Atomistic modeling of metal-nanotube contacts

Journal of Computational Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 97-100

  Kienle, Diego ^a   Ghosh, Avik W ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Contacts; Molecular electronics; NEGF; Quantum transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 25144434349     PISSN: 15698025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10825-005-7116-7     Document Type: Article

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