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The electronic, optical and magnetic properties of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) can be engineered by controlling their edge structure and width with atomic precision through bottom-up fabrication based on molecular precursors. This approach…

On-surface synthesis enables the fabrication of atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with properties defined by their shape and edge topology. While this bottom-up approach provides unmatched control over electronic and structural…

We propose a new class of semiconducting graphene-based nanostructures: hydrogenated graphene nanoripples (HGNRs), based on continuum-mechanics analysis and first principles calculations. They are formed via a two-step combinatorial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Z. F. Wang , Yu Zhang , Feng Liu

Recent progress in the on-surface synthesis of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) has given access to atomically precise narrow GNRs with tunable electronic band gaps that makes them excellent candidates for room-temperature switching devices such…

The electronic properties of a material depend on the spatial freedom of the electron wavefunction. A well-known example is graphite, which is a conventional gapless semiconductor, while a single layer of it, graphene, exhibits extremely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Mohammadamir Bazrafshan , Thomas. D. Kühne

We conduct a theoretical examination of the electronic and magnetic characteristics of end-modified 7-atom wide armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs). Our investigation is performed within the framework of a single-band Hubbard model,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Antoine Honet , Luc Henrard , Vincent Meunier

We report electronic structure and electric field modulation calculations in the width direction for armchair graphene nanoribbons (acGNRs) using a semi-empirical extended Huckel theory. Important band structure parameters are computed,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-25 Hassan Raza , Edwin C. Kan

The thermoelectric properties of armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) with array characteristics are investigated theoretically using the tight-binding model and Green's function technique. The AGNR structures with array characteristics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 David M T Kuo

Graphene nanoribbons with zigzag terminated edges have a magnetic ground state characterized by edge ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetic inter edge coupling. This broken symmetry state is degenerate in the spin orientation and we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 M. P. López-Sancho , Luis Brey

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) synthesized using a bottom-up technique potentially enable future electronic devices owing to the tunable electronic structures depending on the well-defined width and edge geometry. For instance, armchair-edged…

A few-layer black phosphorene has recently gained significant interest in the scientific community. In this paper, we consider several polymorphs of phosphorene nanoribbons (PNRs) and employ deformation potential theory within the effective…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-08 Sumandeep Kaur , Ashok Kumar , Sunita Srivastava , Ravindra Pandey , K. Tankeshwar

Due to their unique electrical properties, graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) show great promise as the building blocks of novel electronic devices. However, these properties are strongly dependent on the geometry of the edges of the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-17 Patrick Hawkins , Milan Begliarbekov , Marko Zivkovic , Stefan Strauf , Christopher P. Search

The interplay of magnetism and topology lies at the heart of condensed matter physics, which offers great opportunities to design intrinsic magnetic topological materials hosting a variety of exotic topological quantum states including the…

Graphene has shown impressive properties for nanoelectronics applications including a high mobility and a width-dependent bandgap. Use of graphene in nanoelectronics would most likey be in the form of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yinxiao Yang , Raghunath Murali

In this study, we investigate the charge transport properties of semiconducting armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) and heterostructures through their topological states (TSs), with a specific focus on the Coulomb blockade region. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 David M T Kuo

We study the charge and spin transport in two and four terminal graphene nanoribbons (GNR) decorated with random distribution of magnetic adatoms. The inclusion of the magnetic adatoms generates only the $z$-component of the spin polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Sudin Ganguly , Saurabh Basu

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) based T junctions were designed and studied in this paper. These junctions were made up of shoulders (zigzag GNRs) joined with stems (armchair GNRs). We demonstrated the intrinsic transport properties and…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-01-17 Fangping OuYang , Bing Huang , Zuanyi Li , Xiao jin , Hui Xu

Graphene nanoribbons support a range of electronic phases that can be controlled via external stimuli. Zigzag-edged graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs), in particular, exhibit an antiferromagnetic insulating ground state that transitions to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Ruize Ma , Michele Pizzochero , Gaurav Chaudhary

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) make up an extremely interesting class of materials. On the one hand GNRs share many of the superlative properties of graphene, while on the other hand they display an exceptional degree of tunability of their…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-22 Martina Corso , Eduard Carbonell-Sanromà , Dimas G. de Oteyza

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