Photophysics of carbon nanotubes in organic polymer-toluene dispersions: Emission and excitation satellites and relaxation pathways

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Lebedkin, Sergei ^a   Hennrich, Frank ^a   Kiowski, Oliver ^a,b   Kappes, Manfred M ^a,b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

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EID: 43049122087     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.165429     Document Type: Article

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