• 文献标题:   Conductance quantization in strongly disordered graphene ribbons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   IHNATSENKA S, KIRCZENOW G
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121
  • 通讯作者地址:   Simon Fraser Univ
  • 被引频次:   35
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.80.201407
  • 出版年:   2009

▎ 摘  要

We present numerical studies of conduction in graphene nanoribbons with different types of disorder. We find that even when defect scattering depresses the conductance to values two orders of magnitude lower than 2e(2)/h, equally spaced conductance plateaus occur at moderately low temperatures due to enhanced electron backscattering near subband edge energies if bulk vacancies are present in the ribbon. This work accounts quantitatively for the surprising conductance quantization observed by Lin et al. [Phys. Rev. B 78, 161409 (R) (2008)] in ribbons with such low conductances.