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Electron Transport in Graphene Nanoribbons

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From Kinetic Theory to Turbulence Modeling (INdAM 2021)

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Lately, graphene has attracted the attention of several scientists because of its interesting properties. In particular, charge transport in graphene nanoribbons has peculiar effects which reveal very challenging, especially for future generations of electron devices. The possibility to replace traditional semiconductor materials with graphene in the active area of electron devices constitutes the ultimate miniaturization since graphene has the width of a single atom. Here we present an analysis of charge transport in graphene nanoribbons in the framework of semiclassical transport.

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    The spin degeneracy is not included; otherwise an additional factor 2 must be added which is irrelevant to compare the mobilities.

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge the support from INdAM (GNFM) and from Università degli Studi di Catania, Piano della Ricerca 2020/2022 Linea di intervento 2 “QICT.” G. Nastasi acknowledges the financial support from Progetto Giovani GNFM 2020 “Trasporto di cariche e fononi in strutture a bassa dimensione.”

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    Giovanni Nastasi & Vittorio Romano

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    Silvia Lorenzani

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Nastasi, G., Romano, V. (2023). Electron Transport in Graphene Nanoribbons. In: Barbante, P., Belgiorno, F.D., Lorenzani, S., Valdettaro, L. (eds) From Kinetic Theory to Turbulence Modeling. INdAM 2021. Springer INdAM Series, vol 51. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6462-6_16

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