Random vacancy effect on the electronic transport of zigzag graphene nanoribbon using recursive Green’s function》.pdf

Computational Materials Science 101 (2015) 156–163 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Computational Materials Science journal homepage: www.elsevier .com/locate/commatsci Random vacancy effect on the electronic transport of zigzag graphene nanoribbon using recursive Green’s function Maryam Jamaati a,⇑, Afshin Namiranian a,b a Material Simulation Laboratory, Department of Physics, Iran University of Science and Technology, Narmak, 16846-13114, Tehran, Iran b Computational Physical Science Laboratory, Department of Nano-Science, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), PO Box 19395-5531, Tehran, Iran a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The electrical conductance of zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) is numerically investigated in the Received 12 November 2014 presence of different percentages of edge and middle vacancies. The vacancies are randomly distributed Received in revised form 19 January 2015 in the edge or innermost of ZGNRs. We take advantage of recursive Green’s function under tight-binding Accepted 25 January 2015 model to study the electrical conductance. It is found that in the both vacancy types, and all widths and Available online 16 February 2015 lengths of our samples, the conductance degrades as the vacancy concentration increases. In addition, we illustrate how transport properties are sensitive to the width and length of nanoribbon. At fixed defect Keywords: