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Recent conductance measurements on multi-wall carbon nanotubes (CNTs) reveal an effective behavior similar to disordered single-wall CNTs. This is due to the fact that electric current flows essentially through the outermost shell and is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Krompiewski , N. Nemec , G. Cuniberti

We study electronic transport in graphene nanoribbons with rough edges. We first consider a model of weak disorder that corresponds to an armchair ribbon whose width randomly changes by a single unit cell size. We find that in this case,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Ivar Martin , Ya. M. Blanter

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

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-22 Wei-Bang Li , Kuang-I Lin , Yu-Ming Wang , Hsien-Ching Chung , Ming-Fa Lin

We present the successful synthesis of single-atom-thick borophene nanoribbons (BNRs) by self-assembly of boron on Ag(110) surface. The scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) studies reveal high quality BNRs: all the ribbons are along the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-12 Qing Zhong , Longjuan Kong , Jian Gou , Wenbin Li , Shaoxiang Sheng , Shuo Yang , Peng Cheng , Hui Li , Kehui Wu , Lan Chen

We theoretically investigate the stability and transport properties of topological interface states (IFs) in 9-7-9 and 15-13-15 armchair graphene nanoribbon heterostructures (AGNRHs) laterally embedded in boron nitride (BN) sheets. Two…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-18 David M T Kuo

I consider the effect of the finite width of the resonant level on its thermodynamics and tunneling transport properties in the single electron charging regime. The finite width of the levels results from their delocalization with formation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 V. Ponomarenko

Conductance fluctuation is usually unavoidable in graphene nanoribbons (GNR) due to the presence of disorder along its edges. By measuring the low-frequency noise in GNR devices, we find that the conductance fluctuation is strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Guangyu Xu , Carlos M. Torres , Emil B. Song , Jianshi Tang , Jingwei Bai , Xiangfeng Duan , Yuegang Zhang , Kang L. Wang

Twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) including interlayer interaction and rotational disorder shows anomalous electron transport as a function of twist-angles (tAs). In this work, we address the electronic properties and electron transport of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Farzaneh Shayeganfar , Ali Ramazani , Nicholas X Fang

The unique ultra-relativistic, massless, nature of electron states in two-dimensional extended graphene sheets, brought about by the honeycomb lattice arrangement of carbon atoms in two-dimensions, provides ingress to explorations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-18 Constantine Yannouleas , Igor Romanovsky , Uzi Landman

We theoretically study the influence of impurity scattering on the electric and thermal transport of borophane layer, a two-dimensional anisotropic Dirac semi-metal with two tilted and anisotropic Dirac cones. In a systematic framework, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Moslem Zare

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are promising two-dimensional materials with various technological applications, in particular for the armchair GNR families that have a semiconductor character. Recently, methods that allowed for the control of…

In recent years, two-dimensional boron sheets (borophene) have been experimentally synthesized and theoretically observed as promising conductor or transistor with novel thermal and electronic properties. We first give a general survey of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-16 Dengfeng Li , Ying Chen , Jia He , Qiqi Tang , Chengyong Zhong , Guangqian Ding

The integrated inplane growth of two dimensional materials with similar lattices, but distinct electrical properties, could provide a promising route to achieve integrated circuitry of atomic thickness. However, fabrication of edge specific…

Linear transport through a single-walled carbon nanotube ring (CNR), pierced by a magnetic field and capacitively coupled to a gate voltage source, is investigated starting from a model of interacting $p_z$-electrons. The dc-conductance,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Eroms , L. Mayrhofer , M. Grifoni

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are atomically precise stripes of graphene with tunable electronic properties, making them promising for room-temperature switching applications like field-effect transistors (FETs). However, challenges persist…

In this paper, we apply the first-principle theory to explore how the electronic structures of armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) are affected by chemical modifications. The edge addends include H, F, N, NH$_{2}$, and NO$_{2}$. Our…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-11-13 Hao Ren , Qunxiang Li , Haibin Su , Q. W. Shi , Jie Chen , Jinlong Yang

The chemical stability of graphene and other free-standing two-dimensional crystals means that they can be stacked in different combinations to produce a new class of functional materials, designed for specific device applications. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-03 L. Britnell , R. V. Gorbachev , A. K. Geim , L. A. Ponomarenko , A. Mishchenko , M. T. Greenaway , T. M. Fromhold , K. S. Novoselov , L. Eaves

We investigate tunneling in metal-insulator-metal junctions employing few atomic layers of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) as the insulating barrier. While the low-bias tunnel resistance increases nearly exponentially with barrier thickness,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 U. Chandni , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , J. P. Eisenstein

Naturally occurring materials are often disordered, with their bulk properties being challenging to predict from the structure, due to the lack of underlying crystalline axes. In this paper, we develop a digital pipeline from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-04-15 Caitlyn Obrero , Mastawal Tirfe , Carmen Lee , Sourabh Saptarshi , Christopher Rock , Karen E. Daniels , Katherine A. Newhall

Results of quantum mechanical simulations of the influence of edge disorder on transport in graphene nanoribbon metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) are reported. The addition of edge disorder significantly reduces…

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