First-principles investigation of armchair boron nitride nanoribbons for sensing PH3 gas molecules

Superlattices and Microstructures

Volumn 73, Issue , 2014, Pages 350-358

  Srivastava, Pankaj ^a   Jaiswal, Neeraj K ^b   Sharma, Varun ^a  

^a ABV INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT   (India)

^b PDPM INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Band structures; Density of states; I V characteristics; Nanoribbons; Sensors

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; BORON NITRIDE; CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; MOLECULES; NANORIBBONS; SENSORS;

BORON NITRIDE NANORIBBONS; DENSITY OF STATE; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; FIRST-PRINCIPLES INVESTIGATIONS; GAS MOLECULES; IV CHARACTERISTICS; SENSING APPLICATIONS; SENSING PROPERTY;

ADSORPTION;

EID: 84904204194     PISSN: 07496036     EISSN: 10963677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spmi.2014.05.036     Document Type: Article

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