Femtosecond laser nanosurgery of defects in carbon nanotubes

Nano Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1361-1365

  Romero, Aldo H ^a   Garcia, Martin E ^b   Valencia, Felipe ^c   Terrones, Humberto ^c   Terrones, Mauricio ^c   Jeschke, Harald O ^d  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b Theoretische Physik   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO POTOSINO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y TECNOLÓGICA   (Mexico)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

ATOMIC-SCALE DEFECTS; FEMTOSECOND LASERS; NANOSURGERY; VALENCE ELECTRONS;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 23244441247     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl050626t     Document Type: Article

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