

The effects of surface chemical doping on spin transport in graphene are investigated by performing non-local measurements in ultrahigh vacuum while depositing gold adsorbates. We demonstrate manipulation of the gate-dependent non-local…

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We study the spin-resolved transport through magnetic nanostructures in monolayer and bilayer graphene. We take into account both the orbital effect of the inhomogeneous perpendicular magnetic field as well as the in-plane spin splitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-04 L. Dell'Anna , A. De Martino

Recently it has been shown that ac-driven double quantum dots can act as spin pumps and spin filters. By calculating the current through the system for each spin polarization, by means of the time evolution of the reduced density matrix in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rafael Sánchez , Ernesto Cota , Ramón Aguado , Gloria Platero

Using a density matrix formulation for the effective action, we obtain a set of macroscopic equations that describe spin accumulation in a non-homogeneous ferromagnet. We give a new expression for the spin current which extends previous…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 W. N. G. Hitchon , R. W. Chantrell , A. Rebei

An analysis of a novel magnetic field sensor based on a graphene spin capacitor is presented. The proposed device consists of graphene nanoribbons on top of an insulator material connected to a ferromagnetic source/drain. The time evolution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Y. G. Semenov , J. M. Zavada , K. W. Kim

We present a trajectory-resolved framework for charge transport in graphene and related two-dimensional carbon systems beyond the ideal ballistic and fully coherent limits. Transport is described by kinetic Monte Carlo hopping on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 J. P. Dadario Pereira , Raphael Tromer , Luiz A. Ribeiro Junior , Douglas S. Galvao

Surface sensitive electric current measurements are important experimental tools poorly corroborated by theoretical models. We show that the drift-diffusion equations offer a framework for a consistent description of such experiments. The…

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