Optical gap measurements on individual boron nitride nanotubes by electron energy loss spectroscopy

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 274-282

  Arenal, Raul ^a   Stéphan, Odile ^b   Kociak, Mathieu ^b   Taverna, Dario ^b,c   Loiseau, Annick ^a   Colliex, Christian ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Boron nitride; Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS); Low loss; Nanotubes; Optical gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 44149127019     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927608080331     Document Type: Article

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