A numerical study of line-edge roughness scattering in graphene nanoribbons

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 433-440

  Yazdanpanah, Arash ^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

Conductance; diffusive transport; effective band gap; graphene; localization; quantum transport

Indexed keywords

CARRIER ENERGY; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DIFFUSIVE REGIME; DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; EFFECTIVE BAND GAP; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; LINE EDGE ROUGHNESS; LOCALIZATION; LOCALIZATION LENGTH; MEAN FREE PATH; NONEQUILIBRIUM GREEN FUNCTION FORMALISMS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; QUANTUM TRANSPORT; ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS; TIGHT BINDING MODEL; TRANSPORT OF CARRIERS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; GRAPHENE; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 84856260973     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2011.2173690     Document Type: Article

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