Electron transport and velocity oscillations in a carbon nanotube

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 469-473

  Akturk, Akin ^a,b   Pennington, Gary ^b   Goldsman, Neil ^b   Wickenden, Alma ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Electron transport; Monte Carlo methods; Terahertz oscillations

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON VELOCITIES; OPTICAL PHONON EMISSIONS; VELOCITY OSCILLATIONS;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PHONONS; VELOCITY CONTROL;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 34547270537     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2007.896968     Document Type: Article

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