Temperature dependence of carbon nanofiber resistance

Toshishige Yamada1, Hisashi Yabutani, Tsutomu Saito

  • 1Center for Nanostructures, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053, USA. tyamada@scu.edu

Nanotechnology
|June 11, 2010
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