Tuning carbon nanotube band gaps with strain

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 15, 2003, Pages

  Minot, E D ^a   Yaish, Yuval ^a   Sazonova, Vera ^a   Park, Ji Yong ^a   Brink, Markus ^a   McEuen, Paul L ^a  

^a Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ENERGY GAP; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAIN;

BAND GAP; STRAIN MODULATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0038201867     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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