Determination of the small band gap of carbon nanotubes using the ambipolar random telegraph signal

Nano Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1333-1336

  Liu, Fei ^a   Bao, Mingqiang ^a   Wang, Kang L ^a   Liu, Xiaolei ^b   Li, Chao ^b   Zhou, Chongwu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND GAP; ELECTRON CONDUCTION; METAL SOURCE; RANDOM TELEGRAPH SIGNAL (RTS);

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COULOMB BLOCKADE; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONS; RELIABILITY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOTUBES, CARBON; TEMPERATURE; TRANSISTORS;

EID: 23144442138     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl050578c     Document Type: Article

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