Projected performance advantage of multilayer graphene nanoribbons as a transistor channel material

Nano Research

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 8-15

  Ouyang, Yijian ^a   Dai, Hongjie ^b   Guo, Jing ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube (CNT); Field effect transistor; Graphene nanoribbon (GNR); Multilayer graphene; New channel material

Indexed keywords

EID: 74049159928     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-010-1002-8     Document Type: Article

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