A computational study on the electronic transport properties of ultranarrow disordered zigzag graphene nanoribbons

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-29

  Djavid, Nima ^a   Khaliji, Kaveh ^a   Tabatabaei, Seyed Mohammad ^a   Pourfath, Mahdi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Line edge roughness (LER); mean field Hubbard model; nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism; single atom vacancy; substrate charged impurities; zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs)

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HUBBARD MODEL; NANORIBBONS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VACANCIES;

CHARGED IMPURITY; LINE EDGE ROUGHNESS; MEAN-FIELD; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION; SINGLE ATOMS; ZIGZAG GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84891506631     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2013.2290773     Document Type: Article

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