The drift response to a high-electric-field in carbon nanotubes

Current Nanoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 492-495

  Vidhi, Rachana ^a   Tan, Michael L P ^b,c   Saxena, Tanuj ^d   Hashim, Abdul Manaf ^c   Arora, Vijay K ^c,e  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^e WILKES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Carrier concentration; Cnt; High electric field transport; Intrinsic velocity; Saturation velocity

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; NANOTUBES; VELOCITY; YARN;

CARRIER STATISTICS; DRIFT RESPONSE; DRIFT VELOCITIES; ENERGY SPECTRA; HIGH ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTRINSIC VELOCITY; MEAN FREE PATH; SATURATION VELOCITY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; LIGHT SCATTERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY;

EID: 77958455451     PISSN: 15734137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157341310797575050     Document Type: Article

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