Silicene, a silicon counterpart of graphene, has been predicted to possess massless Dirac
fermions. Compared to graphene, the effective spin-orbit interaction is quite significant …

A tutorial on non-equilibrium Green's function theory and its applications on nanoscale
devices is presented. A stepwise tutorial presentation, starting from the concept of Green's …

Rigorous efforts are invested globally in the semiconductor industry to leverage next-
generation nanoelectronics beyond Moore's law. Among them, silicene is foreseen as a …

Moore's law is approaching its limit due to various challenges, especially the size limit of the
transistors. The International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS), the successor of …

Driven by the scaling down of transistor node technology, graphene became of interest to
many researchers following the success of its fabrication as graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) …

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are narrow strips of graphene which show interesting
electronic properties. The occurrence of defects (vacancy, line, impurity) in GNR can alter …

Silicene is an emerging two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor material which has been
envisaged to be compatible with conventional silicon technology. This paper presents a …

Silicene is a two-dimensional (2D) derivative of silicon (Si) arranged in honeycomb lattice. It
is predicted to be compatible with the present fabrication technology. However, its gapless …

The effects of one and two line defects are investigated with respect to the band structures
and local density of states (LDOS) in armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) under the …

This work investigates the effect of defects on the electron density profiles of nanowire FETs
with a rectangular cross-section. It also presents a framework for the discretization of the …