Many-body effects in electronic bandgaps of carbon nanotubes measured by scanning tunnelling spectroscopy

Nature Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 235-238

  Lin, H ^a,b   Lagoute, J ^a   Repain, V ^a   Chacon, C ^a   Girard, Y ^a   Lauret, J S ^c   Ducastelle, F ^b   Loiseau, A ^b   Rousset, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DE PHOTONIQUE QUANTIQUE ET MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPY; YARN;

CONTINUOUS TRANSITIONS; ELECTRONIC BAND GAPS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS; MANY-BODY INTERACTIONS; OPTICAL EXPERIMENTS; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; SCANNING TUNNELLING SPECTROSCOPY; SEMI-CONDUCTING NANOTUBES;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 77249160749     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2624     Document Type: Article

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