Electromechanical properties of small transition-metal dichalcogenide nanotubes

Inorganics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 155-167

  Zibouche, Nourdine ^a   Ghorbani Asl, Mahdi ^a   Heine, Thomas ^a   Kuc, Agnieszka ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Density functional based methods; Electromechanical properties; Quantum conductance; Transition metal dichalcogenide nanotubes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84915753746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23046740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/inorganics2020155     Document Type: Article

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