Optimal thickness for charge transfer in multilayer graphene electrodes

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kuroda, Marcelo A ^a,b   Tersoff, J ^a   Nistor, Razvan A ^a   Martyna, Glenn J ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES;

ANALYTIC MODELING; DENSITY OF STATE; DOPING DISTRIBUTION; FIRST PRINCIPLES; GRAPHENE LAYERS; MULTILAYER GRAPHENE; OPTIMAL THICKNESS; SYSTEM SPECIFIC;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 84921261529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.1.014005     Document Type: Article

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