Aspects of electron transport in zigzag graphene nanoribbons

Abstract

We investigate the aspects of the electron transport in the zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) using the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. The latter is an esoteric tool in mesoscopic physics and using this tool the analysis is performed by considering the potential well within the system. Within this potential well, the dependence of the transmission coefficient, local density of states (LDOS) and the electron transport properties on the number of atoms per unit cell is discussed. We observe that the electron and thermal conductance increases with the increase of the number of atoms. In addition to these, the figure of merit which depends on these transport properties has also been studied and we find that the electrons' contribution to enhance the figure of merit is important above the crossover temperature.

8 pages, 8 figures

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