Tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy of multiwalled boron nitride nanotubes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1617-1619

  Czerw, R ^a   Webster, S ^a   Carroll, D L ^a   Vieira, S M C ^b   Birkett, P R ^b   Rego, C A ^b   Roth, S ^c  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON COMPOUNDS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBES;

NANOTUBES;

EID: 0041780671     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1601308     Document Type: Article

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