Phonon limited transport in graphene nanoribbon field effect transistors using full three dimensional quantum mechanical simulation

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Akhavan, Nima Dehdashti ^a   Jolley, Gregory ^a   Umana Membreno, Gilberto A ^a   Antoszewski, Jarek ^a   Faraone, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PHONONS; ELECTRON PHONON SCATTERING; GRAPHENE NANO-RIBBON; LOW FIELD MOBILITY; NANORIBBONS; NEAREST NEIGHBOUR; NON EQUILIBRIUM; OPTICAL PHONONS; QUANTUM MECHANICAL SIMULATIONS; REAL-SPACE; TIGHT-BINDING APPROXIMATIONS; TRANSPORT PARAMETERS;

PHONONS; QUANTUM THEORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 84870882902     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4764318     Document Type: Article

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