Ballistic transport and electrostatics in metallic carbon nanotubes

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 557-562

  Svizhenko, Alexei ^a   Anantram, M P ^a   Govindan, T R ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ballistic transport; Carbon nanotubes; Inter connects; Modeling; Nanowires

Indexed keywords

BALLISTIC TRANSPORT; INTER-CONNECTS; MODELING; NANOWIRES;

BALLISTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC WIRE; ELECTROSTATICS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 26644447629     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2005.851409     Document Type: Article

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