Tuning Carbon Nanotube Band Gaps with Strain

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 4-

  Minot, E D ^a   Yaish, Yuval ^a   Sazonova, Vera ^a   Park, Ji Yong ^a   Brink, Markus ^a   McEuen, Paul L ^a  

^a Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

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EID: 47149086489     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.156401     Document Type: Article

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