ABSTRACT

Preface.......................................................................................................................................................................................... ix Editors ..........................................................................................................................................................................................xi Contributors ...............................................................................................................................................................................xiii

Chapter 1 Graphene and Graphene Nanoribbons: Properties, Synthesis, and Electronic Applications .................................. 3

Anupama B. Kaul and Jeremy T. Robinson

Chapter 2 Interface between Graphene and High-κ Dielectrics ............................................................................................ 15 Ming Yang, Yuan Ping Feng, and Shi Jie Wang

Chapter 3 Conventional and Laser Annealing to Improve Electrical and Thermal Contacts between Few-Layer or Multilayer Graphene and Metals ...................................................................................................................... 25

Alfredo Rodrigues Vaz, Andrei Alaferdov, Victor Ermakov, and Stanislav Moshkalev

Chapter 4 Strain Effect on the Electronic Spectrum of Graphene: Beyond Two Dimensionality ......................................... 41

F. M. D. Pellegrino, G. G. N. Angilella, and R. Pucci

Chapter 5 Bondonic Electronic Properties of 2D Graphenic Lattices with Structural Defects ............................................ 55

Mihai V. Putz, Ottorino Ori, and Mircea V. Diudea

Chapter 6 Electric Lens in Graphene ..................................................................................................................................... 81

Weihua Mu

Chapter 7 Electronic Properties and Transport in Finite-Size Two-Dimensional Carbons .................................................. 91

J. C. Sancho-García and A. J. Pérez-Jiménez

Chapter 8 Electronic Properties of Graphene Nanoribbons with Transition Metal Impurities ........................................... 105

Neeraj K. Jaiswal and Pankaj Srivastava

Chapter 9 Electronic Structure and Transport in Graphene: QuasiRelativistic Dirac-Hartree-Fock Self-Consistent Field Approximation ............................................................................................................................................117