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HL: Fachverband Halbleiterphysik

HL 66: Focus Session on 2D Materials: Ballistic Quantum Transport in Graphene (jointly with DY, DS, HL, MA, O)

HL 66.8: Talk

Thursday, March 23, 2017, 12:45–13:00, HSZ 03

Current flow paths in deformed graphene and carbon nanotubes — Erik Kleinherbers, •Nikodem Szpak, and Ralf Schützhold — Faculty of Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Due to imminent applications in nanoelectronics it is of high interest to understand the precise conductance properties of deformed graphene and bent carbon nanotubes. Since low-energy electronic excitations behave like massless Dirac fermions the current flow can be approximated semiclassically and used as a guide in the design of conducting nanoelectronic elements and nanosenors. Taking into account the curvature effects as well as an emerging inhomogeneous pseudo-magnetic field we calculate the current flow paths theoretically and compare them with numerical simulations of the full electronic transport.