Temperature dependence of the conductance of multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2001, Pages

  Graugnard, E ^a   de Pablo, P J ^b   Walsh, B ^c   Ghosh, A W ^c   Datta, S ^c   Reifenberger, R ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0035883689     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.125407     Document Type: Article

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