Defect symmetry influence on electronic transport of zigzag nanoribbons

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Zeng, Hui ^a,b   Leburton, Jean Pierre ^b,c   Xu, Yang ^d   Wei, Jianwei ^e  

^a YANGTZE UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

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

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CALCULATIONS; DEFECTS; GRAPHENE; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

CHARGE NEUTRALITY; DEFECT SYMMETRY; ELECTRON BACKSCATTERING; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; GRAPHENE NANO-RIBBON; STONE-WALES DEFECTS; TRANSPORT BEHAVIOR; NANORIBBONS; SUB-BANDS;

NANORIBBONS; DEFECTS;

EID: 82655175811     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-254     Document Type: Article

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