Piezoresistivity of silicon quantum well wire

Nanotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 3209-3214

  Pramanik, C ^a   Banerjee, S ^b   Saha, H ^c   Sarkar, C K ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b BANGABASI COLLEGE   (India)

^c JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SILICON;

BANDSTRUCTURE; LIGHT HOLE; PIEZORESISTIVE COEFFICIENT; WIDTH DIMENSIONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 33746623983     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/17/13/022     Document Type: Article

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