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An intuitive approach to some electronic properties of graphene and graphene nanoribbons is derived, by means of a Tight Binding description. Within the same model, key concepts of coherent electronic transport are reviewed. This chapter, in combination with Appendix A, build the framework with which the electronic properties of graphene nanostructures can be modelled and analyzed.
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Munárriz Arrieta, J. (2014). Tight-Binding Description of Graphene Nanostructures. In: Modelling of Plasmonic and Graphene Nanodevices. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07088-9_2
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