Selective Cap Opening in Carbon Nanotubes Driven by Laser-Induced Coherent Phonons

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2004, Pages

  Dumitricǎ, Traian ^a,b   Garcia, Martin E ^a,c   Jeschke, Harald O ^d   Yakobson, Boris I ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DIMERS; HAMILTONIANS; LASER PULSES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHONONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ATOMIC THERMAL MOTION; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS (MD) SIMULATIONS; VALENCE ELECTRONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 2342462259     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.117401     Document Type: Article

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