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Creating a good contact between electrodes and graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) has been a longstanding challenge in searching for the next GNR-based nanoelectronics. This quest requires the controlled fabrication of sub-20 nm metallic gaps, a…

Graphene nanoribbons are one-dimensional stripes of graphene with width- and edge-structure-dependent electronic properties. They can be synthesized bottom-up in solution to obtain precise ribbon geometries. Here we investigate the optical…

The fabrication of atomically precise structures with designer electronic properties is one of the emerging topics in condensed matter physics. The required level of structural control can either be reached through atomic manipulation using…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-29 Linghao Yan , Peter Liljeroth

This contribution reports on comparative studies on giant magnetoresistance (GMR) in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene nanoribbons of similar aspect ratios (i.e perimeter/length and width/length ratios, for the former and the latter,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-12 S. Krompiewski

In this paper, we study the conductance of the graphene nanoribbons(GNRs) in the presence of the Stone-Wales(S-W) reconstruction, using the transfer matrix method. The ribbon is connected with semi-infinite quantum wires as the leads. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-07 Jing Wang , Guiping Zhang , Fei Ye , Xiaoqun Wang

Chemically synthesized "cove"-type graphene nanoribbons (cGNRs) of different widths were brought into dispersion and drop-cast onto exfoliated hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on a Si/SiO2 chip. With AFM we observed that the cGNRs form ordered…

The directional control of light in miniaturized plasmonic waveguides holds appealing possibilities for emerging nanophotonic technologies, but is hindered by the intrinsic reciprocal optical response of conventional plasmonic materials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri , F. Javier García de Abajo , Joel D. Cox

Capacitance-voltage (C-V) characteristics are important for understanding fundamental electronic structures and device applications of nanomaterials. The C-V characteristics of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are examined using self-consistent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jing Guo , Youngki Yoon , Yijian Ouyang

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with atomically precise widths and edge topologies have well-defined band gaps that depend on ribbon dimensions, making them ideal for room-temperature switching applications like field-effect transistors (FETs).…

Large area graphene sheets grown by chemical vapor deposition can potentially be employed as a transparent electrode in photovoltaics if their sheet resistance can be significantly lowered, without any loss in transparency. Here, we report…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-16 Ahmed A. Maarouf , Amal Kasry , Bhupesh Chandra , Glenn J. Martyna

We theoretically investigate the electron transport in armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) chemically functionalized with p-polyphenyl and polyacene groups of increasing length. Our nearest-neighbor tight-binding calculations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-01 Kristiāns Čerņevičs , Michele Pizzochero , Oleg V. Yazyev

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

One of the ways to use graphene in field effect transistors is to introduce a band gap by quantum confinement effect [1]. That is why narrow graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with width less than 50nm are considered to be essential components in…

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

We perform first-principles calculations based on density functional theory to study quasi one-dimensional edge-passivated (with hydrogen) zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) of various widths with chemical dopants, boron and nitrogen,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-03-10 Sudipta Dutta , Arun K. Manna , Swapan K. Pati

We examine the possibility of using graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with directly substituted chromium atoms as spintronic device. Using density functional theory, we simulate a voltage bias across a constructed GNR in a device setup, where a…

The effects of electron interaction on the magnetoconductance of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are studied within the Hartree approximation. We find that a perpendicular magnetic field leads to a suppression instead of an expected improvement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 A. A. Shylau , I. V. Zozoulenko , H. Xu , T. Heinzel

Graph Transformers have recently attracted attention for molecular property prediction by combining the inductive biases of graph neural networks (GNNs) with the global receptive field of Transformers. However, many existing hybrid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yi Yang , Ovidiu Daescu

Graphene nanoribbon (GNR) emerges as an exceptionally promising channel candidate due to its tunable sizable bandgap (0-3 eV), ultrahigh carrier mobility (up to 4600 cm^(2) V^(-1) s^(-1)), and excellent device performance (current on-off…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 Linqiang Xu , Shiqi Liu , Qiuhui Li , Ying Li , Shibo Fang , Ying Guo , Yee Sin Ang , Chen Yang , Jing Lu

Finite graphene nanoribbon (GNR) heterostructures host intriguing topological in-gap states (Rizzo, D. J. et al.~\textit{Nature} \textbf{2018}, \textit{560}, 204]). These states may be localized either at the bulk edges, or at the ends of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 Jan-Philip Joost , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Michael Bonitz