Piezoresistance of single-walled carbon nanotubes

TRANSDUCERS and EUROSENSORS '07 - 4th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1565-1568

  Stampfer, C ^a   Helbling, T ^a   Jungen, A ^a   Hierold, C ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Nanomechanics; Nanosensors; NEMS

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; MICROSYSTEMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPORES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; SENSORS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TRANSDUCERS;

APPLIED STRAIN; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; NANOMECHANICS; NANOSENSORS; NEMS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PIEZO-RESISTANCE; PIEZORESISTIVE GAUGE FACTORS; SINGLE-WALLED; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 50049130162     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SENSOR.2007.4300445     Document Type: Conference Paper

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