Nanomechanical oscillations in a single-C60 transistor

Nature

Volumn 407, Issue 6800, 2000, Pages 57-60

  Park, Hongkun ^a,b,c   Park, Jiwoong ^a   Lim, Andrew K L ^a   Anderson, Erik H ^b   Alivisatos, A Paul ^a,b   McEuen, Paul L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GOLD;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 0034618560     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35024031     Document Type: Article

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