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On-surface synthesis enables the fabrication of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with atomic precision, allowing their electronic, optical, and magnetic properties to be tuned by engineering edge structure and width. Progress on the synthesis of…

We theoretically study the effect of transverse electric potentials on the transport properties of armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs), formed by pairs of asymme-tric gates placed along the side of the ribbon. Single pair and dual pair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-12 S. Bala Kumar , T. Fujita , Gengchiau Liang

One notable manifestation of the peculiar edge-localized states in zigzag graphene nanoribbons (zGNRs) is the p-type (n-type) characteristics of nitrogen (boron) edge-doped GNRs, and such behavior was so far considered to be exclusive for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-31 Hyo Seok Kim , Seong Sik Kim , Han Seul Kim , Yong-Hoon Kim

We investigate the diffusive electron-transport properties of charge-doped graphene ribbons and nanoribbons with imperfect edges. We consider different regimes of edge scattering, ranging from wide graphene ribbons with (partially)…

In this paper, we investigate, by molecular dynamics simulations, the mechanical properties of a new carbon nanostructure, termed graphene nanochain, constructed by sewing up pristine or twisted graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and interlocking…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-26 Yongping Zheng , Lanqing Xu , Zheyong Fan , Ning Wei , Zhigao Huang

We investigate the combined influence of structural defects and uniaxial longitudinal strain on the electronic transport properties of armchair graphene nanoribbons using the numerical approach based on the semiempirical tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-30 Thomas Lehmann , Dmitry A. Ryndyk , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

The electron-phonon matrix elements relevant to the Raman intensity and Kohn anomaly of the G band are calculated by taking into account the effect of the edge of graphene. The analysis of the pseudospin reveals that the longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-13 K. Sasaki , R. Saito , K. Wakabayashi , T. Enoki

Ab initio density functional theory calculations are carried out to predict the electronic properties and relative stability of gallium sulfide nanoribbons (Ga2S2-NRs) with either zigzag- or armchair-terminated edges. It is found that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Bao-Ji Wang , Xiao-Hua Li , Li-Wei Zhang , Guo-Dong Wang , San-Huang Ke

We study the effect of the edge disorder on the conductance of the graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). We find that only very modest edge disorder is sufficient to induce the conduction energy gap in the otherwise metallic GNRs and to lift any…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-17 M. Evaldsson , I. V. Zozoulenko , Hengyi Xu , T. Heinzel

We have investigated the effect of twisting on electronic band structure, effective mass and carrier mobilities of three prototypes of AGNRs (N=6, 7 & 8) using Density functional theory combined with Deformation potential theory and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Rajesh Thakur , P. K. Ahluwalia , Ashok Kumar , Brij Mohan , Raman Sharma

A theoretical study of the transport properties of zigzag and armchair graphene nanoribbons with a magnetic barrier on top is presented. The magnetic barrier modifies the energy spectrum of the nanoribbons locally, which results in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-19 Hengyi Xu , T. Heinzel , M. Evaldsson , I. V. Zozoulenko

The magnetic properties of graphene-related materials and in particular the spin-polarised edge states predicted for pristine graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with certain edge geometries have received much attention recently due to a range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 S. R. Power , V. M. de Menezes , S. B. Fagan , M. S. Ferreira

In this work we address the effects on the conductance of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) at which organic molecules are side-attached on the ribbon ends. For simplicity, only armchair (AGNRs) and zigzag (ZGNRs) nanoribbons are considered and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Rosales , M. Pacheco , Z. Barticevic , A. Latge , P. A. Orellana

We study the transport properties, in particular, the thermoelectric figure of merit ZT of armchair graphene nanoribbons, AGNR-N (for N=4-12, with widths ranging from 3.7 to 13.6~\AA) through strain engineering, where N is the number of…

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

The electronic and transport properties of hybrid armchair zigzag nanostructures including U-shaped graphene nanoribbons and patterned nanopores structured graphene were studied using combination of density functional theory and…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-05 Nguyen Tien Cuong

An intense laser field in the high-frequency regime drives carriers in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) out of equilibrium and creates topologically-protected edge states. Using Floquet theory on driven GNRs, we calculate the time evolution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-26 Matteo Puviani , Franca Manghi , Andrea Bertoni

The indirect exchange interaction is one of the key factors in determining the overall alignment of magnetic impurities embedded in metallic host materials. In this work we examine the range of this interaction in magnetically-doped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-30 J. M. Duffy , P. D. Gorman , S. R. Power , M. S. Ferreira

Electronic and magnetic properties of ribbon-shaped nanographite systems with zigzag and armchair edges in a magnetic field are investigated by using a tight binding model. One of the most remarkable features of these systems is the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Mitsutaka Fujita , Hiroshi Ajiki , Manfred Sigrist

We couple photoluminescent semiconducting 7-atom wide armchair edge graphene nanoribbons to plasmonic nanoantenna arrays and demonstrate an enhancement of the photoluminescence and Raman scattering intensity of the nanoribbons by more than…

Nanometer-scale graphene objects are attracting much research interest because of newly emerging properties originating from quantum confinement effects. We present Raman spectroscopy studies of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) which are known…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-23 Sunmin Ryu , Janina Maultzsch , Melinda Y. Han , Philip Kim , Louis E. Brus