Modeling electrolytically top-gated graphene

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 505-511

  Miskovic Z L ^a   Upadhyaya, Nitin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electrolyte; Gating; Graphene; Poisson Boltzmann model; Quantum capacitance

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; DEBYE SCREENING LENGTH; DOPING LEVELS; INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA; POISSON-BOLTZMANN; POISSON-BOLTZMANN EQUATIONS; POISSON-BOLTZMANN MODEL; QUANTUM CAPACITANCE; SALT CONCENTRATION; SIMPLE SALTS; SINGLE LAYER;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; CAPACITANCE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROLYTES; GRAPHITE; POISSON EQUATION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 77950518354     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11671-009-9515-3     Document Type: Article

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