Electroluminescence in aligned arrays of single-wall carbon nanotubes with asymmetric contacts

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 7981-7988

  Xie, Xu ^a   Islam, Ahmad E ^a   Wahab, Muhammad A ^b   Ye, Lina ^a,d   Ho, Xinning ^a,e   Alam, Muhammad A ^b   Rogers, John A ^a,c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

asymmetric contact; electroluminescence; electron hole recombination; exciton; luminescence quenching; Single wall carbon nanotube

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED ARRAYS; ELECTRON-HOLE RECOMBINATION; HIGH CURRENTS; HIGH QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; HORIZONTAL ARRAYS; LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES; LOW CURRENT THRESHOLDS; LUMINESCENCE QUENCHING; METAL CONTACTS; NANO SCALE; PHOTON EMISSIONS; TERMINAL GEOMETRY;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; EXCITONS; LIGHT; QUENCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LUMINESCENCE; MICROELECTRODE; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; LUMINESCENCE; MICROELECTRODES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 84866646518     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3025496     Document Type: Article

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