Correlating atomic structure and transport in suspended graphene nanoribbons

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4238-4244

  Qi, Zhengqing John ^a   Rodríguez Manzo, Julio A ^a   Botello Méndez, Andrés R ^b   Hong, Sung Ju ^a,c   Stach, Eric A ^d   Park, Yung Woo ^c   Charlier, Jean Christophe ^b   Drndić, Marija ^a   Johnson, A T Charlie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

electronic transport properties; Graphene; graphene nanoribbon; graphene point contact; nanofabrication; transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONOLAYERS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ABERRATION-CORRECTED; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; GRAPHENE NANO-RIBBON; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS (GNRS); INTEGRATED CIRCUIT COMPONENTS; SUSPENDED GRAPHENE;

NANORIBBONS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHITE;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRAPHITE; NANOTUBES, CARBON;

EID: 84906095437     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl501872x     Document Type: Article

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