Room-temperature transistor based on a single carbon nanotube

Nature

Volumn 393, Issue 6680, 1998, Pages 49-52

  Tans, Sander J ^a   Verschueren, Alwin R M ^a   Dekker, Cees ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ELECTRONICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032492884     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29954     Document Type: Article

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