Probing optical transitions in individual carbon nanotubes using polarized photocurrent spectroscopy

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 5649-5653

  Barkelid, Maria ^a   Steele, Gary A ^a   Zwiller, Val ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; dielectric constant; p n junction; photocurrent spectroscopy; polarization; quantum efficiency

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; BUILDING BLOCKES; ENHANCED ABSORPTION; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL RESONANCE; P-N JUNCTION; PHOTO DETECTION; PHOTOCURRENT SPECTROSCOPY; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE; PRISTINE CARBON; SEMICONDUCTING CARBON NANOTUBES;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PASSIVATION; PERMITTIVITY; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84869154512     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl302789k     Document Type: Article

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