Electronic states of graphene nanoribbons and analytical solutions

K Wakabayashi, K Sasaki, T Nakanishi… - … and technology of …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Graphene is a one-atom-thick layer of graphite, where low-energy electronic states are
described by the massless Dirac fermion. The orientation of the graphene edge determines …

Electronic properties of mesoscopic graphene structures: Charge confinement and control of spin and charge transport

AV Rozhkov, G Giavaras, YP Bliokh, V Freilikher, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2011 - Elsevier
This brief review discusses electronic properties of mesoscopic graphene-based structures.
These allow controlling the confinement and transport of charge and spin; thus, they are of …

Switching behavior of a heterostructure based on periodically doped graphene nanoribbon

S Wang, NT Hung, H Tian, MS Islam, R Saito - Physical Review Applied, 2021 - APS
We theoretically propose a switching device that operates at room temperature. The device
is an in-plane heterostructure based on a periodically boron-doped (nitrogen-doped) …

Charge transport in disordered graphene-based low dimensional materials

A Cresti, N Nemec, B Biel, G Niebler, F Triozon… - Nano Research, 2008 - Springer
Two-dimensional graphene, carbon nanotubes, and graphene nanoribbons represent a
novel class of low dimensional materials that could serve as building blocks for future …

Controllable valley and spin transport in ferromagnetic silicene junctions

T Yokoyama - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2013 - APS
We investigate charge, valley, and spin transports in a normal/ferromagnetic/normal silicene
junction. We show that the charge, valley, and spin conductances in this junction oscillate …

Electronic highways in bilayer graphene

Z Qiao, J Jung, Q Niu, AH MacDonald - Nano letters, 2011 - ACS Publications
Bilayer graphene with an interlayer potential difference has an energy gap and, when the
potential difference varies spatially, topologically protected one-dimensional states localized …

Electronic transport properties of graphene nanoribbons

K Wakabayashi, Y Takane, M Yamamoto… - New Journal of …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We will present a brief overview of the electronic and transport properties of graphene
nanoribbons focusing on the effect of edge shapes and impurity scattering. The low-energy …

Valley-layer coupling: a new design principle for valleytronics

ZM Yu, S Guan, XL Sheng, W Gao, SA Yang - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
The current valleytronics research is based on the paradigm of time-reversal-connected
valleys in two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal materials, which forbids the fully electric …

Carrier density and magnetism in graphene zigzag nanoribbons

J Jung, AH MacDonald - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2009 - APS
The influence of carrier density on magnetism in a zigzag graphene nanoribbon is studied in
a π-orbital Hubbard-model mean-field approximation. Departures from half filling alter the …

Pseudospin valve in bilayer graphene: towards graphene-based pseudospintronics

P San-Jose, E Prada, E McCann, H Schomerus - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
We propose a nonmagnetic, pseudospin-based version of a spin valve, in which the
pseudospin polarization in neighboring regions of a graphene bilayer is controlled by …