Photocurrent Spectroscopy of (n, m) Sorted Solution-Processed Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 9324-9331

  Engel, Michael ^a,d   Moore, Katherine E ^a,b   Alam, Asiful ^a   Dehm, Simone ^a   Krupke, Ralph ^a,c   Flavel, Benjamin S ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Institute for NanoScale Science and Technology   (Australia)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube; chirality sorted; spectrally resolved photocurrent; supercontinuum light source

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CHIRALITY; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOTUBES; PHOTOCURRENTS;

DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS; MEASUREMENTS OF; PHOTOCURRENT SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOCURRENT SPECTRUM; PHOTORESPONSES; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; SOURCE MATERIAL; SUPERCONTINUUM LIGHT SOURCE;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84910126828     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn503278d     Document Type: Article

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