Electronic transport of recrystallized freestanding graphene nanoribbons

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 3510-3520

  Qi, Zhengqing John ^a   Daniels, Colin ^b   Hong, Sung Ju ^a,c   Park, Yung Woo ^c   Meunier, Vincent ^b   Drndic, Marija ^a   Johnson, A T Charlie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

accelerated annealing simulation; graphene nanoribbons; in situ transmission electron microscopy; nanosculpting; reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; DEFECTS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GRAPHENE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN SITU PROCESSING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); REPAIR; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANNEALING SIMULATIONS; GRAPHENE NANORIBBON (GNR); GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; IN-SITU TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; NANOELECTRONIC COMPONENTS; NANOSCULPTING; RECRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

NANORIBBONS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHITE;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GRAPHITE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOTUBES, CARBON;

EID: 84928944773     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn507452g     Document Type: Article

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