Strain-induced negative differential resistance in armchair-edge graphene nanoribbons

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Fang, Hui ^a   Wang, Ru Zhi ^a   Chen, Si Ying ^b   Yan, Mi ^c   Song, Xue Mei ^a   Wang, Bo ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL STATE; DIGITAL SIGNALS; ENERGY BAND; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; NANO-DEVICES; NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCES; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS;

GRAPHENE; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

TENSILE STRAIN;

EID: 79952099062     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3556637     Document Type: Article

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