Identification of nitrogen dopants in single-walled carbon nanotubes by scanning tunneling microscopy

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 7219-7226

  Tison, Yann ^a,b   Lin, Hong ^a,b   Lagoute, Jéroîme ^a   Repain, Vincent ^a   Chacon, Cyril ^a   Girard, Yann ^a   Rousset, Sylvie ^a   Henrard, Luc ^c   Zheng, Bing ^c   Susi, Toma ^d   Kauppinen, Esko I ^d   Ducastelle, François ^b   Loiseau, Annick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; density functional theory; electronic structures; nitrogen doping; scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC CONFIGURATION; NITROGEN-DOPING; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY AND SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPY AND SPECTROSCOPY; SEMI-CONDUCTING NANOTUBES; SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENTS; SUBSTITUTIONAL NITROGEN; VAN HOVE SINGULARITIES;

ATOMS; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; POINT DEFECTS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

NITROGEN;

EID: 84883240933     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4026146     Document Type: Article

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