Coherent Tunneling and Negative Differential Conductivity in a Graphene/ h -BN/Graphene Heterostructure

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Brey, Luis ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE; ELECTRON TUNNELING; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; MOMENTUM;

COHERENT TUNNELING; CRITICAL VOLTAGES; GRAPHENE ELECTRODES; GRAPHENE LAYERS; HOPPING AMPLITUDE; JOINT DENSITY OF STATE; NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL CONDUCTIVITIES; TUNNELING CURRENT;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84908045489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.2.014003     Document Type: Article

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