Addition energies of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes as quantum dots: The role of symmetry

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2003, Pages

  Ke, San Huang ^a   Baranger, Harold U ^a   Yang, Weitao ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; FULLERENES; OSCILLATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ADDITION ENERGIES (AE);

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0142120727     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.116803     Document Type: Article

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