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The absence of a band gap in graphene restricts its straight forward application as a channel material in field effect transistors. In this letter, we report on a new approach to engineer a band gap in graphene field effect devices (FED) by…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 T. J. Echtermeyer , M. C. Lemme , M. Baus , B. N. Szafranek , A. K. Geim , H. Kurz

Graphene is of interest in the development of next-generation electronics due to its high electron mobility, flexibility and stability. However, graphene transistors have poor on/off current ratios because of the absence of a bandgap. One…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-03 Shaorui Li , Jiaheng Li , Yongchao Wang , Chenglin Yu , Yaoxin Li , Wenhui Duan , Yayu Wang , Jinsong Zhang

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have been proposed as potential building blocks for field effect transistor (FET) devices due to their quantum confinement bandgap. Here, we propose a novel GNR device concept, enabling the control of both charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 Peter Vancso , Imre Hagymasi , Levente Tapaszto

To assist the design of novel, highly efficient molecular junctions, a deep understanding of the precise charge transport mechanisms through these devices is of prime importance. In the present contribution, we describe a procedure to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-13 Vincent Pohl , Lukas Eugen Marsoner Steinkasserer , Jean Christophe Tremblay

In contrast to graphene which is a gapless semiconductor, graphane, the hydrogenated graphene, is a semiconductor with an energy gap. Together with the two-dimensional geometry, unique transport features of graphene, and possibility of…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-04 Behnaz Gharekhanlou , Sina Khorasani

We study numerically cross conductances in a four-terminal all-graphene setup. We show that far away from the Dirac point current flows along zigzag directions, giving the possibility to guide the current between terminals using a tunable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-01 Kimmo Sääskilahti , Ari Harju , Pirjo Pasanen

In graphene nanoribbon junctions, the nearly perfect transmission occurs in some junctions while the zero conductance dips due to anti-resonance appear in others. We have classified the appearance of zero conductance dips for all…

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

This paper reviews the current status of graphene transistors as potential supplement to silicon CMOS technology. A short overview of graphene manufacturing and metrology methods is followed by an introduction of macroscopic graphene field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-25 Max C. Lemme

Herein we discuss the fabrication of ballistic suspended graphene nanostructures supplemented with local gating. Using in-situ current annealing, we show that exceptional high mobilities can be obtained in these devices. A detailed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 Romain Maurand , Peter Rickhaus , Peter Makk , Samuel Hess , Endre Tovari , Clevin Handschin , Markus Weiss , Christian Schonenberger

Surface plasmon, with its unique capability to concentrate light into sub-wavelength volume, has enabled great advances in photon science, ranging from nano-antenna and single-molecule Raman scattering to plasmonic waveguide and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jonghwan Kim , Hyungmok Son , David J. Cho , Baisong Geng , Will Regan , Sufei Shi , Kwanpyo Kim , Alex Zettl , Yuen-Ron Shen , Feng Wang

We present a compact physics-based model of the current-voltage characteristics of graphene field-effect transistors, of especial interest for analog and radio-frequency applications where bandgap engineering of graphene could be not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-27 David Jimenez , Oana Moldovan

We argue that twisted graphene nanoribbons subjected to a transverse electric field can operate as a variety of nanoelectronic devices, such as tunable tunnel diodes with current-voltage characteristics controlled by the transverse field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-14 Marta Saiz-Bretín , Andrey V. Malyshev , Francisco Domínguez-Adame

Graphene has shown great application opportunities in future nanoelectronic devices due to its outstanding electronic properties. Moreover, its impressive optical properties have been attracting the interest of researchers, and, recently,…

Graphene is an attractive electrode material to contact nanostructures down to the molecular scale since it can be gated electrostatically. Gating can be used to control the doping and the energy level alignment in the nanojunction, thereby…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Nick R. Papior , Tue Gunst , Daniele Stradi , Mads Brandbyge

We demonstrate with a fully quantum-mechanical approach that graphene can function as gate-controllable transistors for pumped spin currents, i.e., a stream of angular momentum induced by the precession of adjacent magnetizations, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-10 F. S. M. Guimarães , A. T. Costa , R. B. Muniz , M. S. Ferreira

We demonstrate that the phenomenon of current confinement along graphene n-p junctions at high magnetic fields can be used to form an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer. The interference system exploits a closed n-p junction that can be induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-23 Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Stefan Heun , Bartłomiej Szafran

We propose an implementation of a valley selective electronic Veselago lens in bilayer graphene. We demonstrate that in the presence of an appropriately oriented potential step, low-energy electrons radiating from a point source can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-26 Csaba G. Péterfalvi , László Oroszlány , Colin J. Lambert , József Cserti

Low-energy excitations in graphene exhibit relativistic properties due to the linear dispersion relation close to the Dirac points in the first Brillouin zone. Two of the Dirac points located at opposite corners of the first Brillouin zone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-25 T. Sekera , C. Bruder , E. J. Mele , R. P. Tiwari

We theoretically investigate the one-color injection currents and shift currents in zigzag graphene nanoribbons with applying a static electric field across the ribbon, which breaks the inversion symmetry to generate nonzero second order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Yadong Wei , Weiqi Li , Yongyuan Jiang , Jinluo Cheng

Today graphene nanoribbons and other graphene-based nanostructures can be synthesized with atomic precision. But while investigations have concentrated on straight graphene ribbons of fixed crystal orientation, ribbons with intrinsic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-29 C. G. Rocha , R. Tuovinen , R. van Leeuwen , P. Koskinen