• 文献标题:   Structural defects influence on the conductance of strained zigzag graphene nanoribbon
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SOLEIMANI M, JALILI S, MAHFOUZI F
  • 作者关键词:   zigzag graphene nanoribbon, structural defect, uniaxial strain, spincharge transport, rashba spinorbit coupling, tightbinding
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICA ELOWDIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS NANOSTRUCTURES
  • ISSN:   1386-9477 EI 1873-1759
  • 通讯作者地址:   KN Toosi Univ Technol
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.physe.2017.06.020
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

In this paper, we investigate the influence of point structural defects on the transport properties of zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) under uniaxial strain field, using the numerical studies based on the ab-initio calculation, the standard tight-binding model and Green's functions. The calculation results show that the direction of applied strain and defect type significantly affect the conductance properties of ZGNRs. The conductance of the defective nanoribbons generally decreases and some dips corresponding to complete electron backscattering is appeared. This behavior is originated from the different coupling between the conducting electronic states influenced by the wave function modification around the Fermi energy which depends on the defect type. We show that the presence of defects leads to a significant increase in local current. Furthermore, we have investigated the strain-tunable spin transport of defective ZGNRs in the presence of the exchange magnetic field and Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC).