Defects, quasibound states, and quantum conductance in metallic carbon nanotubes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 13, 2000, Pages

  Choi, Hyoung Joon ^a   Ihm, Jisoon ^a   Louie, Steven G ^b   Cohen, Marvin L ^c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALLIC CARBON NANOTUBES; QUANTUM CONDUCTANCE; QUASIBOND STATES; STRUCTURAL DEFECTS;

BORON; DEFECTS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRONS; IMPURITIES; NITROGEN; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 3342918541     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.2917     Document Type: Article

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