Nonlinear charging and transport times in doped nanotubes junctions

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 515-518

  Esfarjani, Keivan ^a   Farajian, Amir A ^b   Kawazoe, Yoshiyuki ^b   Chui, Siu Tat ^c  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Device; Junction; Nanotube; Response time; Transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 24644496763     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.74.515     Document Type: Article

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