Reversible electromechanical characteristics of carbon nanotubes under local-probe manipulation

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6788, 2000, Pages 769-772

  Tombler, Thomas W ^a   Zhou, Chongwu ^a   Alexseyev, Leo ^a   Kong, Jing ^a   Dai, Hongjie ^a   Liu, Lei ^b   Jayanthi, C S ^b   Tang, Meijie ^c   Wu, Shi Yu ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANICS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034660575     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35015519     Document Type: Article

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