Thermally limited current carrying ability of graphene nanoribbons

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 25, 2011, Pages

  Liao, Albert D ^a   Wu, Justin Z ^b,c   Wang, Xinran ^c   Tahy, Kristof ^d   Jena, Debdeep ^d   Dai, Hongjie ^c   Pop, Eric ^a,e  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT-CARRYING ABILITY; DEFECT SCATTERING; GRAPHENE DEVICES; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; HEAT SPREADING; HIGH FIELD TRANSPORT; MAXIMUM CURRENT DENSITY; SELF-HEATING; THERMAL DISSIPATION;

GRAPHENE; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 79960658023     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.256801     Document Type: Article

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