Effect of coiling on the electronic properties along single-wall carbon nanotubes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 3857-3859

  Castrucci, P ^a   Scarselli, M ^a   De Crescenzi, M ^a   El Khakani, M A ^b   Rosei, F ^b   Braidy, N ^b   Yi, J H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; GRAPHITE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; STABILITY;

BENDING EFFECTS; COILED NANOTUBES; HIGHLY ORIENTED PYROLITIC GRAPHITE (HOPG); SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCNTS);

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 9744247550     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1809277     Document Type: Article

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