Signal propagation in carbon nanotubes of arbitrary chirality

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 135-149

  Miano, Giovanni ^a   Forestiere, Carlo ^a   Maffucci, Antonio ^b   Maksimenko, Sergey A ^c   Slepyan, Gregory Ya ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR PROBLEMS   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Boltzmann transport equation; carbon nanotube (CNT); conducting channels; curvature effects; interband transitions; transmission lines

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; CONDUCTING CHANNELS; CURVATURE EFFECTS; INTER-BAND TRANSITION; TRANSMISSION LINES;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BOLTZMANN EQUATION; CHIRALITY; ELECTRIC LINES; ENANTIOMERS; INDUCTANCE; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 79551625870     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2009.2034262     Document Type: Article

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