Carbon Nanotubes as Molecular Quantum Wires

1999/05/01 by Cees Dekker · 1,413 citations
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paper · doi:10.1063/1.882658

published in Physics Today 52(5), 22-28 (AIP Publishing)

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Abstract

Carbon nanotubes are cylindrical molecules with a diameter of as little as 1 nanometer and a length up to many micrometers. They consist of only carbon atoms, and can essentially be thought of as a single layer of graphite that has been wrapped into a cylinder, (See figure 1 and the article by Thomas Ebbesen in PHYSICS TODAY, June 1996, page 26).

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