Metallic carbon nanotubes with metal contacts: Electronic structure and transport

Nanotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 42, 2014, Pages

  Zienert, A ^a   Schuster, J ^b   Gessner, T ^a,b  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR ELECTRONIC NANO SYSTEMS ENAS   (Germany)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube; contact; density functional theory; electronic transport; extended H ckel theory; Green's function

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BINDING ENERGY; CARBON NANOTUBES; CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GREEN'S FUNCTION; METALS; NANOTUBES; OHMIC CONTACTS; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; SILVER; YARN;

ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; EXTENDED H; LINEAR RESPONSE CURRENT; LOW-OHMIC CONTACT; METALLIC CARBON NANOTUBES; METALLIC ELECTRODES; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION FORMALISM; QUASI-BALLISTIC ELECTRON TRANSPORT;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84907703103     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/25/42/425203     Document Type: Article

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