Carbon Nanotube “T Junctions”: Nanoscale Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Contact Devices
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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. [S0031-9007(97)04723-6]
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