• DocumentCode
    2257327
  • Title

    Modeling the effective mass and Y-junction rectifying current of carbon nanotubes

  • Author

    Pennington, Gary ; Goldsman, Neil

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    310
  • Lastpage
    313
  • Abstract
    We present models for explaining the effective mass and electronic properties of heterojunctions formed by carbon nanotubes of different diameters. We predict the effective mass of a NT and the current of an array of Y-junction NTs based solely on the tube diameters. By investigating the effective mass of small diameter tubes, we find that in addition to the distinction based on chirality of semiconducting NTs, there are two fundamentally different tube types
  • Keywords
    carbon nanotubes; effective mass; rectification; C; Y-junction rectifying current; carbon nanotubes; effective mass; tube diameters; Carbon nanotubes; Educational institutions; Effective mass; Electrons; Heterojunctions; Integral equations; Nanoelectronics; Orbital calculations; Semiconductivity; Wrapping;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, 2001 International
  • Conference_Location
    Washington, DC
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7432-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISDRS.2001.984502
  • Filename
    984502