Electronic structure of carbon nanotubes with ultrahigh curvature

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4515-4522

  Plank, Wolfgang ^a   Pfeiffer, Rudolf ^a   Schaman, Christoph ^a   Kuzmany, Hans ^a   Calvaresi, Matteo ^b   Zerbetto, Francesco ^b   Meyer, Jannik ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atomic resolution TEM; Electron correlation; Electronic structure; Resonance Raman; Ultrahigh curvature carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; CARBON RICH; DFT CALCULATION; EXTENDED TIGHT BINDINGS; FERROCENES; INNER TUBES; MANY ELECTRON; PARTIAL FILLING; RADIAL BREATHING MODE; RESONANCE RAMAN; RESONANCE RAMAN SCATTERING; RESONANCE WIDTH; TEM; TIGHT-BINDING CALCULATIONS; TRANSITION ENERGY; ULTRAHIGH CURVATURE CARBON NANOTUBES; VIBRATIONAL STRUCTURES; VISIBLE SPECTRAL RANGE;

BINDING ENERGY; CARBON NANOTUBES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON CORRELATIONS; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON TUBES; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRONS; IRON COMPOUNDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RESONANCE; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 78649698371     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100615d     Document Type: Article

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