Selective alignment of carbon nanotubes on sapphire surfaces: Bond formation between nanotubes and substrates

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Jeong, Sukmin ^a,b   Oshiyama, Atsushi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOND FORMATION; C ATOMS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DIRECTIONS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; IONIC BONDS; SAPPHIRE SUBSTRATES; SAPPHIRE SURFACE; STOICHIOMETRIC SURFACES; TOTAL-ENERGY CALCULATIONS;

ALIGNMENT; ALUMINUM; CALCULATIONS; CARBON NANOTUBES; SAPPHIRE;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 79961203439     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.065501     Document Type: Article

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