Oxygen surface functionalization of graphene nanoribbons for transport gap engineering

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 9271-9277

  Cresti, Alessandro ^a   Lopez Bezanilla, Alejandro ^b   Ordejón, Pablo ^c   Roche, Stephan ^c,d  

^a MINATEC   (France)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

functionalization; graphene nanoribbons; mobility gap; numerical simulation; quantum transport

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; CONDUCTANCE PROPERTIES; CONTROL CURRENT; ELECTRON-HOLE TRANSPORT; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; INHOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; INTRINSIC ENERGY; MEAN FREE PATH; MOBILITY GAP; ON/OFF RATIO; OXYGEN ATOM; OXYGEN SURFACE; QUANTUM TRANSPORT; SCALING ANALYSIS;

ADSORBATES; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPHENE; HOLE MOBILITY; OXYGEN; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 81855218220     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203573y     Document Type: Article

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