Numerical analysis of nanotube-based NEMS devices - Part I: Electrostatic charge distribution on multiwalled nanotubes

Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 721-725

  Ke, Changhong ^a   Espinosa, Horacio D ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDRICAL NANOTUBE; NANO-ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (NEMS); NANOWIRE;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; QUANTUM THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 24744439748     PISSN: 00218936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1985434     Document Type: Article

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