Ab initio transport properties of nanostructures from maximally localized Wannier functions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Calzolari, Arrigo ^a   Marzari, Nicola ^b   Souza, Ivo ^c   Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CARBON;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; NANOPARTICLE; NANOSTRUCTURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBE;

EID: 1442263798     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.69.035108     Document Type: Article

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