Mesoscopic transport in chemically doped carbon nanotubes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 25 I, 2004, Pages

  Latil, Sylvain ^a,d   Roche, Stephan ^b   Mayou, Didier ^c   Charlier, Jean Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; HAMILTONIANS; IMPURITIES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NITROGEN; POLYNOMIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

BORON-DOPED NANOTUBES; ELASTIC SCATTERING; MESOSCOPIC TRANSPORT; NITROGEN-DOPED NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 3442893710     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.256805     Document Type: Article

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