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Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are a family of one-dimensional (1D) materials carved from graphene lattice. GNRs possess high mobility and current carrying capability, sizable bandgap, and versatile electronic properties tailored by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-08 Haomin Wang , Hui Shan Wang , Chuanxu Ma , Lingxiu Chen , Chengxin Jiang , Chen Chen , Xiaoming Xie , An-Ping Li , Xinran Wang

We discuss the steady-state electronic transport in solid-state and molecular devices in the quantum regime. The decimation technique allows a comprehensive description of the electronic structure. Such a method is used, in conjunction with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-26 Horacio M. Pastawski , Ernesto Medina

Modeling nanoscale devices quantum mechanically is a computationally challenging problem where new methods to solve the underlying equations are in a dire need. In this paper, we present an approach to calculate the charge density in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-07 U. Hetmaniuk , Y. Zhao , M. P. Anantram

We overview nonequilibrium Green function combined with density functional theory (NEGF-DFT) modeling of independent electron and phonon transport in nanojunctions with applications focused on a new class of thermoelectric devices where a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 Branislav K. Nikolic , Kamal K. Saha , Troels Markussen , Kristian S. Thygesen

We investigated the atomic structures, Raman spectroscopic and electrical transport properties of individual graphene nanoribbons (GNRs, widths ~10-30 nm) derived from sonochemical unzipping of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs).…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-06-21 Liming Xie , Hailiang Wang , Chuanhong Jin , Xinran Wang , Liying Jiao , Kazu Suenaga , Hongjie Dai

We provide a theoretical study of the conductance response of systems based on graphene nanoribbon to the potential of a scanning probe. The study is based on the Landauer approach for the tight-binding Hamiltonian with an implementation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 Alina Mreńca , Krzysztof Kolasiński , Bartłomiej Szafran

The quantum Hall effect in Graphene nano-ribbons (GNR) is investigated with the non-equilibrium Green s function (NEGF) based quantum transport model in the ballistic regime. The nearest neighbor tight-binding model based on pz orbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-09 Roksana Golizadeh-Mojarad , A. N. M. Zainuddin , Gerhard Klimeck , Supriyo Datta

We report electronic structure and electric field modulation calculations in the width direction for armchair graphene nanoribbons (acGNRs) using a semi-empirical extended Huckel theory. Important band structure parameters are computed,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-25 Hassan Raza , Edwin C. Kan

The electronic and transport properties of an extended linear defect embedded in a zigzag nanoribbon of realistic width are studied, within a tight binding model approach. Our results suggest that such defect profoundly modify the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 D. A. Bahamon , A. L. C. Pereira , P. A. Schulz

At present, there are a large number of quantum neural network models to deal with Euclidean spatial data, while little research have been conducted on non-Euclidean spatial data. In this paper, we propose a novel quantum graph…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Jin Zheng , Qing Gao , Yanxuan Lv

Motivated by recent advances in fabricating graphene nanostructures, we find that an electron can be trapped in Z-shaped graphene nanoconstriction with zigzag edges. The central section of the constriction operates as a single-level quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 Adam Rycerz

Tunneling field-effect transistors (FETs) have been intensely explored recently due to its potential to address power concerns in nanoelectronics. The recently discovered graphene nanoribbon (GNR) is ideal for tunneling FETs due to its…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-30 Pei Zhao , Jyotsna Chauhan , Jing Guo

The escalating complexity of urban transportation systems, exacerbated by factors such as traffic congestion, diverse transportation modalities, and shifting commuter preferences, necessitates the development of more sophisticated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-24 Nouhaila Innan , Bikash K. Behera , Saif Al-Kuwari , Ahmed Farouk

The non-equilibrium Green's function method combined with density functional theory (NEGF-DFT) provides a rigorous framework for simulating nanoscale electronic transport, but its computational cost scales steeply with system size. Recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Zili Tang , Xiaoxin Xie , Guanwen Yao , Ligong Zhang , Xiaoyan Liu , Xing Zhang , Liu Fei

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

The transmission properties of armchair graphene nanoribbon junctions between graphene electrodes are investigated by means of first-principles quantum transport calculations. First the dependence of the transmission function on the size of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 C. Motta , D. Sánchez-Portal , M. I. Trioni

In this work, fundamental results for carrier statistics in graphene 2-dimensional sheets and nanoscale ribbons are derived. Though the behavior of intrinsic carrier densities in 2d graphene sheets is found to differ drastically from…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Tian Fang , Aniruddha Konar , Huili Xing , Debdeep Jena

This paper describes a new method for representing embedding tables of graph neural networks (GNNs) more compactly via tensor-train (TT) decomposition. We consider the scenario where (a) the graph data that lack node features, thereby…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Chunxing Yin , Da Zheng , Israt Nisa , Christos Faloutos , George Karypis , Richard Vuduc

Quantum neural networks (QNNs), an interdisciplinary field of quantum computing and machine learning, have attracted tremendous research interests due to the specific quantum advantages. Despite lots of efforts developed in computer vision…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Kaixiong Zhou , Zhenyu Zhang , Shengyuan Chen , Tianlong Chen , Xiao Huang , Zhangyang Wang , Xia Hu

We study the effects of uniaxial strains on the transport properties of the graphene nanoribbons(GNRs) connected with two metallic leads in heterojunctions, using the transfer matrix method. Two typical GNRs with zigzag and armchair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jing Wang , Guiping Zhang , Fei Ye , Xiaoqun Wang