Radiative lifetime of excitons in carbon nanotubes

Nano Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2495-2499

  Perebeinos, Vasili ^a   Tersoff, J ^a   Avouris, Phaedon ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETHE-SALPETER EQUATION; DIAMETER-DEPENDENT ENERGY SPLITTINGS; ELECTRON-HOLE CORRELATIONS; INTRINSIC PHONONS;

CARBON; ELECTRONS; EXCITONS; PHONONS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON; HALF LIFE TIME; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONS; HALF-LIFE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 30644470157     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl051828s     Document Type: Article

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