• 文献标题:   Electronic transport in armchair graphene nanoribbon under double magnetic barrier modulation
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WANG HY, WU C, XIE F, ZHANG XJ, ZHOU GH
  • 作者关键词:   gnr, magnetic barrier, electronic transport, conductance plateau, magnetoresistance
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICA BCONDENSED MATTER
  • ISSN:   0921-4526 EI 1873-2135
  • 通讯作者地址:   Yichun Univ
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.physb.2017.12.050
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

We present a theoretical investigation of the transport properties and the magnetoresistance effect in armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) under modulation by two magnetic barriers. The energy levels are found to be degenerate for a metallic AGNR but are not degenerate for a semiconducting AGNR. However, the conductance characteristics show quantized plateaus in both the metallic and semiconducting cases. When the magnetization directions of the barriers change from parallel to antiparallel, the conductance plateau in the metallic AGNR shows a degenerate feature due to matching between the transport modes in different regions. As the barrier height increases, the conductance shows more oscillatory behavior with sharp peaks and troughs. Specifically, the initial position of nonzero conductance for the metallic AGNR system moves towards a higher energy regime, which indicates that an energy gap has been opened. In addition, the magnetoresistance ratio also shows plateau structures in certain specific energy regions. These results may be useful in the design of electron devices based on AGNR nanostructures.