Ballistic transport in nanoscale self-switching devices

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 56, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 2206-2209

  Chen, Zi Min ^a   Zheng, Zhi Yuan ^a   Xu, Kun Yuan ^b   Wang, Gang ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ballistic transport; Monte Carlo simulation; nano device; self switching device

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959755756     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-011-4557-1     Document Type: Article

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