Electron transport properties through multilayers of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) sandwiched between gold electrodes is investigated by density functional theory together with the non-equilibrium Green's function method. ...

Graphene has received great attention due to its exceptional properties, which include corners with zero effective mass, extremely large mobilities, this could render it the new template for the next generation of electronic ...

Currently, the construction of sensors plays an important role in electronics and bioelectronics, due to the wide range of novel applications for biomedical research, food quality control and environmental monitoring. The ...

The study of biosensors based on graphene has increased in the last years, the combination of excellent electrical properties and low noise makes graphene a material for next generation electronic devices. This work discusses ...

The effects of histidine and its imidazole ring adsorption on the electronic transport properties of graphene were investigated by first-principles calculations within a combination of density functional theory and ...

In this paper, we present a theoretical investigation of an all-electronic biochip based on graphene to detect DNA including a full dynamical treatment for the environment. Our proposed device design is based on the changes ...

We modeled a type of field-effect transistor device based on graphene for the recognition of amino acids with a potential application in the building of a protein sequencer. The theoretical model used was a combination of ...

The bulk carrier mobility in graphene was shown to be enhanced in graphene/boron nitride heterostructures. However, nanopatterning graphene can add extra damage and drastically degrade the intrinsic properties by edge ...