High conductivity carbon nanotube wires from radial densification and ionic doping

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 18, 2010, Pages

  Alvarenga, Jack ^a   Jarosz, Paul R ^a   Schauerman, Chris M ^a   Moses, Brian T ^a   Landi, Brian J ^a   Cress, Cory D ^b   Raffaelle, Ryne P ^c  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSIFICATION PROCESS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; IONIC DOPING; SIMULTANEOUS USE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TUNNELING BARRIER;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ION EXCHANGE; WIRE;

WIRE DRAWING;

EID: 78649302806     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3506703     Document Type: Article

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