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Exercising direct control over the unusual electronic structures arising from quantum confinement effects in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) - atomically defined quasi one-dimensional (1D) strips of graphene - is intimately linked to geometric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Sai Ho Pun , Aidan Delgado , Christina Dadich , Adam Cronin , Felix R. Fischer

We theoretically study the electrical, thermal and thermoelectric transport properties of graphene nanoribbons under torsional deformations. The modelling follows a nonequilibrium Green's function approach in the ballistic transport regime,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Aleandro Antidormi , Miquel Royo , Riccardo Rurali

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) physisorbed on a Au(111) surface can be picked up, lifted at one end, and made slide by means of the tip of an atomic-force microscope. The dynamical transition from smooth sliding to multiple stick-slip regimes,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 Lorenzo Gigli , Nicola Manini , Erio Tosatti , Roberto Guerra , Andrea Vanossi

The electronic nonlinear transport through ultra narrow graphene nanoribbons (sub-$10nm$) is studied. A stable region of negative differential resistance (NDR) appears in the I-V characteristic curve of {\it odd} zigzag graphene nanoribbons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-14 Hosein Cheraghchi

The effects of thermal fluctuations on the morphology of two-dimensional materials are hard to harness. We propose that a geometrically constrained graphene nanoribbon (GNR) can exhibit thermally activated snap-through transitions with a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-18 Renjie Zhao , Yiquan Zhang , Chenglin Luo , Yihang Wang

The electronic properties of low-dimensional materials can be engineered by doping, but in the case of graphene nanoribbons (GNR) the proximity of two symmetry-breaking edges introduces an additional dependence on the location of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 S. R. Power , V. M. de Menezes , S. B. Fagan , M. S. Ferreira

The last decade has seen a flurry of studies related to graphene nanoribbons owing to their potential applications in the quantum realm. However, little experimental work has been reported towards nanoribbons of other 2D materials due to…

We analyze the elastic properties, structural effects, and low-energy physics of a sheared nanoribbon placed on top of graphene, which creates a gradually changing moire pattern. By means of a classical elastic model we derive the strains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Pierre A. Pantaleon , Hector Sainz-Cruz , Francisco Guinea

In this work spin transport in corrugated armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNR) is studied. We survey combined effects of spin-orbit interaction and surface roughness, employing the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism and four…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Zahra Chaghazardi , Shoeib Babaee Touski , Rahim Faez , Mahdi Pourfath

In contrast to the well recognized transverse-electric-field-induced half-metallicity in zigzag graphene nanoribbons, here we demonstrate by first-principles calculations that zigzag graphene nanoribbons sandwiched between hexagonal boron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-15 Jin Yu , Wanlin Guo

Graphene is a truly two-dimensional atomic crystal with exceptional electronic and mechanical properties. Whereas conventional bulk and thin-film materials have been studied extensively, the key mechanical properties of graphene, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-05-25 Dipanjan Sen , Kostya S. Novoselov , Pedro M. Reis , Markus J. Buehler

At B3LYP level of theory, we predict that the half-metallicity in zigzag edge graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) can be realized when an external electric field is applied across the ribbon. The critical electric field to induce the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Er-Jun Kan , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang , J. G. Hou

With advanced synthetic techniques, a wide variety of well-defined graphene nano-ribbons (GNRs) can be produced with atomic precision. Hence, finding the relation between their structures and properties becomes important for the rational…

Morphology mediates the interplay between the structure and electronic transport in atomically thin nanoribbons such as graphene as the relaxation of edge stresses occurs preferentially via out-of-plane deflections. In the case of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Hailong Wang , Moneesh Upmanyu

It is a challenge to synthesize graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with narrow widths and smooth edges in large scale. Our first principles study on the hydrogenation of GNRs shows that the hydrogenation starts from the edges of GNRs and proceeds…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-30 Hongjun Xiang , Erjun Kan , Su-Huai Wei , Myung-Hwan Whangbo , Jinlong Yang

The interplay of twist and strain in bilayer graphene enables the formation of moir\'e patterns and narrow bands that host correlated and topological phases. While magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has been widely studied, strain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Federico Escudero , Dong Wang , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Shengjun Yuan , Francisco Guinea , Zhen Zhan

This paper presents an analytical investigation into the dynamics of Weyl pairs within magnetized helicoidal graphene nanoribbons. By embedding a curved surface into flat Minkowski space-time, we derive a fully covariant two-body Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Semra Gurtas Dogan , Kobra Hasanirokh , Omar Mustafa , Abdullah Guvendi

Void defect is a possible origin of ferromagnetic like feature of pure carbon material. Applying density functional theory to void defect induced graphene nano ribbon (GNR), a detailed relationship between multiple spin state and structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-06 Norio Ota , Laszlo Nemes

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…

Using a combination of accurate density-functional theory and a nonequilibrium Green function's method, we calculate the ballistic thermal conductance characteristics of tensile-strained armchair (AGNR) and zigzag (ZGNR) edge graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-22 Pei Shan Emmeline Yeo , Kian Ping Loh , Chee Kwan Gan