Effect of Edge Disorder on the Electron and Phonon Transport through Graphene Nanoribbons


Thermoelectric Transport: Progress in First Principles and Other Approaches, and the Interplay with Experiment | event contribution
July 22, 2009 - July 24, 2009 | Lausanne, Switzerland

We study electronic as well as phononic transmission through graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) including edge disorder. Electronic transport through GNRs with armchair edges are known to be very sensitive to edge disorder. On the contrary, zigzag GNRs have more robust electronic transport properties near the Fermi energy except that a transport gap opens. We analyze electronic and phononic transmission through ziagzag GNRs depending on the width and the length of the sample. The mean free paths are extracted and the possibility of thermoelectric applications are discussed.


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Effect of Edge Disorder on the Electron and Phonon Transport through Graphene Nanoribbons


Thermoelectric Transport: Progress in First Principles and Other Approaches, and the Interplay with Experiment | event contribution
July 22, 2009 - July 24, 2009 | Lausanne, Switzerland

We study electronic as well as phononic transmission through graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) including edge disorder. Electronic transport through GNRs with armchair edges are known to be very sensitive to edge disorder. On the contrary, zigzag GNRs have more robust electronic transport properties near the Fermi energy except that a transport gap opens. We analyze electronic and phononic transmission through ziagzag GNRs depending on the width and the length of the sample. The mean free paths are extracted and the possibility of thermoelectric applications are discussed.


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