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Carbon Nanotube Doping by Acceptors. The p–п Junction Formation

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Doping of Carbon Nanotubes

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This chapter investigates the interaction of boron with CNTs. A brief analysis of the scientific literature shows that for data for calculation of boron concentration, one can use formulas from the previous chapter.

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    Alexandr Saurov, Sergey Bulyarskiy & Alexandr Pavlov

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Saurov, A., Bulyarskiy, S., Pavlov, A. (2017). Carbon Nanotube Doping by Acceptors. The p–п Junction Formation. In: Bulyarskiy, S., Saurov, A. (eds) Doping of Carbon Nanotubes. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55883-7_6

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