Physics of carbon nanotube electronic devices

• M.P. Anantram and F.Leonard– Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research

Center– Nanoscale Science and Technology Department,

Sandia National Laboratories

Figure 2.4.2:Density of states per unit volume and energy for a 3-D semiconductor (blue curve), a 10 nm quantum well with infinite barriers (red curve) and a 10 nm by 10 nm quantum wire with infinite barriers (green curve). m*/m0 = 0.8. © B. Van Zeghbroeck, 2007

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Text, 1-D, Equation D.11

Text, 2-D, Equation D.16

Text, 3-D, Equation D.19