Electrical contacts to molecular layers by nanotransfer printing

Nano Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 913-917

  Loo, Yueh Lin ^a,b   Lang, David V ^a   Rogers, John A ^a   Hsu, Julia W P ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILVER;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONICS; EVALUATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; NANOPARTICLE;

EID: 0141629833     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl034207c     Document Type: Article

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