Broken symmetry and pseudogaps in ropes of carbon nanotubes

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6666, 1998, Pages 466-468

  Delaney, Paul ^a,b   Choi, Hyoung Joon ^a,b,c   Ihm, Jisoon ^a,b,c   Louie, Steven G ^a,b   Cohen, Marvin L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

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NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOMETRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0542426920     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35099     Document Type: Article

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