Networks of Semiconducting SWNTs: Contribution of Midgap Electronic States to the Electrical Transport

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2270-2279

  Itkis, Mikhail E ^a,b   Pekker, Aron ^a,b   Tian, Xiaojuan ^a,b   Bekyarova, Elena ^a,b   Haddon, Robert C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

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EID: 84939548095     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: 15204898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00107     Document Type: Article

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