An analytical model for line-edge roughness limited mobility of graphene nanoribbons

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3725-3735

  Goharrizi, Arash Yazdanpanah ^a,b   Pourfath, Mahdi ^a,b   Fathipour, Morteza ^a   Kosina, Hans ^b   Selberherr, Siegfried ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Diffusive transport; effective band gap; graphene; localization; mobility; quantum transport

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT REGIME; EFFECTIVE BAND GAP; EFFECTIVE MASS; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; LINE EDGE ROUGHNESS; LOCALIZATION; LOCALIZATION LENGTH; MEAN FREE PATH; NANORIBBONS; QUANTUM TRANSPORT; ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS;

ELECTRON DEVICES; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 80054890770     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2011.2163719     Document Type: Article

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