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Conductance of metallic nanoribbons with defects |
| Deng Shi-Xian(邓诗贤) and Liang Shi-Dong(梁世东)† |
| State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Material and Technology and Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Display Material and Technology, School of Physics and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China |
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Abstract The conductances of two typical metallic graphene nanoribbons with one and two defects are studied using the tight binding model with the surface Green's function method. The weak scattering impurities, U～1 eV, induce a dip in the conductance near the Fermi energy for the narrow zigzag graphene nanoribbons. As the impurity scattering strength increases, the conductance behavior at the Fermi energy becomes more complicated and depends on the impurity location, the AA and AB sites. The impurity effect then becomes weak and vanishes with the increase in the width of the zigzag graphene nanoribbons (150 nm). For the narrow armchair graphene nanoribbons, the conductance at the Fermi energy is suppressed by the impurities and becomes zero with the increase in impurity scattering strength, U >100 eV, for two impurities at the AA sites, but becomes constant for the two impurities at the AB sites. As the width of the graphene nanoribbons increases, the impurity effect on the conductance at the Fermi energy depends sensitively on the vacancy location at the AA or AB sites.
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Received: 03 October 2011
Revised: 17 November 2011
Accepted manuscript online:
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PACS:
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73.63.-b
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(Electronic transport in nanoscale materials and structures)
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72.80.Vp
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(Electronic transport in graphene)
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72.10.Fk
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(Scattering by point defects, dislocations, surfaces, and other imperfections (including Kondo effect))
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| Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants Nos. 10774194 and 51072236), the Elite Student Program from National Education Department, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. |
Corresponding Authors:
Liang Shi-Dong,stslsd@mail.sysu.edu.cn
E-mail: stslsd@mail.sysu.edu.cn
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Cite this article:
Deng Shi-Xian(邓诗贤) and Liang Shi-Dong(梁世东) Conductance of metallic nanoribbons with defects 2012 Chin. Phys. B 21 047306
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