Super-small energy gaps of single-walled carbon nanotube strands

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Zhu, Hongwei ^a   Zhao, Guang Lin ^b   Masarapu, Charan ^a   Young, David P ^a   Wei, Bingqing ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY OF STATES (DOS); RESISTANCE MEASUREMENTS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (CWCNT); SUPER-SMALL ENERGY GAPS;

BAND STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ENERGY GAP; FERMI LEVEL; GRAPHITE; METALLOIDS; QUANTUM THEORY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 20844454356     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1927269     Document Type: Article

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