Ballistic switching and rectification in single wall carbon nanotube Y junctions
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Transport properties of various semiconducting zig-zag carbon nanotube Y junctions are studied for the investigations of rectification and switching. Our results indicate that such junctions, when symmetric, can support both ballistic rectification and/or the ballistic switching operating modes. Although structural symmetry of the Y junction is found to be a necessary condition for rectification, it may not be sufficient in all cases. © 2001 American Institute of Physics. @DOI: 10.1063/1.1385194#
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