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Electronic Properties of Graphene Nanoribbons

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Graphene is a one atomic thickness carbon sheet, where the low-energy electronic states of graphene are described by the massless Dirac Fermions. The orientation of edge in graphene determines energy spectrum of the π-electrons. Zigzag edges possess edge localized states with energies close to the Fermi level. However, armchair edges do not have such localized states. In this chapter, we shall introduce the nanoscale and edge shape effect on electronic properties of graphene. Starting from the basic description of electronic states of graphene nanoribbons on the basis of tight-binding model and massless Dirac equation, we briefly introduce the transport properties of disordered graphene nanoribbons and nanojunctions.

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Wakabayashi, K. (2011). Electronic Properties of Graphene Nanoribbons. In: Raza, H. (eds) Graphene Nanoelectronics. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22984-8_9

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