Quantum transport in carbon nanotubes

Lecture Notes in Physics

Volumn 680, Issue , 2006, Pages 351-380

  Thune, Elsa ^a   Strunk, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 33749032807     PISSN: 00758450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-31514-4_14     Document Type: Article

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