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Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have emerged as promising candidates for nanoelectronic applications due to their widely tunable energy band gaps resulting from lateral quantum confinement and edge effects. Here we report on…

Due to their unique electrical properties, graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) show great promise as the building blocks of novel electronic devices. However, these properties are strongly dependent on the geometry of the edges of the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-17 Patrick Hawkins , Milan Begliarbekov , Marko Zivkovic , Stefan Strauf , Christopher P. Search

The recent fabrication of graphene nanoribbon (GNR) field-effect transistors poses a challenge for first-principles modeling of carbon nanoelectronics due to many thousand atoms present in the device. The state of the art quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-28 Denis A. Areshkin , Branislav K. Nikolic

In graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), the lateral confinement of charge carriers opens a band gap, the key feature to enable novel graphene-based electronics. Successful synthesis of GNRs has triggered efforts to realize field-effect transistors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Nils Richter , Zongping Chen , Alexander Tries , Thorsten Prechtl , Akimitsu Narita , Klaus Müllen , Kamal Asadi , Mischa Bonn , Mathias Kläui

Structural and electronic properties, including deformation, magnetic moment, Mulliken population, bond order as well as electronic transport properties, of zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) with Co adatom on hollow site are investigated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 G. P. Zhang , Xiaojie Liu , C. Z. Wang , Y. X. Yao , Jian Zhang , K. M. Ho

Time-dependent quantum transport for graphene nanoribbons (GNR) are calculated by the hierarchical equation of motion (HEOM) method based on the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) theory (Xie et.al, J. Chem. Phys. 137, 044113, 2012). In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Hang Xie , Yanho Kwok , Yu Zhang , Feng Jiang , Xiao Zheng , YiJing Yan , GuanHua Chen

In this work we present a theoretical study of transport properties of a double crossbar junction composed by segments of graphene ribbons with different widths forming a graphene quantum dot structure. The systems are described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-29 Jhon W. Gonzalez , Monica Pacheco , Luis Rosales , Pedro Orellana

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

We employ the formalism of bond currents, expressed in terms of the nonequilibrium Green functions, to image the charge flow between two sites of the honeycomb lattice of graphene ribbons of few nanometers width. In sharp contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-18 Liviu P. Zarbo , Branislav K. Nikolic

Motivated by the ever-improving performance of deep learning techniques, we design a mixed input convolutional neural network approach to predict transport properties in deformed nanoscale materials using a height map of deformations (from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Jack G. Nedell , Jonah Spector , Adel Abbout , Michael Vogl , Gregory A. Fiete

The coupling of geometrical and electronic properties is a promising venue to engineer conduction properties in graphene. Confinement added to strain allows for interplay of different transport mechanisms with potential device applications.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-14 R. Carrillo-Bastos , D. Faria , A. Latgé , F. Mireles , N. Sandler

Study on the electronic transport of a large scale two dimensional system by the transfer matrix method (TMM) based on the Sch\"{o}rdinger equation suffers from the numerical instability. To address this problem, we propose a renormalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 Miao Gao , Gui-Ping Zhang , Zhong-Yi Lu

Bottom-up on-surface synthesized nanoporous graphenes (NPGs), realized as 2D arrays of laterally covalently bonded $\pi$-conjugated graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), are a family of carbon nanomaterials that are receiving increasing attention…

We calculate the local current density in pristine armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) with varying width, $N_\mathrm{C}$, employing a density-functional-theory-based ab initio transport formalism. We observe very pronounced current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-15 Jan Wilhelm , Michael Walz , Ferdinand Evers

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

We study the transport property for armchair-edge graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) with an adatom coupling to a semi-infinite quantum wire. Using the nonequilibrium Green's function approach with tight-binding approximation, we demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xiongwen Chen , Kehui Song , Benhu Zhou , Haiyan Wang , Guanghui Zhou

We study the effect of a structural nanoconstriction on the coherent transport properties of otherwise ideal zig-zag-edged infinitely long graphene ribbons. The electronic structure is calculated with the standard one-orbital tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Muñoz-Rojas , D. Jacob , J. Fernández-Rossier , J. J. Palacios

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

Density functional study of strain effects on the electronic band structure and transport prop- erties of the graphene nanoribbons (GNR) is presented. We apply a uniaxial strain in the x (nearest-neighbor) and y (second nearest-neighbor)…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-06-25 R. Rasuli , H. Rafii-Tabar , A. Iraji zad

We present an analytical theory for the gate electrostatics and the classical and quantum capacitance of the graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and compare it with the exact self-consistent numerical calculations based on the tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 A. A. Shylau , J. W. Klos , I. V. Zozoulenko
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