A microcavity-controlled, current-driven, on-chip nanotube emitter at infrared wavelengths

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 609-613

  Xia, Fengnian ^a   Steiner, Mathias ^a   Lin, Yu Ming ^a   Avouris, Phaedon ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; MICROCAVITIES; NANOPHOTONICS; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; YARN;

CURRENT INJECTIONS; DIAMETER DEPENDENT; EXCITONIC TRANSITION; INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION; NANOPHOTONIC DEVICES; SEMI-CONDUCTING NANOTUBES; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBES;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; INFRARED RADIATION; KINETICS; LUMINESCENCE; POSITRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 53549135461     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2008.241     Document Type: Article

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