Scanning tunnelling microscopy of carbon nanotubes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1823, 2004, Pages 2187-2203

  Meunier, Vincent ^a   Lambin, Philippe ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; STM images; STS spectra

Indexed keywords

EID: 7244248968     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2004.1435     Document Type: Short Survey

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