Formation pathways for single-wall carbon nanotube multiterminal junctions
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چکیده
Using tight-binding as well as classical molecular dynamics we simulate the formation of single-wall carbon nanotube T-, Yand X-junctions via the fusing of two nanotubes. We propose energetically efficient pathways for this process in which all atoms maintain their sp2 arrangements throughout. Recent experimental advances have greatly increased the plausibility of synthesizing multiterminal junctions as proposed in the simulations. We further report I–V characteristics of one of the junctions thus formed. New Journal of Physics 5 (2003) 119.1–119.12 PII: S1367-2630(03)65055-X 1367-2630/03/000119+12$30.00 c © IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
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