Single-conductor transmission-line model of multiwall carbon nanotubes

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 82-92

  Sarto, Maria Sabrina ^a   Tamburrano, Alessio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Equivalent single conductor circuit; Multiwall carbon nanotube; Nanointerconnect; Transmission line

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ERRORS; CLOSED FORM; FREQUENCY AND TIME DOMAINS; KINETIC INDUCTANCES; MEASURED DATA; MULTI-CONDUCTOR; MULTI-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PROPAGATION EQUATIONS; PULSE SIGNAL; QUANTUM CAPACITANCE; SIMPLIFIED FORMULA; SIMULATION RESULT; TRANSMISSION LINE; TRANSMISSION LINE MODELS; TUBE LENGTH;

CAPACITANCE; CARBON NANOTUBES; DELAY CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC LINES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 75449100521     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2009.2023516     Document Type: Article

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