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Chapter 1  List of Abbreviations


AGNR Armchair graphene nanoribbon
AGNRBNArmchair graphene nanoribbon in boron nitride
BNSL Boron-nitride-passivated armchair graphene nanoribbons superlattice
CNT Carbon nanotube
cw continuous-wave
DFT Density functional theory
DOS Density of states
GGA Generalised gradient approximation
GNR Graphene nanoribbon
FIR Far-infrared
HSL Hydrogen-passivated armchair graphene nanoribbons superlattice
ISB Intersubband
JDOS Joint density of states
LDA Local density approximation
LDOS Local density of states
LER Line-edge-roughness
MC Monte Carlo
MIR Mid-Infrared
NEGF Non-equilibrium Green’s function
QCD Qantum cascade detector
QCL Qantum cascade laser
QW Qantum well
3QW Three-well
RNGH Risken-Nummedal-Graham-Haken
SA Saturable absorber
SIESTA Spanish initiative for electronic simulations with thousands of atoms
SL Superlattice
TB Tight-binding
THz Terahertz
ZGNR Zigzag graphene nanoribbon


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