Edge effect on electronic transport properties of graphene nanoribbons and presence of perfectly conducting channel

Carbon

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 124-137

  Wakabayashi, Katsunori ^a,b   Takane, Yositake ^a   Yamamoto, Masayuki ^a   Sigrist, Manfred ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC STATES; IMPURITIES; LANDFORMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CONDUCTANCE QUANTUM; CONDUCTING CHANNELS; DIRAC POINTS; DISORDERED SYSTEMS; EDGE EFFECTS; EDGE STATES; EDGE STRUCTURES; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ENERGY BAND STRUCTURES; FLAT BANDS; GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; IMPURITY POTENTIALS; IMPURITY SCATTERINGS; MOMENTUM SPACES; NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS; SYMMETRY CONSIDERATIONS; ZIGZAG EDGES; ZIGZAG RIBBONS;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 56949084696     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2008.09.040     Document Type: Article

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