Impact of carbon nanotube length on electron transport in aligned carbon nanotube networks

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Lee, Jeonyoon ^a   Stein, Itai Y ^a   Devoe, Mackenzie E ^a   Lewis, Diana J ^a   Lachman, Noa ^a   Kessler, Seth S ^b   Buschhorn, Samuel T ^a   Wardle, Brian L ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b METIS DESIGN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CARBON; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ELECTRONS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; YARN;

ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES; CNT NETWORKS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; NEGATIVE TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT OF RESISTANCES; TUNNELING MODELS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84923899881     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4907608     Document Type: Article

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