Giant low bias negative differential resistance induced by nitrogen doping in graphene nanoribbon

Chemical Physics Letters

Volumn 554, Issue , 2012, Pages 172-176

  Zhao, Peng ^a   Liu, De Sheng ^b,c   Li, Shu Juan ^a   Chen, Gang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JINAN   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JINING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED BIAS; BLOCH WAVE FUNCTIONS; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; GRAPHENE NANO-RIBBON; LOW BIAS; NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCES; NITROGEN-DOPING; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION FORMALISM; PEAK-TO-VALLEY RATIOS; SUBBANDS; SYMMETRY ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

NEGATIVE RESISTANCE;

EID: 84869094478     PISSN: 00092614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2012.10.045     Document Type: Article

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