Coupled study by TEM/EELS and STM/STS of electronic properties of C- and CNx-nanotubes

Comptes Rendus Physique

Volumn 12, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 909-920

  Lin, Hong ^a,b   Lagoute, Jérôme ^b   Repain, Vincent ^b   Chacon, Cyril ^b   Girard, Yann ^b   Lauret, Jean Sébastien ^c   Arenal, Raul ^a,d   Ducastelle, François ^a   Rousset, Sylvie ^b   Loiseau, Annick ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DE PHOTONIQUE QUANTIQUE ET MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^d Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; EELS; STM STS

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955170649     PISSN: 16310705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2011.10.013     Document Type: Article

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