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Graphene revealed a number of unique properties beneficial for electronics. However, graphene does not have an energy band-gap, which presents a serious hurdle for its applications in digital logic gates. The efforts to induce a band-gap in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Guanxiong Liu , Sonia Ahsan , Alexander G. Khitun , Roger K. Lake , Alexander A. Balandin

Two-dimensional materials (2DMs) are fundamentally electro-mechanical systems. Their environment unavoidably strains them and modifies their quantum transport properties. For instance, a simple uniaxial strain could completely turn off the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 A. C. McRae , G. Wei , L. Huang , S. Yigen , V. Tayari , A. R. Champagne

Graphene is the first truly two-dimensional (2D) material, possessing a cone-like energy spectrum near the Fermi energy and treated as a gapless semiconductor. Its unique properties trigger researchers to find more applications of it, such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-23 Wei-Bang Li , Yu-Ming Wang , Hsien-Ching Chung , Ming-Fa Lin

Spin-hosting graphene nanostructures are promising metal-free systems for elementary quantum spintronic devices. Conventionally, spins are protected from quenching by electronic bandgaps, which also hinder electronic access to their quantum…

We investigate bilayers of nanoporous graphene (NPG), laterally bonded carbon nanoribbons, and graphene. The electronic and transport properties are explored as a function of the interlayer twist angle using an atomistic tight-binding model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Xabier Diaz de Cerio , Aleksander Bach Lorentzen , Mads Brandbyge , Aran Garcia-Lekue

The structural and electronic properties of graphene leads its charge carriers to behave like relativistic particles, which is described by a Dirac-like Hamiltonian. Since graphene is a monolayer of carbon atoms, the strain due to elastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zhigang Wang , Zhen-Guo Fu , Fawei Zheng , Ping Zhang

We show that the assumption of a nontrivial zero band gap for a graphene sheet within an effective relativistic field theoretical model description of interacting Dirac electrons on the surface of graphene describes the experimental band…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-27 A. J. Chaves , G. D. Lima , W. de Paula , C. E. Cordeiro , A. Delfino , T. Frederico , O. Oliveira

Graphene nanoribbon (GNR) field-effect transistors (FETs) with widths down to 12 nm have been fabricated by electron beam lithography using a wafer-scale chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process to form the graphene. The GNR FETs show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-30 Wan Sik Hwang , Kristof Tahy , Xuesong Li , Huili , Xing , Alan C. Seabaugh , Chun-Yung Sung , Debdeep Jena

Atomistic simulations are used to study the bending of rectangular graphene nano ribbons subjected to axial stress both for free boundary and supported boundary conditions. The shape of the deformations of the buckled graphene nano ribbons,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Neek-Amal , F. M. Peeters

The graphene is a native two-dimensional crystal material consisting of a single sheet of carbon atoms. In this unique one-atom-thick material, the electron transport is ballistic and is described by a quantum relativistic-like Dirac…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniela Dragoman , Mircea Dragoman

Ballistic semiconductor structures have allowed the realization of optics-like phenomena in electronics, including magnetic focusing and lensing. An extension that appears unique to graphene is to use both n and p carrier types to create…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-27 J. R. Williams , Tony Low , M. S. Lundstrom , C. M. Marcus

The complete theory of electrical conductivity of graphene at arbitrary temperature is developed with taken into account mass-gap parameter and chemical potential. Both the in-plane and out-of-plane conductivities of graphene are expressed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-25 G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , V. M. Petrov

Nano-rippled graphene, a structurally modified graphene, presents a novel material with a large range of possible applications including sensors, electrodes, coatings, optoelectronics, spintronics and straintronics. In this work we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-20 Iva Šrut Rakić , Davor Čapeta , Milivoj Plodinec , Marko Kralj

To address the robustness of the transport gap induced by locally strained regions in graphene nanostructures, the effect of disorder and smoothness of the interface region is investigated within the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 D. A. Bahamon , Vitor M. Pereira

A graphene-based spin-diffusive (GrSD) neural network is presented in this work that takes advantage of the locally tunable spin transport of graphene and the non-volatility of nanomagnets. By using electrostatically gated graphene as…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-12-05 Jiaxi Hu , Gordon Stecklein , Yoska Anugrah , Paul A. Crowell , Steven J. Koester

Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials are ideal for micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) due to their ultimate thinness. Platinum diselenide (PtSe$_{2}$), an exciting and unexplored 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD)…

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…

Graphene was deposited on a transparent and flexible substrate and tensile strain up to ~0.8% was loaded by stretching the substrate in one direction. Raman spectra of strained graphene show significant redshifts of 2D and G band (-27.8…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-21 Zhen Hua Ni , Ting Yu , Yun Hao Lu , Ying Ying Wang , Yuan Ping Feng , Ze Xiang Shen

Electronic transport in a graphene-based ferromagnetic/normal/ferromagnetic junction is investigated by means of Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formulism and the nonequilibrium Green's function technique. For the zigzag edge case, the results show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jiang-chai Chen , Shu-guang Cheng , Shun-Qing Shen , Qing-feng Sun
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