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The concept of a novel graphene P-I-N junction switching device with a nanoribbon is proposed, and its basic operation is demonstrated in an experiment. The concept aims to optimize the operation scheme for graphene transistors toward a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-15 Shu Nakaharai , Tomohiko Iijima , Shinichi Ogawa , Hisao Miyazaki , Songlin Li , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi , Shintaro Sato , Naoki Yokoyama

We achieve fine tuning of graphene effective doping by applying ultrahigh pressures (> 10 GPa) using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) diamond tips. Specific areas in graphene flakes are irreversibly flattened against a SiO2 substrate. Our work…

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

Herein, we investigate the structural, electronic and mechanical properties of zigzag graphene nanoribbons upon the presence of stress applying Density Functional Theory within the GGA-PBE approximation. The uniaxial stress is applied along…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Ricardo Faccio , Pablo A. Denis , Helena Pardo , Cecilia Goyenola , Alvaro W. Mombru

We investigate bilayers of nanoporous graphene (NPG), laterally bonded carbon nanoribbons, and graphene. The electronic and transport properties are explored as a function of the interlayer twist angle using an atomistic tight-binding model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Xabier Diaz de Cerio , Aleksander Bach Lorentzen , Mads Brandbyge , Aran Garcia-Lekue

The effects of thermal fluctuations on the morphology of two-dimensional materials are hard to harness. We propose that a geometrically constrained graphene nanoribbon (GNR) can exhibit thermally activated snap-through transitions with a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-18 Renjie Zhao , Yiquan Zhang , Chenglin Luo , Yihang Wang

With the ability to selectively control ionic flux, biological protein ion channels perform a fundamental role in many physiological processes. For practical applications that require the functionality of a biological ion channel, graphene…

In this paper, we propose a combined modeling of molecular mechanics (MM) and the tight-binding (TB) approach, which enables us to study the effect of factors such as external local forces, constraints, and vacancy defects on electronic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Mahnoosh Rostami , Isa Ahmadi , Farhad Khoeini

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are a novel and intriguing class of materials in the field of nanoelectronics, since their properties, solely defined by their width and edge type, are controllable with high precision directly from synthesis.…

We report a first-principles study of the electronic structure of functionalized graphene nano-ribbon (aGNRs-f) by organic functional group (CH2C6H5) and find that CH2C6H5 functionalized group does not produce any electronic states in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-24 Nuo Liu , Zheqi Zheng , Yongxin Yao , Guiping Zhang , Ning Lu , Pingjian Li , Caizhuang Wang , Kaiming Ho

We report on a double quantum dot which is formed in a width-modulated etched bilayer graphene nanoribbon. A number of lateral graphene gates enable us to tune the quantum dot energy levels and the tunneling barriers of the device over a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-20 Stefan Fringes , Christian Volk , Bernat Terrés , Jan Dauber , Stephan Engels , Stefan Trellenkamp , Christoph Stampfer

Controlling the forbidden gap of graphene nano-ribbons (GNR) is a major challenge that has to be attained if this attractive material has to be used in micro- and nano-electronics. Using an unambiguous notation {m,n}-GNR, where m (n) is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 J. A. Vergés , G. Chiappe , E. Louis

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

This work reports flexible fully transparent high-voltage diodes that feature high rectification ratio (Rr 10 8) and high breakdown voltage (Vb 150 V) simultaneously, combined with their applications as building blocks of energy management…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-09-21 Yonghui Zhang , Zengxia Mei , Tao Wang , Wenxing Huo , Shujuan Cui , Huili Liang , Xiaolong Du

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

The electronic properties of two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures can be dramatically altered by varying the relative angle between the layers. This makes it theoretically possible to realize a new class of twistable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-03 Rebeca Ribeiro-Palau , Changjian Zhang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , Cory R. Dean

Void defect is a possible origin of ferromagnetic like feature of pure carbon material. Applying density functional theory to void defect induced graphene nano ribbon (GNR), a detailed relationship between multiple spin state and structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-06 Norio Ota , Laszlo Nemes

Graphene nanoribbons have attracted attention for their novel electronic and spin transport properties1-6, and because nanoribbons less than 10 nm wide have a band gap that can be used to make field effect transistors. However, producing…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Liying Jiao , Xinran Wang , Georgi Diankov , Hailiang Wang , Hongjie Dai

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have garnered significant interest due to their highly customizable physicochemical properties and potential utility in nanoelectronics. Besides controlling widths and edge structures, the inclusion of chirality…

We propose an analytical device model for a graphene nanoribbon field-effect transistor (GNR-FET). The GNR-FET under consideration is based on a heterostructure which consists of an array of nanoribbons clad between the highly conducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Ryzhii , A. Satou , V. Ryzhii , T. Otsuji