Optical and electrochemical properties of single-walled carbon nanotube arrays attached to silicon (100) surfaces

Fullerenes Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 18-29

  Yu, Jingxian ^a   Flavel, Benjamin S ^a   Shapter, Joseph G ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coupling effects; Electrochemistry; Fluorescence emission; Silicon; Single walled carbon nanotubes; Surface attachment

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MONOLAYERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SUBSTRATES;

COUPLING EFFECTS; FLUORESCENCE EMISSIONS; SILICON SURFACES; SURFACE ATTACHMENT;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 38149099951     PISSN: 1536383X     EISSN: 15364046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15363830701779299     Document Type: Article

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