Photoinduced spontaneous free-carrier generation in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Park, Jaehong ^a   Reid, Obadiah G ^a,b   Blackburn, Jeffrey L ^a   Rumbles, Garry ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; TOLUENE;

CARBON; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; ELECTRODE; FULLERENE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY TRANSFER; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTON; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM YIELD; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 84946595503     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9809     Document Type: Article

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