Scanning tunneling microscope investigation of carbon nanotubes produced by catalytic decomposition of acetylene

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 12490-12498

  Biro L ^a   Lazarescu, S ^b   Lambin, Ph ^b   Thiry, P ^b   Fonseca, A ^b   Nagy, J ^b   Lucas, A ^b  

^a WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

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EID: 0004038124     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.56.12490     Document Type: Article

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