Defective transport properties of three-terminal carbon nanotube junctions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2005, Pages

  Del Valle, Miriam ^a,b   Tejedor, Carlos ^a   Cuniberti, Gianaurelio ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CARBON DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; PHASE TRANSITION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SCALE UP;

EID: 20144373653     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.125306     Document Type: Article

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