Enhanced conductance fluctuation by quantum confinement effect in graphene nanoribbons

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4590-4594

  Xu, Guangyu ^a   Torres Jr , Carlos M ^a   Song, Emil B ^a   Tang, Jianshi ^a   Bai, Jingwei ^a   Duan, Xiangfeng ^a   Zhang, Yuegang ^b   Wang, Kang L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

band structure; electrical probing; Graphene nanoribbon; low frequency noise; quantum transport

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTANCE FLUCTUATION; CONDUCTANCE MEASUREMENT; DENSITY-OF-STATES; ELECTRICAL PROBING; GRAPHENE NANORIBBON; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; LOW-FREQUENCY NOISE; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; QUANTUM TRANSPORT; SINGLE LAYER; SUB-BANDS; SUBBAND STRUCTURES;

BAND STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; GRAPHENE; HUBBARD MODEL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; THERMAL NOISE;

ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM THEORY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRAPHITE; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 78449275545     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl1025979     Document Type: Article

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