Carbon nanotube based molecular electronic devices

被引:56
作者
Menon, M [1 ]
Srivastava, D
机构
[1] Univ Kentucky, Dept Phys & Astron, Lexington, KY 40506 USA
[2] NASA, Ames Res Ctr, IT Modeling & Simulat Grp, MRJ, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1557/JMR.1998.0328
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Complex three-point junctions of single-walled carbon nanotubes are proposed as building blocks of nanoscale electronic devices. Both T- and Y-junctions, made up of tubes with differing diameters and chiralities, are studied as prototypes. All the proposed complex junctions have been found to be local minima of the total energy on relaxation with a generalized tight-binding molecular dynamics scheme.
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