Negative differential resistance in single-walled SiC nanotubes

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 53, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 3770-3772

  Yang, Yintang ^a   Song, Jiuxu ^a   Liu, Hongxia ^a   Chai, Changchun ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Negative differential resistance; Non equilibrium Green function; Silicon carbide nanotube; Transport properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349155033     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-008-0529-5     Document Type: Article

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