Edges bring new dimension to graphene nanoribbons

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3638-3642

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

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

band gap; density functional theory; Graphene nanoribbon; H ckel; tight binding; twist

Indexed keywords

BAND GAPS; DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; GRAPHENE NANORIBBON; TIGHT BINDING; TWIST;

ENERGY GAP; GRAPHENE; HUBBARD MODEL;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 77956447836     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl102034c     Document Type: Article

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