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The resistance of dual-gated bilayer graphene is measured as a function of temperature and gating electric fields in the Corbino geometry which precludes edge transport. The temperature-dependent resistance is quantitatively described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-07 Jun Yan , Michael S. Fuhrer

Electronic transport with a line (or a few lines) of Anderson type disorder in a zigzag graphene nanoribbon is investigated in presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Such line disorders give rise to peculiar behavior in both charge as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-01 Sudin Ganguly , Saurabh Basu , Santanu K. Maiti

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…

Experimental realization of two-dimensional boron sheets was reported very recently by Feng et. al. using molecular beam epitaxy on silver (111) surface. These boron sheets possess promising electronic and transport properties. We performed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Vivekanand Shukla , Anton Grigoriev , Naresh K. Jena , Rajeev Ahuja

We investigate the spin-polarized ballistic transport in a three-terminal Zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) device using a tight binding model, non-equilibrium Green function formalism within the Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker framework. We study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Niharika Tamuli , Saumen Acharjee

We study spin and valley-dependent transport properties in an n-p-n junction of 8-pmmn borophene monolayer. An external gate voltage and exchange magnetic field, induced by the proximity effect of a ferromagnetic insulator, are applied to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Fatemeh Imanian Mofrad Bidgoli , Hossein Nikoofard , Narges Nikoofard , Mahdi Esmaeilzadeh

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

We unveil the nature of the structural disorder in bottom-up zigzag graphene nanoribbons along with its effect on the magnetism and electronic transport on the basis of scanning probe microscopies and first-principles calculations. We find…

We have investigated the effects of the interfacial bond arrangement on the electronic transport features of metal-nanotube-metal systems. The transport properties of finite, defect-free armchair and zigzag single-walled carbon nanotubes…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Ioannis Deretzis , Antonino La Magna

In this work spin transport in corrugated armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNR) is studied. We survey combined effects of spin-orbit interaction and surface roughness, employing the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism and four…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Zahra Chaghazardi , Shoeib Babaee Touski , Rahim Faez , Mahdi Pourfath

We study the impact of the valence and the geometry on the electronic structure and transport properties of different transition metal-benzene sandwich molecules bridging the tips of a Cu nanocontact. Our density-functional calculations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 M. Karolak , D. Jacob

We study the influence of nonuniform magnetic fields on the magneto conductance of mesoscopic microstructures. We show that the coupling of the electron spin to the inhomogenous field gives rise to effects of the Berry phase on ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Diego Frustaglia , Klaus Richter

The evolution of electronic wave packets (WPs) through grain boundaries (GBs) of various structures in graphene was investigated by the numerical solution of the time-dependent Schroedinger equation. WPs were injected from a simulated STM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-12 Péter Vancsó , Géza I. Márk , Philippe Lambin , Alexandre Mayer , Yong-Sung Kim , Chanyong Hwang , László P. Biró

We performed a series of theoretical transport studies on Y-branch electron waveguides which are embedded in mid-size armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs). Non-equilibrium Greens function (NEGF) with different approximations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Vahid Mosallanejad , Kuei-Lin Chiu , Guo-ping Guo

Numerical calculations have been performed to elucidate unconventional electronic transport properties in disordered nanographene ribbons with zigzag edges (zigzag ribbons). The energy band structure of zigzag ribbons has two valleys that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-07 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Yositake Takane , Masayuki Yamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

We study the electric and thermoelectric transport properties of correlated quantum dots coupled to two ferromagnetic leads and one superconducting electrode. Transport through such hybrid devices depends on the interplay of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Krzysztof P. Wojcik , Ireneusz Weymann

Electronic structure and transport characteristics of coupled CdS and ZnSe quantum dots are studied using density functional theory and non equilibrium Greens function method respectively. Our investigations show that in these novel coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Simon Liebing , Torsten Hahn , Jens Kortus , Bidisa Das , Arup Chakraborty , Indra Dasgupta

Inspired by the successful synthesis of several allotropes, boron sheets have been one of the hottest spot areas of focus in various fields. Here, we study phonon transport in three types of boron nanoribbons with zigzag and armchair edges…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-12 Zhongwei Zhang , Yuee Xie , Qing Peng , Yuanping Chen

We present first-principles calculations of quantum transport in chemically doped graphene nanoribbons with a width of up to 4 nm. The presence of boron and nitrogen impurities is shown to yield resonant backscattering, whose features are…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-03-03 Blanca Biel , X. Blase , François Triozon , Stephan Roche

Spin and charge transport through a quantum dot coupled to external nonmagnetic leads is analyzed theoretically in terms of the non-equilibrium Green function formalism based on the equation of motion method. The dot is assumed to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Swirkowicz , J. Barnas , M. Wilczynski