Geometry dependent current-voltage characteristics of ZnO nanostructures: A combined nonequilibrium Green's function and density functional theory study

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 19, 2009, Pages

  Yang, Zhiwen ^a   Wen, Bin ^a   Melnik, Roderick ^b   Yao, Shan ^a   Li, Tingju ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED VOLTAGES; DENSITIES OF STATE; HEXAGONAL CROSS-SECTIONS; IV CHARACTERISTICS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION; PROBE-MODEL; SINGLE-WALLED; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS; TRIANGULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; WURTZITES; ZNO NANOSTRUCTURES; ZNO NANOTUBE; ZNO NANOWIRES;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC WIRE; GREEN'S FUNCTION; NANOWIRES; SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 70449717348     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3259657     Document Type: Article

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