Effects of gas adsorption and collisions on electrical transport in single-walled carbon nanotubes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1096-1099

  Sumanasekera, G U ^a   Adu, C K W ^a   Fang, S ^b   Eklund, P C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CarboLex Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CARBON; DEGASSING; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FERMI LEVEL; GAS ADSORPTION; HYDROGEN; NITROGEN; PROBES; THERMOELECTRICITY;

DEGASSED METALLIC TUBES; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT; FOUR PROBE RESISTANCE; GAS COLLISION; SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 0034224250     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1096     Document Type: Article

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