Modeling of graphene nano-ribbon schottky diodes in the parabolic band structure limit

• Main Authors: Moghaddam, Narges Shayesteh, Ahmad, Mohammad Taghi, Webb, Jeffrey Frank, Rahmani, Meisam, Sadegi, H., Musavi, M., Ismail, Razali
• Format: Article
• Published: American Institute of Physics 2012
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/47231/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4768999
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

In this paper we investigate the band structure of graphene nano-ribbons and the current density. A square root approximation shows that the band energy is parabolic in the low energy limit. In this parabolic region charge transport is controlled by the saturation velocity.