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Long, stable and free-standing linear atomic carbon wires have been carved out from graphene recently [Meyer et al: Nature (London) 2008, 454, 319; Jin et al: Phys: Rev: Lett: 2009, 102, 205501]. They can be considered as the extremely…
In this article we develop an effective medium model to characterize the electron wave propagation in graphene based nanostructures with an electrostatic and magnetic vector potentials imposed on their surface. We use a numerical algorithm…
The main goal of our study was investigation of the influence of the deformations (sufficiently large for the establishing the non-zero gap) on electrotransport properties of impure graphene. To achieve this purpose, we implemented the…
The electronic transport properties of single layer graphene having a dilute coating of indium adatoms has been investigated. Our studies establish that isolated indium atoms donate electrons to graphene and become a source of charged…
We present an interpolative method for describing coherent transport through an interacting quantum dot. The idea of the method is to construct an approximate electron self-energy which becomes exact both in the limits of weak and strong…
We consider graphene on monolayer WSe$_2$ and the spin-orbit coupling induced by the transition-metal dichalcogenide substrate for application to spin-active devices. We study quantum dots and graphene quantum rings as tunable spin filters…
The superior intrinsic properties of graphene have been a key research focus for the past few years. However, external components, such as metallic contacts, serve not only as essential probing elements, but also give rise to an effective…
The extremely high carrier mobility and the unique band structure, make graphene very useful for field-effect transistor applications. According to several works, the primary limitation to graphene based transistor performance is not…
The quantum transport formalism based on tight-binding models is known to be powerful in dealing with a wide range of open physical systems subject to external driving forces but is, at the same time, limited by the memory requirement's…
Interactions of magnetic elements with graphene may lead to various electronic states that have potential applications. We report an in-situ experiment in which the quantum transport properties of graphene are measured with increasing…
The $\pi$-electronic structure of graphene in the presence of a modulated electric potential is investigated by the tight-binding model. The low-energy electronic properties are strongly affected by the period and field strength. Such a…
Pristine graphene and graphene-based heterostructures exhibit exceptionally high electron mobility and conductance if their surface contains few electron-scattering impurities. Here, we reveal a universal connection between graphene's…
We study transport of two-dimensional quasi-relativistic electronic excitations in graphene in the presence of static long-range-correlated random scalar and vector potentials. Using a combination of perturbation theory and path-integral…
Graphene, a 2-dimensional monolayer form of sp2 hybridizated carbon atoms, is attracting increasing attention due to its unique and superior physicochemical properties. Covalently functionalized graphene layers, with their modifiable…
We study electronic quantum transport in graphene nanoribbon (GNR) networks on mesoscopic length scales. We focus on zigzag GNRs and investigate the conductance properties of statistical networks. To this end we use a…
We have performed a theoretical study of electronic transport in single and bilayer graphene based on the standard linear-response (Kubo) formalism and continuum-model descriptions of the graphene band structure. We are focusing especially…
We study theoretically electronic transport through a contact of a quantum wire with 2D or 3D leads and find that if the contact is not smooth and adiabatic then the conduction is strongly suppressed below a threshold voltage $V_T$, while…
Applying a quasiclassical equation to carriers in graphene we found a way how to distinguish between samples with the domination of short and long range scatterers from the conductivity measurements. The model proposed explains recent…
The conductance steps in a constricted two-dimensional electron gas and the minimum conductivity in graphene are related to a new uncertainty relation between electric charge and conductance in a quantized electric circuit that mimics the…
Graphene has attracted much attention as one of promising candidates of future high-speed transistor materials because of its high carrier mobility of more than 10,000 cm2 V-1 s-1. Up to this point, we have focused on the contact properties…