Fabrication of a sexithiophene semiconducting wire: Nanoshaving with an atomic force microscope tip

Advanced Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 285-288

  Chwang, Anna B ^a   Granstrom, Eric L ^a   Frisbie, C Daniel ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHARGE CARRIERS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

SEMICONDUCTING WIRES; SEXITHIOPHENE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES;

EID: 0033903037     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4095(200002)12:4<285::AID-ADMA285>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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