Electronic transport properties of assembled carbon nanoribbons

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 6483-6491

  Girão, Eduardo Costa ^a,b   Cruz Silva, Eduardo ^c,d   Meunier, Vincent ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

graphene nanowiggles; Green's function; quantum transport

Indexed keywords

1D SYSTEMS; CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES; ELECTRONIC ENERGIES; ELECTRONIC PROCESS; ELECTRONIC QUANTUM; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELEMENTARY RULES; GRAPHITIC NANORIBBON; NANO-DEVICES; NANORIBBONS; QUANTUM TRANSPORT; SPIN DISTRIBUTION; SPIN-STATE; SYSTEM GEOMETRY; ZIGZAG EDGES;

GEOMETRY; GRAPHENE; GREEN'S FUNCTION; NANOSTRUCTURES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 84864239562     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn302259f     Document Type: Article

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