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The electronic properties of graphene are influenced by both geometric confinement and strain. We study the electronic structure of in-plane bent graphene nanoribbons, systems where confinement and strain are combined. To understand its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-21 S. G. Stuij , P. H. Jacobse , V. Juricic , C. Morais Smith

We extensively investigate the electronic and transport properties of a twisted bilayer graphene when subjected to both an external perpendicular electric field and a magnetic field. Using a basic tight-binding model, we show the flat…

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Within the tight binding approximation, we study the dependence of the electronic band structure and of the optical conductivity of a graphene single layer on the modulus and direction of applied uniaxial strain. While the Dirac cone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-15 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

Thermoelectric measurements for graphene ribbons are currently performed on samples that include atomic disorder via defects and irregular edges. In this work, we investigate the thermopower or Seebeck coefficient of graphene ribbons within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Jhon W. González , Luis Rosales , Andrés Ayuela

Electrons moving in graphene behave as massless Dirac fermions, and they exhibit fascinating low-frequency electrical transport phenomena. Their dynamic response, however, is little known at frequencies above one terahertz (THz). Such…

Producing and manipulating graphene on fab-compatible scale, while maintaining its remarkable carrier mobility, is key to finalize its technological application. We show that a large-scale approach (chemical vapor deposition on Cu followed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-24 Sergio Pezzini , Vaidotas Mišeikis , Simona Pace , Francesco Rossella , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Camilla Coletti

Armchair biphenylene nanoribbons are investigated by using density functional theory. The nanoribbon that contains one biphenylene subunit in a unit cell is a semiconductor with a direct band gap larger than 1 eV, while that containing four…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Hongyu Ge , Guo Wang , Yi Liao

Today graphene nanoribbons and other graphene-based nanostructures can be synthesized with atomic precision. But while investigations have concentrated on straight graphene ribbons of fixed crystal orientation, ribbons with intrinsic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-29 C. G. Rocha , R. Tuovinen , R. van Leeuwen , P. Koskinen

Armchair graphene nanoribbons with different proportions of edge oxygen atoms are investigated by using crystal orbital method based on density functional theory. All the nanoribbons are energetically favorable, although buckled edges are…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-07 Hongyu Ge , Guo Wang , Yi Liao

We numerically investigate the electronic transport properties between two mesoscopic graphene disks with a twist by employing the density functional theory coupled with non-equilibrium Green's function technique. By attaching two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yulei Han , Yafei Ren , Xinlong Dong , Junjie Zeng , Wei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao

Recently, anomalous superdiffusion of ultra cold 87Rb atoms in an optical lattice has been observed along with a fat-tailed, L\'evy type, spatial distribution. The anomalous exponents were found to depend on the depth of the optical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-06 David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai

We study the effect of vertical electric-field (E-field) on the electronic properties of the multilayer armchair graphene nanoribbon (aGNR). Under E-field, the band structure of a bilayer aGNR undergoes interesting transformations such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Bala kumar , Jing Guo

The transition from the ballistic electron transport to the diffuse one is experimentally observed in the study of the magnetic phase transition in Ni nanocontacts with different sizes. It is shown that the voltage $U_C$ needed for Joule…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. G. Gatiyatov , V. N. Lisin , A. A. Bukharaev

The influence of electron-electron scattering on the distribution function and transport characteristics of intrinsic monolayer graphene is investigated via an ensemble Monte Carlo simulation. Due to the linear dispersion relation in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-18 X. Li , E. A. Barry , J. M. Zavada , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , K. W. Kim

Recently synthesized two-dimensional graphene-like material referred to as graphenylene is a semiconductor with a narrow direct bandgap that holds great promise for nanoelectronic applications. The significant bandgap increase can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Ruslan M. Meftakhutdinov , Renat T. Sibatov , Aleksey I. Kochaev

We investigate the impact of strained nanobubbles on the conductance characteristics of graphene nanoribbons using a combined molecular dynamics - tight-binding simulation scheme. We describe in detail how the conductance, density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 D. A. Bahamon , Zenan Qi , Harold S. Park , Vitor M. Pereira , David K. Campbell

We study theoretically the electron transport in a 1D conductor adiabatically connected to a superconducting and normal metal leads. In the case of non-interacting we show that ac voltage applied along with dc voltage modifies I-V curve…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. P. Aseev , S. N. Artemenko

A novel nanoelectronic device is constructed by graphyne that is robustly connected between graphene electrodes, where graphyne is composed of hexagonal carbon rings and carbon chains. Owing to similarities between the bond lengths and unit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-17 Young I. Jhon , Myung S. Jhon

Based on a tight-binding model and a recursive Green's function technique, spin-depentent ballistic transport through tinny graphene sheets (flakes) is studied. The main interest is focussed on: electrical conductivity, giant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Krompiewski

We investigated a multilayer graphene-dielectric composite material, comprising graphene sheets separated by subwavelength-thick dielectric spacer, and found it to exhibit hyperbolic isofrequency wavevector dispersion at far- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-26 Mohamed A. K. Othman , Caner Guclu , Filippo Capolino