Giant piezoresistance effect in silicon nanowires

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 42-46

  He, Rongrui ^a   Yang, Peidong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOTUBE; SILICON;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMPEDANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; LETTER; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC WIRING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; SILICON;

EID: 34248208452     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2006.53     Document Type: Article

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