Defect-assisted heavily and substitutionally boron-doped thin multiwalled carbon nanotubes using high-temperature thermal diffusion

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4454-4459

  Kim, Yoong Ahm ^a   Aoki, Shunta ^b   Fujisawa, Kazunori ^b   Ko, Yong Il ^b   Yang, Kap Seung ^a   Yang, Cheol Min ^c   Jung, Yong Chae ^c   Hayashi, Takuya ^b   Endo, Morinobu ^b   Terrones, Mauricio ^b,d   Dresselhaus, Mildred S ^e  

^a Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE FILMS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; NANOTUBE ASSEMBLIES; NITROGEN PLASMA TREATMENT; THIN MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILMS; VACUUM ULTRAVIOLETS;

ATOMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); TUBES (COMPONENTS);

SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

EID: 84896822225     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp410732r     Document Type: Article

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