Tunable transport gap in narrow bilayer graphene nanoribbons

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Yu, Woo Jong ^a,b   Duan, Xiangfeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHITE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE;

GRAPHITE; NANOTUBES, CARBON; TEMPERATURE; TRANSISTORS, ELECTRONIC;

EID: 84874298562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01248     Document Type: Article

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