Short-wavelength electroluminescence from single-walled carbon nanotubes with high bias voltage

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1215-1222

  Hibino, Norihito ^a,b   Suzuki, Satoru ^b   Wakahara, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Kobayashi, Yoshihiro ^b   Sato, Tetsuya ^a   Maki, Hideyuki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Bio Medical Informatics Research Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

blackbody radiation; carbon nanotubes; electroluminescence; electron and hole injection; field effect transistors; impact excitation; thermal effect

Indexed keywords

AMBIPOLAR; AMBIPOLAR CHARACTERISTICS; BLACK BODY RADIATION; CARBON NANOTUBE FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS; CONDUCTION TYPE; CURRENT HEATING; DEVICE TEMPERATURE; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE EMISSION; EXCITATION MECHANISMS; HIGH VACUUM; HOLE INJECTION; IMPACT EXCITATION; OXIDATION DAMAGE; P-TYPE; PRODUCTION RATES; SCHOTTKY BARRIERS; SHORT-WAVELENGTH; SHORT-WAVELENGTH EMISSIONS; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT;

ANTENNA RADIATION; BIAS VOLTAGE; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ELECTRON INJECTION; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 79951908653     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1028373     Document Type: Article

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