Electronic devices based on purified carbon nanotubes grown by high-pressure decomposition of carbon monoxide

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 589-592

  Johnston, Danvers E ^a   Islam, Mohammad F ^a   Yodh, Arjun G ^a   Johnson, Alan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON NANOTUBES; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; GROWTH KINETICS; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS IN SOLIDS; MONOLAYERS; PURIFICATION;

AMPHIPHILIC MOLECULES; BACKGATE VOLTAGE; DRAIN ELECTRODES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWNT);

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 23244441121     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1427     Document Type: Article

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