Brightening of carbon nanotube photoluminescence through the incorporation of sp 3 defects

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 840-845

  Piao, Yanmei ^a   Meany, Brendan ^a   Powell, Lyndsey R ^a   Valley, Nicholas ^b   Kwon, Hyejin ^a   Schatz, George C ^b   Wang, Yuhuang ^a,c  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; LUMINESCENCE; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM THEORY;

ELECTRONS; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84884844202     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1711     Document Type: Article

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