High-field electrical transport in single-wall carbon nanotubes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 13, 2000, Pages

  Yao, Zhen ^a   Kane, Charles L ^b   Dekker, Cees ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW-RESISTANCE CONTACTS (LRC); MICROWAVE FREQUENCY; PHASE BOUNDARY; PLASMA FREQUENCY;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FERMI LEVEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHONONS; PLASMAS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 17944383013     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.2941     Document Type: Article

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