Bending-induced conductance increase in individual semiconductor nanowires and nanobelts

Nano Research

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 553-557

  Han, Xiaobing ^a   Jing, Guangyin ^a   Zhang, Xinzheng ^a   Ma, Renmin ^a   Song, Xuefeng ^a   Xu, Jun ^a   Liao, Zhimin ^a   Wang, Ning ^b   Yu, Dapeng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bending strain; Conductance enhancement; Piezoresistance; ZnO nanowires

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350677142     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-009-9053-4     Document Type: Article

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