Electron transport in boron fullerenes

2008 8th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, IEEE-NANO

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 500-502

  He, Haiying ^a   Pandey, Ravindra ^a   Boustani, Ihsan ^b   Kama, Shashi P ^c  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSMISSIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORTS; ENHANCED TRANSMISSIONS; LANDAUER; QUANTUM TRANSPORTS;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

FULLERENES;

EID: 55349127418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NANO.2008.150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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