Mechanical and electrical properties of nanosized contacts on single-walled carbon nanotubes

Advanced Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 573-576

  De Pablo, Pedro J ^a   Martínez, María T ^b   Colchero, Jaime ^a   Gómez Herrero, Julio ^a   Maser, Wolfgang K ^b   Benito, Ana M ^b   Muñoz, Edgar ^b   Baró, Arturo M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE CARBOQUÍMICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY (SFM); SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWNT);

NANOTUBES;

EID: 0343602825     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4095(200004)12:8<573::AID-ADMA573>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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