Nanoelectronics from the bottom up

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 841-850

  Lu, Wei ^a   Lieber, Charles M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DEMULTIPLEXING; MATERIALS SCIENCE; NANOELECTRONICS; NANOWIRES;

CROSSBAR MOTIF; RESISTANCE-CHANGE MEMORY DEVICES; TERABIT-SCALE DENSITY;

MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SEMICONDUCTOR;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTORS; TRANSISTORS;

EID: 35748932911     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2028     Document Type: Article

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