Carbon-nanotube photonics and optoelectronics

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 341-350

  Avouris, Phaedon ^a   Freitag, Marcus ^a   Perebeinos, Vasili ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLISTIC CONDUCTIONS; BAND-GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; DISSOCIATION ENERGIES; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; EXTERNAL FIELDS; NON-RADIATIVE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL (1D) SYSTEM; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; EXCITED STATES; LIGHT SOURCES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 44849104928     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.94     Document Type: Review

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