Orbital Kondo effect in carbon nanotubes

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7032, 2005, Pages 484-488

  Jarillo Herrero, Pablo ^a   Kong, Jing ^a,b   Van Der Zant, Herre S J ^a   Dekker, Cees ^a   Kouwenhoven, Leo P ^a   De Franceschi, Silvano ^a,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Massachusetts Inst of Technology ^*  (United States)

^c LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ARTIFICIAL SINGLE-IMPURITY KONDO SYSTEMS; DELOCALIZED ELECTRONS; KONDO EFFECTS; KONDO RESONANCE;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; METAL;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; DEVICE; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON; ENERGY; MAGNETIC FIELD; OSCILLATION; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHYSICS; POLARIZATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 16444381553     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03422     Document Type: Article

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