Retracted: Electrical conductivity of hydrogenated armchair nanoribbon as a gas sensor using non-equilibrium Green's function method

Abstract

RetractionThis article was mistakenly published twice. For this reason this duplicate article has now been retracted. For citation purposes please cite the original: http://www.inljournal.com/?_action=articleInfo&article=16 Abstract Nanosensing properties of hydrogenated edge armchair graphene nanoribbons (HAGNR) are investigated. Using non-equilibrium Green's function method in the tight-binding approach, the effects of hydrogen and oxygen adsorption on current-voltage (I-V) characteristics and also the electrical conductivity of these systems are calculated. We found that the I-V curves of these systems change by the adsorption of hydrogen or oxygen molecules. Also, we found that conductivity of these systems at low adsorption concentrations increases, while at high adsorption, concentrations decrease. This could be explained in terms of semiconducting or metallic properties of the adsorbed system which was obtained from electronic properties of our clean HAGNR system. On the other hand, the local density of states of some sites has a metallic behavior, and that of other sites has a semiconducting behavior. Note that our results are investigated at a fixed temperature T = 300 K, i.e., room temperature. By calibrating conductivity in terms of adsorbed gas molecules, one can make a gas nanosensor.

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