• 文献标题:   Numerical simulation of electronic transport in zigzag-edged graphene nano-ribbon devices
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SOUMA S, OGAWA M, YAMAMOTO T, WATANABE K
  • 作者关键词:   quantum transport, nonequilibrium green s function, graphene
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL ELECTRONICS
  • ISSN:   1569-8025
  • 通讯作者地址:   Kobe Univ
  • 被引频次:   13
  • DOI:   10.1007/s10825-008-0237-z
  • 出版年:   2008

▎ 摘  要

We present a numerical study of the current-voltage characteristics in zigzag-edged graphene nano-ribbon (Z-GNR) devices. Our calculations employing the non-equilibrium Green's function method and the density-functional tight-binding method show that the Z-GNR with transverse symmetry can exhibit remarkable current saturation behavior in spite of the absence of the bandgap. We further demonstrate that the saturation current can be controlled by the additional doping in the channel region. The mechanism of such current saturation can be explained in terms of the symmetry of the wavefunctions corresponding to the conduction and the valence bands in Z-GNR.