Sorting single-walled carbon nanotubes by strain-based electrical burn-off

Carbon

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2169-2174

  Zheng, Fu zhong ^a,b   Zhou, Zhao ying ^a   Yang, Xing ^a   Tang, Yi ke ^b,c   Wu, Ying ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND GAPS; ELECTRICAL BURN; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; HIGH SYMMETRY; METALLIC SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; STRAIN PROPERTIES; STRAIN SENSITIVITY;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

TENSILE STRAIN;

EID: 77950516179     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2010.02.013     Document Type: Article

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