1997/12/01 by Madhu Menon, Deepak Srivastava · 2 citations
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Carbon Nanotubes in Composites #Graphene research and applications #Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
paper · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.79.4453
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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.