Quantum conductance of silicon-doped carbon wire nanojunctions

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Szczȩśniak, Dominik ^a,b   Khater, Antoine ^a   Ba̧k, Zygmunt ^b   Szczȩśniak, Radoslaw ^c   Abou Ghantous, Michel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

^b JAN DLUGOSZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c CZESTOCHOWA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT QATAR   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Electronic transport; Finite difference methods; Nanoelectronics; Quantum wires

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NANOELECTRONICS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; SILICON CARBIDE; WIRE;

ATOMIC CONFIGURATION; ELECTRONIC BAND STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR NANOJUNCTIONS; PERIODIC CONFIGURATION; TIGHT BINDING METHODS;

CARBON;

EID: 84870993738     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-616     Document Type: Article

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