High-throughput optical imaging and spectroscopy of individual carbon nanotubes in devices

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 917-922

  Liu, Kaihui ^a   Hong, Xiaoping ^a   Zhou, Qin ^a   Jin, Chenhao ^a   Li, Jinghua ^b   Zhou, Weiwei ^b   Liu, Jie ^b   Wang, Enge ^c   Zettl, Alex ^a,d   Wang, Feng ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; CHIRALITY; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NANOTUBES; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE; QUANTUM OPTICS; SUBSTRATES; YARN;

ELECTRON-ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTROSTATIC DOPING; IN-SITU CHARACTERIZATION; IN-SITU SPECTROSCOPY; NANOTUBE CHIRALITIES; NANOTUBE ELECTRONICS; SUPERCONTINUUM LASER; ULTRA-FAST DYNAMICS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; ILLUMINATION; MICROSCOPY; POLARIZATION BASED MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPERCONTINUUM LASER ILLUMINATION;

ELECTRONS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; OPTICAL IMAGING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84890546656     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2013.227     Document Type: Article

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