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Phys. Rev. B 53, 13996–13999 (1996)

ESR study of potassium-doped aligned carbon nanotubes

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O. Chauvet, G. Baumgartner, M. Carrard, W. Bacsa, D. Ugarte*, Walt A. de Heer, and L. Forró
Department of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Received 18 September 1995; published in the issue dated 1 June 1996

Opened, potassium-doped, and aligned carbon nanotubes were studied by electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements. Moderate K doping lowers the g factor of the pristine sample to 2.0028, and erases all the angular dependence. The Pauli susceptibility increases a factor of 3 upon doping, but the considerable Curie component shows that the tubes have suffered serious damage during the doping/depletion procedure. The temperature dependence of the ESR linewidth and g factor testifies that the K-doped tubes are still good conductors.

© 1996 The American Physical Society

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