Carbon Nanotube “T Junctions”: Nanoscale Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Contact Devices
- 1 December 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 79 (22) , 4453-4456
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.79.4453
Abstract
Stable “T junctions” of single-walled carbon nanotubes forming one of the smallest prototypes of microscopic metal-semiconductor-metal contacts are proposed. The structures have been found to be local minima of the total energy on relaxation with a generalized tight-binding molecular dynamics scheme. These quasi-2D junctions could be the building blocks of nanoscale tunnel junctions in a 2D network of nanoelectronic devices.Keywords
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