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Carbon Nanotube Based Molecular Electronic Devices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Madhu Menon
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506–0055
Deepak Srivastava
Affiliation:
IT Modeling and Simulations Group at NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, MRJ, Mail Stop T27–A1, Moffett Field, California 94035–1000
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Abstract

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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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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