Robust ballistic transport in narrow armchair-edge graphene nanoribbons with chemical edge disorder

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1082-1085

  Gunlycke, Daniel ^a   Mintmire, John W ^b   White, Carter T ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLISTIC TRANSPORTS; BAND GAPS; DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; SCATTERING POTENTIALS; SEMIEMPIRICAL MODELS;

FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BALLISTICS;

EID: 77950556292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz100046q     Document Type: Article

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