Valence excitations in individual single-wall carbon nanotubes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 2982-2984

  Stöckli, Thomas ^a   Bonard, Jean Marc ^a   Chatelain, André ^a   Wang, Zhong Lin ^b   Stadelmann, Pierre ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDRICAL SHELL; EXCITATION PROBABILITIES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HIGH-RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; HYDRODYNAMIC THEORY; NANOTUBE GEOMETRY; OSCILLATION MODE; PLASMON LOSS; QUASI-FREE ELECTRON; RESONANCE ENERGIES; RESONANCE MODE; SECOND ORDERS; VALENCE EXCITATIONS;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON GAS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 79956004553     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1469685     Document Type: Article

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