Electroluminescence from a single nanotube-molecule-nanotube junction

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 863-867

  Marquardt, Christoph W ^a   Grunder, Sergio ^b   Błaszczyk, Alfred ^a,c   Dehm, Simone ^a   Hennrich, Frank ^a   Löhneysen, Hilbert V ^a   Mayor, Marcel ^a,b   Krupke, Ralph ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c POZNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; MOLECULES; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; SOLID STATE DEVICES; YARN;

ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; FUNCTIONAL POSSIBILITIES; METALLIC SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; NANOSCALE ELECTRODES; NANOTUBE JUNCTIONS; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; SINGLE NANOTUBES;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOCRYSTAL; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTRONICS; LUMINESCENCE; MICROSCOPE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID STATE;

EID: 78650001927     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2010.230     Document Type: Article

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