• 文献标题:   Direct Simulation of Charge Transport in Graphene Nanoribbons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   NASTASI G, CAMIOLA VD, ROMANO V
  • 作者关键词:   graphene nanoribbon, bipolar charge transport, discontinuous galerkin method
  • 出版物名称:   COMMUNICATIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1815-2406 EI 1991-7120
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  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.4208/cicp.OA-2021-0032 EA OCT 2021
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

Graphene nanoribbons are considered as one of the most promising ways to design electron devices where the active area is made of graphene. In fact, graphene nanoribbons present a gap between the valence and the conduction bands as in standard semiconductors such as Si or GaAs, at variance with large area graphene which is gapless, a feature that hampers a good performance of graphene field effect transistors. To use graphene nanoribbons as a semiconductor, an accurate analysis of their electron properties is needed. Here, electron transport in graphene nanoribbons is investigated by solving the semiclassical Boltzmann equation with a discontinuous Galerkin method. All the electron-phonon scattering mechanisms are included. The adopted energy band structure is that devised in [1] while according to [2] the edge effects are described as an additional scattering stemming from the Berry-Mondragon model which is valid in presence of edge disorder. With this approach a spacial 1D transport problem has been solved, even if it remains two dimensional in the wave vector space. A degradation of charge velocities, and consequently of the mobilities, is found by reducing the nanoribbon width due mainly to the edge scattering.