A new morphology of copper 7,7,8,8-tetracyano-p-quinodimethane

Micron

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 536-542

  Liu, Yaling ^a,b   Li, Hongxiang ^a   Ji, Zhuoyu ^a,b   Kashimura, Yoshiaki ^c   Tang, Qingxin ^a,b   Furukawa, Kazuaki ^c   Torimitsu, Keiichi ^c   Hu, Wenping ^a   Zhu, Daoben ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

CuTCNQ; Nanojunction; Tubular structure

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; METHANE; MORPHOLOGY; SWITCHING;

NANOJUNCTIONS; TUBULAR STRUCTURES;

COPPER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33947140198     PISSN: 09684328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2006.07.022     Document Type: Article

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