• 文献标题:   Suppression of localized transmission peaks and deviation from Matthiessen's rule in disordered armchair graphene nano-ribbons due to acoustic phonons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   AKHOONDALI H, GOHARRIZI AY, SHARIFI MJ
  • 作者关键词:   graphene nanoribbon, acoustic phonon, disorder, localized state, matthiessen s rule
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICA ELOWDIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS NANOSTRUCTURES
  • ISSN:   1386-9477 EI 1873-1759
  • 通讯作者地址:   Shahid Beheshti Univ
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.physe.2015.06.033
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

The electronic properties of armchair edge graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs) in the presence of disorders such as edge roughness, and vacancy are studied based on the non equilibrium Green's function formalism. Elastic electron-phonon scattering is also included in our study. AGNRs with disorder exhibit localized transmission peaks in the transport band gap. These localized peaks contribute to unwanted electron transport and conductivity of AGNRs. Results of our numerical simulations show that these states are extremely unstable and sensitive to lattice vibrations and are suppressed by acoustic phonons at room temperature. It was also found that the resistivity of AGNRs due to acoustic phonons and disorders, especially in the case of off states, deviates from the values predicted using Matthiessen's rule where the effect of each scattering mechanism is considered separately. According to the results, deviation from Matthiessen's rule become more severe with the increase in the strength of disorder and AGNR length. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.