Simulation of the electron tunneling paths in networks of nano-particle films

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4488 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages 641-648

  Šuvakov, Milovan ^a   Tadić, Bosiljka ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Electron tunneling paths; Nano particles; Network

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; GRAPH THEORY; NANOPARTICLES; THIN FILMS;

NETWORK MODEL; TUNNELING CONDUCTION; TUNNELING DISTANCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PLANE;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

EID: 38049162393     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72586-2_93     Document Type: Conference Paper

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