A first principles scanning tunneling potentiometry study of an opaque graphene grain boundary in the ballistic transport regime

Nanotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 41, 2014, Pages

  Bevan, Kirk H ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAPHENE; POTENTIOMETERS (ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS); QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BALLISTIC TRANSPORTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS; FIRST PRINCIPLES; HIGH RESOLUTION; NANOSCALE DEFECTS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREENS FUNCTIONS; QUANTUM TRANSPORT;

BALLISTICS;

EID: 84907459212     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/25/41/415701     Document Type: Article

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