Electrostatic confinement of electrons in graphene nanoribbons

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Liu, Xinglan ^a   Oostinga, Jeroen B ^a,b   Morpurgo, Alberto F ^b   Vandersypen, Lieven M K ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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EID: 70350680476     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.121407     Document Type: Article

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