Novel electrical switching behaviour and logic in carbon nanotube Y-junctions

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 663-666

  Bandaru, P R ^a   Daraio, C ^a   Jin, S ^a   Rao, A M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; SWITCHING; TOPOLOGY;

CARBON-NANOTUBE MORPHOLOGY; ELECTRICAL SWITCHING; SILICON-BASED DEVICES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SEMICONDUCTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 26944450142     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1450     Document Type: Article

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