Room temperature ballistic conduction in carbon nanotubes

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 106, Issue 47, 2002, Pages 12104-12118

  Poncharal, Philippe ^a,b   Berger, Claire ^a,c   Yi, Yan ^a   Wang, Z L ^a   De Heer, Walt A ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLISTICS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; LITHOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BALLISTIC CONDUCTION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0037191867     PISSN: 10895647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp021271u     Document Type: Article

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