Theory of scattering-limited and ballistic mobility and saturation velocity in low-dimensional nanostructures

Current Nanoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 227-231

  Arora, Vijay K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b WILKES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1D; 2D; 3D; Ballistic transport; Low dimensional; Mobility; Nanostructures; Ohm's law; Saturation velocity; Scattering; Velocity field characteristics

Indexed keywords

1D; 2D; 3D; BALLISTIC TRANSPORT; LOW-DIMENSIONAL; MOBILITY; OHM'S LAW; SATURATION VELOCITY; VELOCITY-FIELD CHARACTERISTICS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BALLISTICS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY; SCATTERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VELOCITY;

CARRIER MOBILITY;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; MOTION; NANOCHIP; NANODEVICE; NANOSENSOR; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY; VELOCITY;

EID: 70350627408     PISSN: 15734137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157341309788185488     Document Type: Article

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