Designing nanogadgets by interconnecting carbon nanotubes with zinc layers

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 939-943

  Khazaei, Mohammad ^a   Lee, Sang Uck ^a   Pichierri, Fabio ^b   Kawazoe, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Electron transport; Negative differential resistance; Rectifying diode; Varistor; Wire

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; CARBON; CUBIC BORON NITRIDE; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONS; FULLERENES; HEALTH; METALLIZING; MICROFLUIDICS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPORES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VARISTORS; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

(PL) PROPERTIES; AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); BLOCH STATES; CARBON NANOTUBES (CNTS); CONDUCTING CHANNELS; CURRENT VOLTAGE (I V) CHARACTERISTICS; DIODE PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT (ET); FERMI ENERGY; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS; FUNCTIONAL UNITS (FU); MOLECULAR STATES; NANO-SCALE DEVICES; NEGATIVE-DIFFERENTIAL-RESISTANCE (NDR); NEW APPROACHES; ORBITAL CHARACTERS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MACROMOLECULE; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTORS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; ZINC;

EID: 45749118764     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn7004377     Document Type: Article

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