Current-voltage characteristics of carbon nanotubes with substitutional nitrogen

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 1-5

  Kaun, Chao Cheng ^a   Larade, Brian ^a   Mehrez, Hatem ^a   Taylor, Jeremy ^a,b   Guo, Hong ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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EID: 84887169961     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.65.205416     Document Type: Article

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