Are electrical switching and rectification inherent properties of carbon nanotube y junctions?

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 13, 2006, Pages

  Andriotis, Antonis N ^a   Menon, Madhu ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOTUBE PROPERTIES; SWITCHING PROPERTIES;

CATALYST ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 33749238507     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2354014     Document Type: Article

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22. Note, however, that in our predictions the pinched-off state is not always reached with the same abruptness for all types of Y junctions as seen in the experiment (Ref. 14).