Engineering enhanced thermoelectric properties in zigzag graphene nanoribbons

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Karamitaheri, Hossein ^a,b   Neophytou, Neophytos ^a   Pourfath, Mahdi ^a,c   Faez, Rahim ^b   Kosina, Hans ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE ROUGHNESS; ENGINEERING DESIGN; FORCE CONSTANT MODELS; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; LINE DEFECTS; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANORIBBON STRUCTURES; NANORIBBONS; NEAREST-NEIGHBORS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION; QUANTUM MECHANICAL; THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES; THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE; THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES; TIGHT BINDING MODEL;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GRAPHENE; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84858990942     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3688034     Document Type: Article

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