Temperature dependence of the band gap of semiconducting carbon nanotubes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Capaz, Rodrigo B ^a,b,c   Spataru, Catalin D ^b,c   Tangney, Paul ^b,c   Cohen, Marvin L ^b,c   Louie, Steven G ^b,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON-PHONON COUPLING; LOWEST-ENERGY OPTICAL PHONON MODES; OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS; SEMICONDUCTING CARBON NANOTUBES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ENERGY GAP; PHONONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; VECTORS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 18044387804     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.036801     Document Type: Article

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