Charge Transport through Graphene Junctions with Wetting Metal Leads
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- 作者：Salvador Barraza-Lopez ; Markus Kindermann ; M. Y. Chou
- 刊名：Nano Letters
- 出版年：2012
- 出版时间：July 11, 2012
- 年：2012
- 卷：12
- 期：7
- 页码：3424-3430
- 全文大小：474K
- 年卷期：v.12,no.7(July 11, 2012)
- ISSN：1530-6992
文摘
Graphene is believed to be an excellent candidate material for next-generation electronic devices. However, one needs to take into account the nontrivial effect of metal contacts in order to precisely control the charge injection and extraction processes. We have performed transport calculations for graphene junctions with wetting metal leads (metal leads that bind covalently to graphene) using nonequilibrium Green鈥檚 functions and density functional theory. Quantitative information is provided on the increased resistance with respect to ideal contacts and on the statistics of current fluctuations. We find that charge transport through the studied two-terminal graphene junction with Ti contacts is pseudo-diffusive up to surprisingly high energies.