title: Chirality effect in disordered graphene ribbon junctions.
abstract: We investigate the influence of edge chirality on the electronic transport in clean or disordered graphene ribbon junctions. By using the tight-binding model and the Landauer-Büttiker formalism, the junction conductance is obtained. In the clean sample, the zero-magnetic-field junction conductance is strongly chirality-dependent in both unipolar and bipolar ribbons, whereas the high-magnetic-field conductance is either chirality-independent in the unipolar or chirality-dependent in the bipolar ribbon. Furthermore, we study the disordered sample in the presence of magnetic field and find that the junction conductance is always chirality-insensitive for both unipolar and bipolar ribbons with adequate disorders. In addition, the disorder-induced conductance plateaus can exist in all chiral bipolar ribbons provided the disorder strength is moderate. These results suggest that we can neglect the effect of edge chirality in fabricating electronic devices based on the magnetotransport in a disordered graphene ribbon.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, People's Republic of China. longwen@mail.cnu.edu.cn
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Long
mesh_terms: D004553:Electric Conductivity; D004563:Electrochemistry / Q000379:methods*; D004581:Electronics; D006108:Graphite / Q000737:chemistry*; D060526:Magnetic Fields; D008280:Magnetics; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011789:Quantum Theory; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D006108:Graphite