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We study spin dependent transport through a magnetic bilayer graphene nanojunction configured as two dimensional normal/ferromagnetic/normal structure where the gate-voltage is applied on the layers of ferromagnetic graphene. Based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-13 Hosein Cheraghchi , Fatemeh Adinehvand

We find clear signatures of spin-dependent negative differential resistance in compound systems comprising a graphene nanoribbon and a set of ferromagnetic insulator strips deposited on top of it. The periodic array of ferromagnetic strips…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 J. Munárriz , C. Gaul , A. V. Malyshev , P. A. Orellana , C. A. Müller , F. Domínguez-Adame

Graphene has attracted a great interest in material science due to its novel electronic structrues. Recently, magnetism discovered in graphene based systems opens the possibility of their spintronics application. This paper provides a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-24 Erjun Kan , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang

Two dimensional (2D) magnets have emerged as a compelling platform for spin based nanoelectronics, enabling atomic scale control of magnetic order, interfaces, quantum geometry, and symmetry. Here, we highlight recent advances in 2D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Bing Zhao , Roselle Ngaloy , Lalit Pandey , Himanshu Bangar , Divya P. Dubey , Saroj P. Dash

We present a theoretical analysis of interface states emerging at junctions between armchair graphene nanoribbons of varying widths. By exploring diverse width combinations and junction geometries, we demonstrate that predicting the precise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Sofia Sanz , Daniel Sánchez-Portal

By means of first principles calculations we demonstrate an effective method to tailor the local spin configuration of graphene on Co(0001) surface through nitrogen doping. Two different site occupancies of the N impurities are discussed…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-16 Zhongping Chen , Ling Miao , Xiangshui Miao

Two-dimensional (2D) materials provide a platform for developing novel spintronic devices and circuits for low-power electronics. In particular, inducing magnetism and injecting spins in graphene have promised the emerging field of graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-04 Junxiong Hua , Jiangbo Luo , Yuntian Zheng , Jiayu Chen , Ganesh Ji Omar , Andrew Thye Shen Wee , A. Ariando

Spin dependent electron transport measurements on graphene are of high importance to explore possible spintronic applications. Up to date all spin transport experiments on graphene were done in a semi-classical regime, disregarding quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 M. H. D. Guimaraes , P. J. Zomer , I. J. Vera-Marun , B. J. van Wees

The geometric, electronic and magnetic properties of strained graphene nanoribbons were investigated using spin polarized calculations within the framework of density functional theory. Cases of compressive stress along the longer axis of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-10 Sandeep Kaur , Hitesh Sharma , V. K. Jindal , Vladimir Bubanja , Isha Mudahar

The tunable band structure and nontrivial topology of multilayer rhombohedral graphene lead to a variety of correlated electronic states with isospin orders-meaning ordered states in the combined spin and valley degrees of freedom-dictated…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials for their versatile band structures and strictly 2D nature have attracted considerable attention over the past decade. Graphene is a robust material for spintronics owing to its weak spin-orbit and hyperfine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-30 Kuei-Lin Chiu , Yang Xu

Understanding how the orbital motion of electrons is coupled to the spin degree of freedom in nanoscale systems is central for applications in spin-based electronics and quantum computation. We demonstrate this coupling of spin and orbit in…

Antiferromagnetism in stacked nanographite is investigated with using the Hubbard-type models. The A-B stacking or the stacking near to that of A-B type is favorable for the hexagonal nanographite with zigzag edges, in order that magnetism…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Kikuo Harigaya , Toshiaki Enoki

Graphene is a sturdy and chemically inert material exhibiting an exposed two-dimensional electron gas of high mobility. These combined properties enable the design of graphene composites either based on covalent or non- covalent coupling of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Adrien Allain , Zheng Han , Vincent Bouchiat

Here we present a flexible strategy to realize robust nanomaterials exhibiting valence electronic structures whose fundamental physics is described by the SSH-Hamiltonian. These solid-state materials are realized using atomically precise…

Controlling electron spins strongly coupled to magnetic and nuclear spins in solid state systems is an important challenege in the field of spintronics and quantum computation. We show here that electron droplets with no net spin in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ramin M. Abolfath , Marek Korkusinski , Thomas Brabec , Pawel Hawrylak

Altermagnets, magnetic materials with zero magnetization and spin-split band structure, have gained tremendous attention recently for their rich physics and potential applications. Here, we report on a microscopic tight-binding model that…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-01 Marc Vila , Veronika Sunko , Joel E. Moore

Graphene nanoribbons are the counterpart of carbon nanotubes in graphene-based nanoelectronics. We investigate the electronic properties of chemically modified ribbons by means of density functional theory. We observe that chemical…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-29 F. Cervantes-Sodi , G. Csányi , S. Piscanec , A. C. Ferrari

We study the electronic properties of electrons in flat and curved zigzag graphene ribbons using a tight-binding model within the Slater Koster approximation. We find that curvature dramatically enhances the action of spin orbit effects in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. Gosálbez-Martínez , J. J. Palacios , J. Fernández-Rossier

Graphene, with spin and valley degrees of freedom, fosters unexpected physical and chemical properties for the realization of next-generation quantum devices. However, the spin symmetry of graphene is rather robustly protected, hampering…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-08 Dongwon Shin , Hyeonbeom Kim , Sung Ju Hong , Sehwan Song , Yeongju Choi , Youngkuk Kim , Sungkyun Park , Dongseok Suh , Woo Seok Choi