Prolonged spontaneous emission and dephasing of localized excitons in air-bridged carbon nanotubes

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sarpkaya, Ibrahim ^a   Zhang, Zhengyi ^b   Walden Newman, William ^a   Wang, Xuesi ^b   Hone, James ^b   Wong, Chee W ^b   Strauf, Stefan ^a  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

FULLERENE; LUMINESCENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT;

AIR; ARTICLE; ELECTRON; PHONON; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTON CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; PHYSICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTRUM;

EID: 84880274850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3152     Document Type: Article

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