Carbon nanocone: A promising thermal rectifier

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 24, 2008, Pages

  Yang, Nuo ^a   Zhang, Gang ^b   Li, Baowen ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; TEMPERATURE RANGES;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 57849132235     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3049603     Document Type: Article

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