Electromechanical switching in graphene nanoribbons

Carbon

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 102-109

  Al Aqtash, Nabil ^a   Li, Hong ^a,b   Wang, Lu ^a   Mei, Wai Ning ^a,c   Sabirianov, R F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETICS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; ELECTROMECHANICAL SWITCHING; ELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; FERROMAGNETIC STATE; GRAPHENE NANO-RIBBON; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; LOCAL MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC AND TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; NON EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION METHOD; OPPOSITE MAGNETIZATION; QUANTUM CONDUCTANCE; SPIN VALVE;

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; GRAPHENE; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; QUANTUM THEORY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

FERROMAGNETISM;

EID: 84868094814     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2012.08.018     Document Type: Article

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