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Carbon nanotubes

A brighter future

The demonstration of an LED made from a single electrostatically doped carbon nanotube p–n junction with dramatically improved light-emission efficiency marks an important advance for carbon nanotube photonics.

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Figure 1: Design and principle of operation of the new carbon-nanotube LED.

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Hertel, T. A brighter future. Nature Photon 4, 77–78 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.278

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