Negative differential resistance in a carbon nanotube-based molecular junction

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 374, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1167-1171

  Zhao, P ^a   Wang, P J ^a   Zhang, Z ^a   Liu, D S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JINAN   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JINING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Electronic transport; Negative differential resistance; Non equilibrium Green's function

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CARBON NANOTUBE JUNCTIONS; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; MOLECULAR JUNCTION; NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCES; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION FORMALISM;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 74249084921     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2009.12.047     Document Type: Article

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