Ferromagnetism in armchair graphene nanoribbon heterostructures

Half - metallic Armchair Graphene Nanoribbon

Submitted for the MAR10 Meeting of The American Physical Society Half-metallic Armchair Graphene Nanoribbon FUMIYUKI ISHII, KEISUKE SAWADA, MINEO SAITO, Kanazawa University — Among a variety of applications of graphenes, spintronics applications are considered to be hopeful. For an example, spin transport has been experimentally observed by using graphene layers [1]. There are two types of shap...

Graphene nanoribbon heterojunctions and heterostructures

Flat-band ferromagnetism in armchair graphene nanoribbons

We study the electronic correlation effects in armchair graphene nanoribbons that have been recently proposed to be the building blocks of spin qubits. The armchair edges give rise to peculiar quantum interferences and lead to quenched kinetic energy of the itinerant carriers at appropriate doping level. This is a beautiful one-dimensional analogy of the Landaulevel formation in two dimensions ...

Transport properties of armchair graphene nanoribbon junctions between graphene electrodes.

The transmission properties of armchair graphene nanoribbon junctions between graphene electrodes are investigated by means of first-principles quantum transport calculations. First the dependence of the transmission function on the size of the nanoribbon has been studied. Two regimes are highlighted: for a small applied bias transport takes place via tunneling and the length of the ribbon is t...

Transport properties of graphene nanoribbon heterostructures

We study the electronic and transport properties of heterostructures formed by armchair graphene nanoribbons with intersections of finite length. We describe the system by a tight-binding model and calculate the density of states and the conductance within the Green’s function formalism based on real-space renormalization techniques. We show the apparition of interface states and bound states i...