Carbon nanotube intramolecular junctions

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6759, 1999, Pages 273-276

  Zhen, Yao ^a   Postma, Henk W Ch ^a   Balents, Leon ^b   Dekker, Cees ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; METAL; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; DEVICE; DIODE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRONICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; TUBE;

EID: 0033581905     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/46241     Document Type: Article

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