Damaging graphene with ozone treatment: A chemically tunable metal - Insulator transition

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 4033-4038

  Leconte, Nicolas ^a   Moser, Joël ^b   Ordejón, Pablo ^b   Tao, Haihua ^b   Lherbier, Aurélien ^a   Bachtold, Adrian ^b   Alsina, Francesc ^b   Sotomayor Torres, Clivia M ^b,c   Charlier, Jean Christophe ^b   Roche, Stephan ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

disordered graphene; metal insulator transition; numerical simulation; ozone treatment; quantum transport

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPHENE; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; OZONE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES;

CHARGE CONDUCTION; CONDUCTION PROPERTIES; DISORDERED GRAPHENE; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; INTERVALLEY SCATTERING; LOCALIZATION LENGTH; OZONE TREATMENT; QUANTUM TRANSPORT;

METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION;

EID: 77955540931     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100537z     Document Type: Article

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