Large-area blown bubble films of aligned nanowires and carbon nanotubes

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 372-377

  Yu, Guihua ^a   Cao, Anyuan ^b   Lieber, Charles M ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; NANOWIRES; SINGLE CRYSTAL SURFACES; SINGLE CRYSTALS; YARN;

BLOWN FILM EXTRUSION; CONTROLLED ORIENTATION; DIRECTED ASSEMBLY; ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT; FLEXIBLE PLASTICS; HOMOGENEOUS SUSPENSIONS; SCALABLE APPROACH; SINGLE CRYSTAL WAFERS;

CARBON FILMS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOWIRE;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 34249938954     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2007.150     Document Type: Article

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