Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 79, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.075407
Keywords
Anderson model; ballistic transport; electric admittance; graphene; nanostructured materials; quantum interference phenomena
Funding
- FAPERJ and CNPq (Brazil)
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-08ER46512]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-08ER46512] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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We study numerically the effects of edge and bulk disorder on the conductance of graphene nanoribbons. We compute the conductance suppression due to Anderson localization induced by edge scattering and find that even for weak edge roughness, conductance steps are suppressed and transport gaps are induced. These gaps are approximately inversely proportional to the nanoribbon width. On/off conductance ratios grow exponentially with the nanoribbon length. Our results impose severe limitations to the use of graphene in ballistic nanowires.
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