Electrostatic confinement of charge carriers in graphene is governed by Klein tunnelling, a relativistic quantum process in which particle–hole transmutation leads to unusual anisotropic transmission at p–n junction boundaries1–5. Reflection and transmission at these boundaries a ect the quantum interference of electronic waves, enabling the formation of novel quasi-bound states6–12. Here we re...

A 0.4 mm long semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube is doped into n type by potassium ~K! vapor. Electrical measurements of the doped nanotube reveal single-electron charging at temperatures up to 160 K. The K-doped sample manifests as a single quantum dot or multiple quantum dots in series depending on the range of applied gate voltage. This is explained by an inhomogeneous doping profi...

the effect of impurities on quantum chemical parameters of single-walled nanotubes (swnts) was studied using density functional theory (dft). the density of states (dos), fermi energy and thermodynamic energies of (5,5) carbon nanotubes were calculated in the presence of nitrogen impurity. it was found that this nanotube remains metallic after being doped with one nitrogen atom. the partial den...

Patterned growth of multilayer graphene shell encapsulated gold nanoparticles (GNPs) and their covalent linking with inorganic quantum dots are demonstrated. GNPs were grown using a xylene chemical vapor deposition process, where the surface oxidized gold nanoparticles catalyze the multilayer graphene shell growth in a single step process. The graphene shell encapsulating gold nanoparticles cou...

The paper presents a survey of literature on the structure and optical properties of ZnS and copper ion-doped ZnS quantum dots. The effect of other metal dopants on the spectral properties of ZnS:Cu quantum dots was also considered. The influence of such parameters as dopant concentration, temperature of the synthesis and compounds which form or modify the additional layer on dots on spectral p...

We investigate the effect of nitrogen and boron doping on Li diffusion through defected graphene using first principles based density functional theory. While a high energy barrier rules out the possibility of Li- diffusion through the pristine graphene, the barrier reduces with the incorporation of defects. Among the most common defects in pristine graphene, Li diffusion through the divacancy ...

A novel approach to link graphene quantum dots (GQDs) with graphene was explored via chemical surface modification of graphene using 1,5-diaminonapthalene (DAN).