Effects of interface roughness on electronic transport properties of nanotube-molecule-nanotube junctions

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 114, Issue 28, 2010, Pages 12335-12340

  Li, Xiao Fei ^a,b   Chen, Ke Qiu ^a   Wang, Lingling ^a   Luo, Yi ^b,c  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED MOLECULES; CONTACT GEOMETRY; CONTACT STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; INTERFACE ROUGHNESS; MECHANICAL STRETCHING; METALLIC SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; MOLECULAR DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR JUNCTION; NANOTUBE JUNCTIONS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION; SINGLE CONJUGATED MOLECULES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHIRALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ENANTIOMERS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); STEREOCHEMISTRY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 77954710183     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp102945v     Document Type: Article

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