Computational study of carbon-based electronics

Journal of Computational Electronics

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 427-440

  Pourfath, Mahdi ^a   Kosina, Hans ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONICS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Electron phonon interaction; Electron photon; Field effect transistors; Graphene nanoribbons; Interaction; Non equilibrium Green's function; Photo detector; Quantum transport; Technology computer aided design

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANORIBBONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTODETECTORS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

ELECTRON-PHOTON; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; INTERACTION; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION; QUANTUM TRANSPORT; TECHNOLOGY COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84896968176     PISSN: 15698025     EISSN: 15728137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10825-009-0285-z     Document Type: Article

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