Alignment dependence of one-dimensional electronic hopping transport observed in films of highly aligned, ultralong single-walled carbon nanotubes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 18, 2009, Pages

  Pint, Cary L ^a,b   Xu, Ya Qiong ^c   Morosan, Emilia ^a,b   Hauge, Robert H ^a,b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS-GROWN; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITIES; ELECTRON HOPPING; ELECTRONIC HOPPING; FILM CONDUCTIVITIES; HOPPING CONDUCTIONS; HOPPING MECHANISMS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PRISTINE FILMS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TRANSPORT MECHANISMS; VACUUM-ANNEALING;

ALIGNMENT; CARBON FILMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 65549104285     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3130225     Document Type: Article

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