Realization of pristine and locally tunable one-dimensional electron systems in carbon nanotubes

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 569-574

  Waissman, J ^a,b   Honig, M ^a   Pecker, S ^a   Benyamini, A ^a   Hamo, A ^a   Ilani, S ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; ELECTRONS; TRAPPED IONS; YARN;

CONDENSED MATTER SYSTEM; CONFINEMENT POTENTIAL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON SYSTEMS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL POTENTIAL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS; SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUIT; TRANSPORT CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSPORT EXPERIMENTS;

HAMILTONIANS;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84881359437     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2013.143     Document Type: Article

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