Phonon excitation and instabilities in biased graphene nanoconstrictions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 16, 2013, Pages

  Gunst, Tue ^a   Lü, Jing Tao ^a,b   Hedegård, Per ^b   Brandbyge, Mads ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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EID: 84885757799     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.161401     Document Type: Article

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