Metal-to-semiconductor transition in squashed armchair carbon nanotubes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 15, 2003, Pages

  Lu, Jun Qiang ^a   Wu, Jian ^a   Duan, Wenhui ^a   Liu, Feng ^b   Zhu, Bang Fen ^a   Gu, Bing Lin ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ENERGY GAP; FERMI LEVEL; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

METAL TO SEMICONDUCTOR TRANSITION; SQUASHED NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0038201865     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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