Electrically driven thermal light emission from individual single-walled carbon nanotubes

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 33-38

  Mann, David ^a   Kato, Y K ^a   Kinkhabwala, Anika ^a   Pop, Eric ^a,b   Cao, Jien ^a   Wang, Xinran ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Wang, Qian ^a   Guo, Jing ^c   Dai, Hongjie ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOTUBES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; YARN;

ELECTRONIC TEMPERATURE; INTER-BAND TRANSITION; MULTI-WALLED NANOTUBES; NON-RADIATIVE RELAXATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNTS); SPECTRAL TRANSITIONS; VAN HOVE SINGULARITIES;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 33846846132     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2006.169     Document Type: Article

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