Controlled growth and electrical properties of heterojunctions of carbon nanotubes and silicon nanowires

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6731, 1999, Pages 48-51

  Hu, Jiangtao ^a   Ouyang, Min ^a   Yang, Peidong ^b   Lieber, Charles M ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CARBON; CATALYSIS; NANOTUBES; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; SEMICONDUCTOR METAL BOUNDARIES; SILICON;

NANOWIRES;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 0033529007     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/19941     Document Type: Article

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