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An interesting property of zigzag graphene nanoribbons is the presence of edge states which are extended along its borders but localized in the transverse direction. We show that because of this property, electron transport through an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-02 Gonzalo Usaj

Spintronics devices rely on spin-dependent transport behavior evoked by the presence of spin-polarized electrons. Transport through nanostructures, on the other hand, is dominated by strong Coulomb interaction. We study a model system in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Jürgen König , Jan Martinek , Jozef Barnas , Gerd Schön

The nonlinear spin-dependent transport properties in zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) edge doped by an atom of group III and V elements are studied systematically using density functional theory combined with non-equilibrium Greens…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-01 C. Jiang , X. F. Wang , M. X. Zhai

Here, we report an alternative route to achieve two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a semiconductor structure. It has been shown that charge accumulation on the side facets can lead to the formation of 2DEG in a network of c-axis…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 H. P. Bhasker , Varun Thakur , S. M. Shivaprasad , S. Dhar

We study numerically the effects of edge and bulk disorder on the conductance of graphene nanoribbons. We compute the conductance suppression due to localization induced by edge scattering. We find that even for weak edge roughness,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eduardo R. Mucciolo , Antonio H. Castro Neto , Caio H. Lewenkopf

We will present brief overview on the electronic and transport properties of graphene nanoribbons focusing on the effect of edge shapes and impurity scattering. The low-energy electronic states of graphene have two non-equivalent massless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Yositake Takane , Masayuki Yamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

We investigate quantum transport properties of triangular graphene flakes with zigzag edges by using first principles calculations. Triangular graphene flakes have large magnetic moments which vary with the number of hydrogen atoms…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-05 Hasan Sahin , R. Tugrul Senger , Salim Ciraci

The electronic transport properties of two junctions (BGB, GBG) made of borophene (B) and graphene (G) are investigated. Using the transfer matrix method with Chebyshev polynomials, we have studied single and multiple barriers in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Nadia Benlakhouy , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal

We theoretically study the influence of impurity scattering on the electric and thermal transport of borophane layer, a two-dimensional anisotropic Dirac semi-metal with two tilted and anisotropic Dirac cones. In a systematic framework, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Moslem Zare

We report photocarrier time-of-flight measurements in diode structures made of highly porous crystalline silicon. The corresponding electron and hole drift mobilities are very small compared to homogeneous crystalline silicon. They show two…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. N. Rao , E. A. Schiff , L. Tsybeskov , P. M. Fauchet

Graphene has shown impressive properties for nanoelectronics applications including a high mobility and a width-dependent bandgap. Use of graphene in nanoelectronics would most likey be in the form of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yinxiao Yang , Raghunath Murali

Spin-polarized density functional theory calculations have been performed on armchair graphene quantum dots and boron-nitride quantum dots (A-G/BN-QDs) and the effect of carbon/boron-nitride substitution on the electronic properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-20 Sharma SRKC Yamijala , Arkamita Bandhyopadyay , Swapan K Pati

The generalized Bloch theorem was applied to calculate the spin stiffness and to consider its tendencies when introducing the doping in zigzag graphene nanoribbons. To reach the intentions, two different flat spin spiral formations were…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-30 Teguh Budi Prayitno , Fumiyuki Ishii

We consider gated graphene nanoribbons subject to Berry-Mondragon boundary conditions in the presence of weak impurities. Using field--theoretical methods, we calculate the density of charge carriers (and, thus, the quantum capacitance) as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-07 C. G. Beneventano , I. V. Fialkovsky , E. M. Santangelo , D. V. Vassilevich

Spin dependent electron transport measurements on graphene are of high importance to explore possible spintronic applications. Up to date all spin transport experiments on graphene were done in a semi-classical regime, disregarding quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 M. H. D. Guimaraes , P. J. Zomer , I. J. Vera-Marun , B. J. van Wees

We report a first-principles based study of mesoscopic quantum transport in chemically doped graphene nanoribbons with a width up to 10 nm. The occurrence of quasibound states related to boron impurities results in mobility gaps as large as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-09 Blanca Biel , François Triozon , X. Blase , Stephan Roche

We investigate a novel way to manipulate the spin polarized transmission in a two terminal zigzag graphene nanoribbon in presence of Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction with circular shaped cavity engraved into it. A usual technique to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Sudin Ganguly , Saurabh Basu , Santanu K. Maiti

We investigate the transport properties of pristine zigzag-edged borophene nanoribbons (ZBNRs) of different widths, using the fist-principles calculations. We choose ZBNRs with widths of 5 and 6 as odd and even widths. The differences of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-14 Jiayi Liu , Changpeng Chen , Lu Han , Ziqing Zhu , Jinping Wu

A theoretical study of the transport properties of zigzag and armchair graphene nanoribbons with a magnetic barrier on top is presented. The magnetic barrier modifies the energy spectrum of the nanoribbons locally, which results in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-19 Hengyi Xu , T. Heinzel , M. Evaldsson , I. V. Zozoulenko

We investigate the finite temperature magnetic order at the edges of hexagonal CrN nanoribbons by using the density-functional theory combined with the density-matrix renormalization group method. Moreover, the spin-dependent transport in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Michał Kupczyński , Jarosław Pawłowski , Aybey Mogulkoc , Mohsen Modarresi