Transport properties of graphene nanoribbon heterostructures

Abstract

We study the electronic and transport properties of heterostructures formed by armchair graphene nanoribbons with intersections of finite length. We describe the system by a tight-binding model and calculate the density of states and the conductance within the Green's function formalism based on real-space renormalization techniques. We show the apparition of interface states and bound states in the continuum which present a strong dependence of the heterostructure geometry. We investigate the effects on the conductance of an external perturbation applied on the edges atoms of the intersection region.

3 pages, 4 figures. To appear in Microelectronic Journal