Different views on the electronic structure of nanoscale graphene: Aromatic molecule versus quantum dot

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wiessner M ^a,b   Rodriguez Lastra N S ^a,b   Ziroff, J ^a,b   Forster, F ^a,b   Puschnig, P ^c   Dossel L ^d   Mullen K ^d   Scholl A ^a,b   Reinert, F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; AROMATIC MOLECULES; BLOCH STATE; DISCRETE STATE; ELECTRONIC BAND STRUCTURE; LOCALIZED STATE; MODEL SYSTEM; NANO SCALE; NANOSCALED; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; QUANTIZATION EFFECTS; SPATIAL EXTENSION;

BAND STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84870430582     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/11/113008     Document Type: Article

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