Medium-scale carbon nanotube thin-film integrated circuits on flexible plastic substrates

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7203, 2008, Pages 495-500

  Cao, Qing ^a   Kim, Hoon Sik ^b   Pimparkar, Ninad ^c   Kulkarni, Jaydeep P ^c   Wang, Congjun ^b   Shim, Moonsub ^b   Roy, Kaushik ^c   Alam, Muhammad A ^c   Rogers, John A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; PLASTIC;

PLASTIC; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRONICS; FILM; GEOMETRY; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VELOCITY;

EID: 47949116903     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07110     Document Type: Article

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