Influence of edge defects, vacancies, and potential fluctuations on transport properties of extremely scaled graphene nanoribbons

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3231-3238

  Poljak, Mirko ^a,b   Song, Emil B ^a   Wang, Minsheng ^a   Suligoj, Tomislav ^b   Wang, Kang L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Edge defects; graphene nanoribbons (GNRs); nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) simulation; potential fluctuations; transport gap; vacancies

Indexed keywords

DEFECT DENSITY; DEFECTS; GRAPHENE; NANOSTRUCTURES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; VACANCIES;

EDGE DEFECTS; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION; POTENTIAL FLUCTUATIONS; TRANSPORT GAP;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 84870292326     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2012.2217969     Document Type: Article

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