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Using the tight-binding model and Green’s function method, we studied the electronic transport of four kinds of nanotube-graphene junctions. The results show the transport properties depend on both types of the carbon nanotube and graphene nanoribbon, metal or semiconducting. Moreover, the defect at the nanotube-graphene interface did not affect the conductance of the whole system at the Fermi level. In the double junction of nanotube/nanoribbon/nanotube, quasibound states are found, which cause antiresonance and result in conductance dips.
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Ma, K.L., Yan, X.H., Guo, Y.D. et al. Electronic transport properties of junctions between carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons. Eur. Phys. J. B 83, 487–492 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2011-20313-9
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