Mott insulating state in ultraclean carbon nanotubes

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5910, 2009, Pages 106-110

  Deshpande, Vikram V ^a,b   Chandra, Bhupesh ^b   Caldwell, Robert ^b   Novikov, Dmitry S ^c   Hone, James ^b   Bockrath, Marc ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; QUANTUM DOT; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

CARBON; ELECTRON; INSULATION; METAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY; INSULATOR ELEMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; PHONON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 58149229232     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1165799     Document Type: Article

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