Electrical conductance in a typical linear and cyclic quantum wire

International Journal of Nanotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 10-11, 2009, Pages 1050-1061

  Mardaani, Mohammad ^a,b   Shokri, Ali A ^c  

^a SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

^c PAYAME NOOR UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Coherence transport; Cyclic molecular; Electrical conductance; Green's function; Quantum wire

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; GREEN'S FUNCTION; NANOWIRES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES;

BALLISTIC REGIME; COHERENCE TRANSPORTS; CYCLIC MOLECULAR; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTANCE; QUASI-ONE DIMENSIONAL; SEMI-INFINITE LEADS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIGHT-BINDING APPROACHES;

WIRE;

EID: 68649125306     PISSN: 14757435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijnt.2009.027567     Document Type: Article

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