Individual single-wall carbon nanotubes as quantum wires

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6624, 1997, Pages 474-477

  Tans, Sander J ^a   Devoret, Michel H ^a,c   Dai, Hongjie ^b   Thess, Andreas ^b   Smalley, Richard E ^b   Geerligs, L J ^a   Dekker, Cees ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SERVICE DE PHYSIQUE DE L ETAT CONDENSÉ   (France)

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NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 0007178040     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386474a0     Document Type: Article

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