Electron-hole symmetry in a semiconducting carbon nanotube quantum dot

Nature

Volumn 429, Issue 6990, 2004, Pages 389-392

  Jarillo Herrero, Pablo ^a,b   Sapmaz, Saml ^a   Dekker, Cees ^a   Kouwenhoven, Leo P ^a,b   Van Der Zant, Herre S J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONS; FERMI LEVEL;

ELECTRONIC PHENOMENA; FERMI SEA;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; ENERGY; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 2642523738     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02568     Document Type: Article

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