Ballistic Transport in Graphene Nanostrips in the Presence of Disorder: Importance of Edge Effects
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- 9 December 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Nano Letters
- Vol. 7 (1) , 204-210
- https://doi.org/10.1021/nl062132h
Abstract
Stimulated by recent advances in isolating graphene and similarities to single-wall carbon nanotubes, simulations were performed to assess the effects of static disorder on the conductance of metallic armchair- and zigzag-edge graphene nanostrips. Both strip types were found to have outstanding ballistic transport properties in the presence of a substrate-induced disorder. However, only the zigzag-edge strips retain these properties in the presence of irregular edges, making them better initial synthetic targets for ballistic device applications.Keywords
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