Carbon nanotube quantum dots as highly sensitive terahertz-cooled spectrometers

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3097-3100

  Rinzan, M ^a   Jenkins, G ^b   Drew, H D ^b   Shafranjuk, S ^c   Barbara, P ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; nonequilibrium cooling; photon assisted tunneling; quantum dots; terahertz detectors

Indexed keywords

BROAD BANDS; CARBON NANOTUBE QUANTUM DOTS; COULOMB OSCILLATION PEAK; FREQUENCY RANGES; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; NON EQUILIBRIUM; PHOTON-ASSISTED TUNNELING; QUANTUM DETECTORS; RADIATION-INDUCED; SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS; SCIENTIFIC TOOL; SECURITY SCREENING; SINGLE ELECTRON TUNNELING; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ DETECTORS; TERAHERTZ GAP; TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

ANTENNAS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM DOTS; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84862291330     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl300975h     Document Type: Article

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