Electron transport in very clean, as-grown suspended carbon nanotubes

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 745-749

  Cao, Jien ^a   Wang, Qian ^a   Dai, Hongjie ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ENERGY GAP; GATES (TRANSISTOR); MAGNETIC FIELDS;

BANDGAP; METAL CONTACTS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 25844496187     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1478     Document Type: Article

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