Conductivity enhancement in single-walled carbon nanotube bundles doped with K and Br

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6639, 1997, Pages 255-257

  Lee, R S ^a   Kim, H J ^a   Fischer, J E ^a   Thess, A ^b   Smalley, R E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMINE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONS; INTERCALATION COMPOUNDS; LASER ABLATION; ORGANIC CONDUCTORS; POTASSIUM; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

CONDUCTIVITY ENHANCEMENT; SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

ALKALI METAL; BROMINE; CARBON; COBALT; FERROUS CHLORIDE; METAL; NICKEL; POTASSIUM;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LASER; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; TUBE;

EID: 0031194827     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/40822     Document Type: Article

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