Temperature-mediated growth of single-walled carbon-nanotube intramolecular junctions

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 293-296

  Yao, Yagang ^a   Li, Qingwen ^b   Zhang, Jin ^a   Liu, Ran ^a   Jiao, Liying ^a   Zhu, Yuntian T ^b   Liu, Zhongfan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

INTRAMOLECULAR JUNCTIONS; SILICON-BASED TECHNOLOGY; TEMPERATURE-MEDIATED GROWTH;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 34047098394     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1865     Document Type: Article

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