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During the last 15 years bottom-up on-surface synthesis has been demonstrated as an efficient way to synthesize carbon nanostructures with atomic precision, opening the door to unprecedented electronic control at the nanoscale. Nanoporous…

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We extensively characterize the electronic structure of ultra-narrow graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with armchair edges and zig-zag termini that have 5 carbon atoms across their width (5-AGNRs), as synthesised on Au(111). Scanning tunnelling…

The bottom-up fabrication graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) has opened new opportunities to specifically control their electronic and optical properties by precisely controlling their atomic structure. Here, we address excitations in GNRs with…

Precise control over the size and shape of graphene nanostructures allows engineering spin-polarized edge and topological states, representing a novel source of non-conventional $\pi$-magnetism with promising applications in quantum…

The significant electron-electron interactions that characterize the {\pi}-electrons of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) necessitate going beyond one-electron tight-binding description. Existing theories of electron-electron interactions in GNRs…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-27 V. M. L. Durga Prasad Goli , Suryoday Prodhan , Sumit Mazumdar , S. Ramasesha

Efforts aimed at large-scale integration of nanoelectronic devices that exploit the superior electronic and mechanical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) remain limited by the difficulties associated with manipulation and…

Graphene nano-ribbons, GNRs, are promising channel materials for next-generation ultra-miniaturised devices due to their exceptional electrical and thermal properties which arise from their atomic thickness, as well as their ability to have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Xiao Liu , Colm Durkan

The successful fabrication of single layer graphene has greatly stimulated the progress of the research on graphene. In this article, focusing on the basic electronic and transport properties of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), we review the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Bing Huang , Qimin Yan , Zuanyi Li , Wenhui Duan

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…

Graphene's isolation launched explorations of fundamental relativistic physics originating from the planar honeycomb lattice arrangement of the carbon atoms, and of potential technological applications in nanoscale electronics. Bottom-up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-13 Constantine Yannouleas , Igor Romanovsky , Uzi Landman

From the moment atomic precision control of the growth process of graphene was achieved, more elaborated carbon allotropes were proposed opening new channels for flat optoelectronics at the nanoscale. A special type of this material…

Recent experiments about the low temperature behaviour of a Single Wall Carbon Nanotube (SWCNT) showed typical Coulomb Blockade (CB) peaks in the zero bias conductance and allowed us to investigate the energy levels of interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are unique quasi-one-dimensional (1D) materials that have garnered a lot of research interest in the field of topological insulators. While the topological phases exhibited by GNRs are primarily governed by their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Haiyue Huang , Mamun Sarker , Percy Zahl , C. Stephen Hellberg , Jeremy Levy , Ioannis Petrides , Alexander Sinitskii , Prineha Narang

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…

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with atomically precise width and edge structures are a promising class of nanomaterials for optoelectronics, thanks to their semiconducting nature and high mobility of charge carriers. Understanding the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Alexander Tries , Silvio Osella , Pengfei Zhang , Fugui Xu , Mathias Kläui , Yiyong Mai , David Beljonne , Hai I. Wang

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

Recent advances in graphene nanoribbon-based research have demonstrated the controlled synthesis of chiral graphene nanoribbons (cGNR) with atomic precision using strategies of on-surface chemistry. However their electronic…

Engineering sublattice imbalance within the unit cell of bottom-up synthesized graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) represents a versatile tool for realizing custom-tailored quantum nanomaterials. The interaction between low-energy zero-modes (ZMs)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-09 Aidan P. Delgado , Michael C. Daugherty , Weichen Tang , Steven G. Louie , Felix R. Fischer

Applications based on Single Walled Carbon Nanotube (SWNT) are good example of the great need to continuously develop metrology methods in the field of nanotechnology. Contact and interface properties are key parameters that determine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-23 Julien Buchoux , Ludovic Bellon , Sophie Marsaudon , Jean-Pierre Aimé

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