Structural deformation and intertube conductance of crossed carbon nanotube junctions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 688-691

  Yoon, Young Gui ^a,b   Mazzoni, Mario S C ^a,b   Choi, Hyoung Joon ^a,b   Ihm, Jisoon ^c   Louie, Steven G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; HAMILTONIANS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NANOTUBES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SUBSTRATES;

CROSSED CARBON NANOTUBE JUNCTION; INTERTUBE CONDUCTANCE; STRUCTURAL DEFORMATION; SUBSTRATE TUBE ATTRACTION;

SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

EID: 0035131232     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.688     Document Type: Article

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