Electronic transport in graphitic nanoribbon films

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1617-1622

  Behnam, Ashkan ^a   Johnson, Jason L ^a   An, Yanbin ^a   Biswas, Amlan ^b   Ural, Ant ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

film; graphitic; localization; magnetoresistance; nanoribbon; resistivity; variable range hopping

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITIC; LOCALIZATION; NANORIBBONS; RESISTIVITY; VARIABLE RANGE HOPPING;

CONDUCTIVE FILMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FILM PREPARATION; FORWARD SCATTERING; GRAPHENE; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOELECTRONICS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SHRINKAGE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

MULTILAYER FILMS;

GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GRAPHITE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 79952962841     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100855n     Document Type: Article

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