Nanoelectromechanical coupling in fullerene peapods probed by resonant electrical transport experiments

Nature Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Utko, Pawel ^a   Ferone, Raffaello ^b,c   Krive, Ilya V ^c,d   Shekhter, Robert I ^c   Jonson, Mats ^c,e,f   Monthioux, Marc ^g   Noé, Laure ^g   Nygård, Jesper ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d B VERKIN INSTITUTE FOR LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING   (Ukraine)

^e HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^g CEMES CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; NANOPEAPOD; QUANTUM DOT; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; NANOELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; OSCILLATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VIBRATION;

EID: 78650168662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1034     Document Type: Article

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