Edge-disorder-induced Anderson localization and conduction gap in graphene nanoribbons
By M. Evaldsson, I. Zozoulenko, Hengyi Xu, T. Heinzel. 2008
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We study the effect of the edge disorder on the conductance of the graphene nanoribbons (GNRs).We find that only very modest edge disorder is sufficient to induce the conduction energy gap inthe ot ...
Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry
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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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Citations in the corpus
- Charge transport in disordered graphene-based low dimensional materials (2008, result): “... on the two most external rows, the system can be envisioned as a sequence of metallic and semiconducting fragments and the localization length decreases considerably within the energy range that corresponds to the semiconductor gap, see Fig. 16. Even outside this region, the conduction ability i”
- Graphene synthesis, characterization and its applications in nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, and nanosensing (2015, background): “As astonishing the properties of semiconducting GNRs sound, the bitter truth about them is that the mobility is drastically reduced.”
- Graphene based materials: Past, present and future (2011, background): “Bandgap opening in both zigzag and armchair nanoribbons was observed and proven experimentally and theoretically which vary with the width of the ribbons and disorderness in the edges [172].”
- Electronic properties of mesoscopic graphene structures: Charge confinement and control of spin and charge transport (2011, background): “[108] reported that when edge disorder is present, the difference between transport properties of the armchair and zigzag nanoribbons disappears.”
- Graphene and derivatives – Synthesis techniques, properties and their energy applications (2017, unknown): “Evaldsson et al. [108] have reported the variation of the width of ribbons and disorders in the edges of both zigzag and armchair nanoribbons, this observation was supported by both experimental results and theoretical explanation.”