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Strain-induced negative differential resistance in armchair-edge graphene nanoribbons

  • Hui Fang
  • , Ru Zhi Wang*
  • , Si Ying Chen
  • , Mi Yan
  • , Xue Mei Song
  • , Bo Wang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beijing University of Technology
  • Beijing Institute of Technology
  • Wuhan University

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Abstract

The transport properties of graphene strips under tensile strain have been theoretically investigated. For the armchair-edge graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with width N=3m-1, the additional negative differential resistance (NDR) undergoes a process from occurring to enhancement and then disappearance with increasing tensile strain. The changes in the additional NDR may be originated from the suppression of strain-mediated channel states for the variations in degenerate energy bands near Fermi level. The strain-induced NDR behaviors of the GNRs present the possibility of the potential applications in electromechanical nanodevices such as stress-controlled Goto pair for digital signal restoration.

Original languageEnglish
Article number082108
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume98
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Feb 2011
Externally publishedYes

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