Cross-polarized excitons in carbon nanotubes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 6797-6802

  Kilina, Svetlana ^a   Tretiak, Sergei ^a   Doorn, Stephen K ^a   Luo, Zhengtang ^b   Papadimitrakopoulos, Fotios ^b   Piryatinski, Andrei ^a   Saxena, Avadh ^a   Bishop, Alan R ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective electronic oscillator method; Exciton localization; Helical nanotube coordinates; Transverse absorption

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 44449144123     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0711646105     Document Type: Article

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