First-principles study for transport properties of armchair carbon nanotubes with a double vacancy under strain

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 103, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Li, Zi ^a   Wang, Chong Yu ^a,b   Zhang, Xu ^a   Ke, San Huang ^c   Yang, Weitao ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MATERIALS PHYSICS   (China)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CUBIC BORON NITRIDE; DEFECT STRUCTURES; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; FULLERENES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPORES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; SOLID STATE PHYSICS; STRAIN; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VACANCIES;

(PL) PROPERTIES; AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (AIP); ARMCHAIR CARBON NANOTUBES; CARBON NANOTUBES (CNTS); FERMI ENERGY; FIRST PRINCIPLES STUDIES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; GREEN FUNCTION METHOD (GFM); LOCAL STRUCTURES; PLANE WAVES; SINGLE PARTICLES; SINGLE-WALLED; TRANSMISSION FUNCTIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 45149095100     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2939279     Document Type: Article

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