Characteristic Units

Characteristic Units

The nanowire network functions, by default, use the units described in units.py. They are also listed here. These units are used to make the calculations more stable. For example, one can change the base unit of voltage for a nanowire network using:

NWN = create_NWN()
set_characteristic_units(NWN, v0=5)

The scale of the nanowire network will be dependent on these values.

Base Units

Here, the base units are listed.

• v0 = 1 V. Voltage.
• Ron= 10 Ω. Junction resistance in the ON state.
• l0 = 7 μm. Wire length.
• D0 = 50 nm. Wire diameter
• D = 10 nm. Junction length (2x Wire coating thickness)
• rho0 = 22.6 nΩm. Wire resistivity
• mu0 = 0.01 μm² s⁻¹ V⁻¹. Ion mobility
• Roff_Ron = 160. Off-On junction resistance ratio