Quantum-Mechanical Investigation of Field-Emission Mechanism of a Micrometer-Long Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Zheng, Xiao ^a   Chen, GuanHua ^a,b   Li, Zhibing ^b   Deng, Shaozhi ^b   Xu, Ningsheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FERMI LEVEL; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POISSON EQUATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUANTUM THEORY; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

CHARGE DISTRIBUTION; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL; FIELD-EMISSION MECHANISMS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 2142702906     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.106803     Document Type: Article

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