Size dependence of thermal properties of armchair carbon nanotubes: A first-principles study

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Kahaly, Mousumi Upadhyay ^a   Waghmare, Umesh V ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; SPECIFIC HEAT; THERMAL EXPANSION;

QUASIHARMONIC APPROXIMATION (QHA); VIBRATIONAL MODES;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 34547182853     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2753095     Document Type: Article

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