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References:

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o        M. Meyyappan and D. Srivastava, Carbon Nanotube -A big Revolution in a Technology that Thinks Very, Very, Very Small, IEEE Potentials, Augaust/September 2000, 16-18.

o        Noggle, Physical Chemistry, Harper-Collins 1996.

o        Takeshi Kawano, Dane Christensen, Supin Chen, Chung Yeung Cho, and Liwei Lin, Formation and characterization of silicon/carbon nanotube/silicon heterojunctions by local synthesis and assembly. Applied Physics Letters 89, 163510 _2006.

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Appendix:

The complete matlab codes used for the simulation are here.

Note: The codes must be run from Matlab window with COMSOL access.

 

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