The impact of edges and dopants on the work function of graphene nanostructures: The way to high electronic emission from pure carbon medium

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 18, 2013, Pages

  Kvashnin, D G ^a   Sorokin, P B ^a,b   Bruning J W ^c   Chernozatonskii, L A ^a  

^a EMANUEL INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE FOR SUPERHARD AND NOVEL CARBON MATERIALS   (Russian Federation)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO APPROACH; ELECTRONIC EMISSION; EMISSION PROPERTIES; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS (GNR); SIZE AND SHAPE; STRONG DEPENDENCES; UNIFORM EMISSION; WEAK DEPENDENCES;

GRAPHENE; NANOSTRUCTURES; WORK FUNCTION;

NANORIBBONS;

EID: 84877766411     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4804375     Document Type: Article

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