Electronic transport through ordered and disordered graphene grain boundaries

Carbon

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 101-110

  Vancsó, Péter ^a,d   Márk, Géza I ^a,d   Lambin, Philippe ^b   Mayer, Alexandre ^b   Kim, Yong Sung ^c,d   Hwang, Chanyong ^c,d   Biró, László P ^a,d  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNICAL PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^c Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

^d Korean Hungarian Joint Laboratory for Nanosciences   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISORDERED GRAPHENE; ELECTRON-HOLE ASYMMETRY; ELECTRONIC LOCALIZED STATE; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; ELECTRONIC WAVE PACKETS; METALLIC NANOWIRES; MISORIENTATION ANGLE; TIGHT BINDING METHODS;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GRAIN BOUNDARIES;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84883600221     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2013.07.041     Document Type: Article

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