Theoretical investigations on thermal light emission from metallic carbon nanotubes

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 682-688

  Ouyang, Yijian ^a   Mann, David ^b   Dai, Hongjie ^b   Guo, Jing ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Device simulation; Excited emission; Optoelectronic devices; Thermal effects

Indexed keywords

CARRIER TRANSPORT; LIGHT EMISSION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

DEVICE SIMULATION; EXCITED EMISSION; METALLIC SUBBAND; RADIATIVE CARRIER RECOMBINATION; THERMAL LIGHT EMISSION (TLE);

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 36348970676     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2007.907253     Document Type: Article

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