Applied physics: Bright infrared emission from electrically induced excitons in carbon nanotubes

Science

Volumn 310, Issue 5751, 2005, Pages 1171-1174

  Chen, Jia ^a   Perebeinos, Vasili ^a   Freitag, Marcus ^a   Tsang, James ^a   Fu, Qiang ^b   Liu, Jie ^b   Avouris, Phaedon ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRONS; EXCITONS; INFRARED RADIATION;

EXCITATION DENSITY; INFRARED EMISSION; UNIPOLAR OPERATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOTUBE;

PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICS; PHONON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 27944463073     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1119177     Document Type: Article

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