Joule heating induced negative differential resistance in freestanding metallic carbon nanotubes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Kuroda, Marcelo A ^a,b   Leburton, Jean Pierre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC BIAS; METALLIC CARBON NANOTUBES (M-CNT);

HEAT LOSSES; HEAT RESISTANCE; HEAT TREATMENT; NANOTUBES; SUBSTRATES; THERMAL EFFECTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 33748482647     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2345244     Document Type: Article

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