• 文献标题:   A Numerical Study of Line-Edge Roughness Scattering in Graphene Nanoribbons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YAZDANPANAH A, POURFATH M, FATHIPOUR M, KOSINA H, SELBERHERR S
  • 作者关键词:   conductance, diffusive transport, effective band gap, graphene, localization, quantum transport
  • 出版物名称:   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES
  • ISSN:   0018-9383 EI 1557-9646
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Tehran
  • 被引频次:   44
  • DOI:   10.1109/TED.2011.2173690
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

The role of line-edge roughness scattering on the electronic properties of graphene nanoribbons is numerically investigated. The nonequilibrium Green function formalism, along with an atomistic tight-binding model, is employed. Our results indicate that, depending on the geometrical and roughness parameters, the transport of carriers can be in the diffusive or localization regime. We extract the mean free path and the localization length, which characterize the diffusive and localization regimes, respectively. In the diffusive regime, the conductance linearly decreases with length, whereas in the localization regime, it exponentially decreases with length. However, as the localization length depends on the carrier energy, an effective transport gap in this regime can be defined. This gap is evaluated as a function of the geometrical and roughness parameters, and its impact on the device performance is discussed.