Observation of the giant Stark effect in boron-nitride nanotubes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Ishigami, Masa ^a,b   Sau, Jay Deep ^a,b   Aloni, Shaul ^a,b   Cohen, Marvin L ^a,b   Zettl, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON-NITRIDE NANOTUBES (BNNT); GIANT STARK EFFECTS; LOCAL DENSITY APPROXIMATION (LDA); TIP-GOLD SUBSTRATES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; NANOTUBES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

BORON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 18144423988     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.056804     Document Type: Article

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