Negative differential resistance in parallel single-walled carbon nanotube contacts

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Liu, Qihang ^a   Luo, Guangfu ^a   Qin, Rui ^a   Li, Hong ^a   Yan, Xin ^a   Xu, Chengyong ^a   Lai, Lin ^a   Zhou, Jing ^a   Hou, Shimin ^a   Wang, Enge ^a   Gao, Zhengxiang ^a   Lu, Jing ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 79961056816     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.155442     Document Type: Article

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