Electronic transport through bent carbon nanotubes: Nanoelectromechanical sensors and switches

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 20, 2003, Pages

  Farajian, Amir A ^a   Yakobson, Boris I ^b   Mizuseki, Hiroshi ^a   Kawazoe, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; DEFORMITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; MEASUREMENT; MECHANICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TUBE;

EID: 0038163639     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.205423     Document Type: Article

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