The nature of radiative transitions in O-doped boron nitride nanotubes

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4839-4845

  Gou, Gaoyang ^a   Pan, Bicai ^a,b   Sh, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBES; BORON OXIDES; FIRST PRINCIPLE CALCULATIONS; GAP STATE; RADIATIVE TRANSITIONS; STRUCTURAL PATTERN; STRUCTURAL UNIT; SUBSTITUTIONAL IMPURITIES; VIBRATIONAL PROPERTIES;

BORON; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; IMPURITIES; ISOTOPES; NANOTUBES; NITRIDES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OXYGEN; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS;

BORON NITRIDE;

BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED SPECTROMETRY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 67949092683     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja809550u     Document Type: Article

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