Amorphous molecular junctions produced by ion irradiation on carbon nanotubes

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 324, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 321-325

  Wang, Zhenxia ^a   Yu, Liping ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Ding, Yinfeng ^a   Li, Yulan ^a   Han, Jiaguang ^a   Zhu, Zhiyuan ^a   Xu, Hongjie ^a   He, Guowei ^b   Chen, Yi ^b   Hu, Gang ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

61.46.+w; 61.80.Jh; 73.61.Wp; 81.07.De; Amorphous nanowire junction; Carbon nanotube; Ion irradiation

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRON IRRADIATION; ION BEAMS; ION BOMBARDMENT; IONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTUBES; NANOWIRES; RADIATION; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); WELDING;

61.80.JH; 73.61.WP; 81.07.DE; AMORPHOUS NANOWIRES; ION BEAM IRRADIATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS COMPUTATIONS; MOLECULAR JUNCTION; NANOWIRE JUNCTIONS;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; IONIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION; WELDING;

EID: 11144354480     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2004.02.001     Document Type: Article

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