Size and mobility of excitons in (6, 5) carbonnanotubes

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 54-58

  Lüer, Larry ^a   Hoseinkhani, Sajjad ^a   Polli, Dario ^a   Crochet, Jared ^b   Hertel, Tobias ^b   Lanzani, Guglielmo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; EXCITED STATES; INFRARED DEVICES; PHASE SPACE METHODS; YARN;

ELECTRON-HOLE CORRELATION; EXCITED-STATE DYNAMICS; EXCITON-EXCITON ANNIHILATION; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; NONLINEAR SPECTROSCOPY; OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; POPULATION RELAXATION; QUASI-ONE DIMENSIONAL;

EXCITONS;

EID: 58149291839     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1149     Document Type: Article

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