Electronic transport properties and first-principles study of graphene/h-BN and h-BN bilayers

We use a tight binding approach to study of electron transport properties of bilayers of zig-zag graphene/h-BN nanoribbon (GBNNR) and h-BN nanoribbon (BNNR) embedded between two bilayer of zig-zag graphene nanoribbons (GNR), which are considered as electrodes. In this study, the parameters of tight biding hopping and on-site energies are obtained by comparing the tight binding band structure graphene/h-BN and h-BN bilayers with density functional theory (DFT) calculations. We numerically compute the transport properties in terms of transmission and current-voltage characteristic. Our calculations show that the electron transport can open a conduction gap in the GNR/BNNR/GNR structure.