Electronic and field emission properties of boron nitride/carbon nanotube superlattices

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 46-48

  Meunier, Vincent ^a   Roland, Christopher ^a   Bernholc, J ^a   Nardelli, Marco Buongiorno ^a,b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; BAND-OFFSET; FIELD EMISSION PROPERTY; FIELD EMITTER; NANO DEVICE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL;

BORON; CALCULATIONS; CARBON NANOTUBES;

SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 79955982800     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1491013     Document Type: Article

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