The role of electrical and thermal contact resistance for Joule breakdown of single-wall carbon nanotubes

Nanotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 29, 2008, Pages

  Pop, Eric ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYSIS; HEALTH; INSULATION; METALLIZING; MODELS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPORES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SUBSTRATES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

ANALYTICAL MODELLING; BREAKDOWN (BD); BREAKDOWN BEHAVIOR; DATA SETS; ELECTRICAL BREAKDOWN; ELECTRODE CONTACTS; ELECTRODE INTERFACES; HEAT SINKING; INSULATING SUBSTRATES; NANO TUBE; NANOTUBE LENGTHS; POWER SCALING; SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCNTS); SUB MICRONS; UNIVERSAL SCALING;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRODE; HEAT; HEAT TOLERANCE; INSULATOR ELEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 47249117849     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/19/29/295202     Document Type: Article

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